Dean Reads Our Blog

Mad props to Governor Dean for talking about the massive corporate swindling that we recently blogged. As the WaPo reports:

Dean sought to broaden the debate over Bush's proposal to restructure Social Security to include the issue of private pensions, citing Labor Department statistics estimating that private companies underfunded their pension plans by $450 billion last year.

He suggested that Bush is responsible for the failure of private industry to protect those pensions. "The president wants to take away our Social Security," he said, "and then he's going to take away the private pension plans, too? What does he think ordinary Americans live on after they get to be 65 years old?"

Dean's comments are from a speech he gave at the Campaign for America's Future Conference going on this week in D.C. I highly encourage checking out their site, especially their interactive conference section, for videos, pictures, transcripts, and more from the likes of Lakoff, Dean, Edwards, and Villaraigosa.