Bush Panel's Connections to Cato

On May 2, President Bush named a 14 member panel charged with putting forth a plan to privatize social security. Cato has been advocating such a plan for over twenty years. In fact, five members of the panel have written or spoken for Cato on the topic of privatization, and two serve on Cato's Social Security Privatization Project Board of Directors. Their articles, op-eds and speeches are listed below.

Sam Beard
Sam Beard is founder and president of Economic Security 2000.

• Moderator of panel on "Women, Minorities and the Poor" at Cato's February, 2001, conference "Privatizing Social Security: Beyond the Theory."
• Remarks from a 1996 Capitol Hill event on "The Progressive Case for Social Security Privatization."

John Cogan
John Cogan is former Office of Management and Budget deputy director under President Reagan.

• Signer of Cato's "Petition Concerning Investment-Based Social Security."

Thomas Saving
Thomas Saving is a Social Security public trustee and director of the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M.

• Speaker at Cato's February, 2001, conference, "Social Security Privatization: Beyond the Theory."

Carolyn Weaver
Carolyn Weaver is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

• "Social Security: Has the Crisis Passed?"
• Signer of Cato's "Petition Concerning Investment-Based Social Security."

Tim Penny
Tim Penny is a former congressman from Minnesota.

• Excerpt of remarks from "Solving the Global Pension Crisis II: The Privatization Revolution," March 9-10, 2000, co-sponsored by Cato and The Economist with participants from 34 countries.
• Audio of remarks from "Solving the Global Pension Crisis II: The Privatization Revolution."
• "Please, Not Another Payroll Tax Hike."
• Remarks from a 1996 Capitol Hill event on "The Progressive Case for Social Security Privatization."