Segurança social: "A privatização é uma solução à procura de um problema” (Paul Krugman)

René Magritte,
The Unexpected Answer, 1993

Eis alguns artigos que poderão ajudar a perceber o que está em causa no propósito de destruir a segurança social:

• John Kay, Pension 'crisis' helps create one (Financial Times, 25 de Janeiro de 2005): “People who talk of the crisis in social security help create that very crisis.”

• Paul Krugman, NOTES ON SOCIAL SECURITY: “None of this says that privatizing Social Security is necessarily a bad idea. But the way that privatization is being sold is spectacularly dishonest, and to propose privatization and huge tax cuts at the same time is spectacularly irresponsible.”

• Paul Krugman, Confusions about Social Security (Truthout, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2005): “There is a lot of confusion in the debate over Social Security privatization, much of it deliberate. This essay discusses the meaning of the trust fund, which privatizers declare either real or fictional at their convenience; the likely rate of return on private accounts, which has been greatly overstated; and the (ir)relevance of putative reductions in far future liabilities”.

• Paul Krugman, Social Security - Inventing A Crisis (New York Times, 8 de Dezembro de 2004): “Privatizing Social Security - replacing the current system, in whole or in part, with personal investment accounts - won't do anything to strengthen the system's finances. If anything, it will make things worse. Nonetheless, the politics of privatization depend crucially on convincing the public that the system is in imminent danger of collapse, that we must destroy Social Security in order to save it.”