Bush framed Social Security privatization as anti-racist

Evidence

Bush argued that Social Security discriminates against blacks because they havea lower life expectancy (Kranish 2005); if their Social Security accounts could just be transformed into privately owned individual retirement accounts (IRAs), they could get at their money faster (presumably before they died young). — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 214

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: how racial argumentation gets weaponized to justify dismantling the welfare state — the odd marriage of diversity talk and austerity.