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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which I love so much, and was a great country when I was young, it seemed, became this monster vampire on the face of humanity- a vampire squid, to quote Matt Taibbi, sucking out the juices of all mankind. Why? It's a basic question.
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