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Bonds for babies: democrats discover the ownership society.

Publisher Reason Foundation
Publication Reason
Subject Humanities
Format Magazine/Journal
ISSN 0048-6906
Issues per Year 11
Volume 39
Issue 8
Published 2008-01-01

Role Type Name
Person Political activity Hillary Rodham Clinton
Author n/a David Weigel

You PROBABLY MISSED it, but there already was an "idea primary" in the 2008 election. It lasted two weeks and nobody won.

In September, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) strolled into a Congressional Black Caucus forum, belted "Brooklyn's in the house!" to rev up some of her backers from New York, and fielded a question about Social Security. Clinton, who typically clings to her script as if it were the last raft off the Poseidon, got a little too comfortable and started to improvise.

"I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow...

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