Truth Truck makes 12,500-mile tour.Hauling more than a million petitions from senior citizens, the Social Security Truth Truck spent the spring and summer trekking across the country to dramatize dram·a·tize v. dram·a·tized, dram·a·tiz·ing, dram·a·tiz·es v.tr. 1. To adapt (a literary work) for dramatic presentation, as in a theater or on television or radio. 2. the dangers of Social Security privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned . The truck made thirty-nine stops in nineteen states. "Our coast-to-coast message is clear: Don't privatize pri·va·tize tr.v. pri·va·tized, pri·va·tiz·ing, pri·va·tiz·es To change (an industry or business, for example) from governmental or public ownership or control to private enterprise: "The strike ... Social Security," says George J. Kourpias, president of the Alliance of Retired Americans, which sponsored the tour. The Truth Truck's final stop was at the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York Hyde Park is a town located in the northwest part of Dutchess County, New York, United States, just north of the city of Poughkeepsie. The town is most famous for being the birthplace of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. . For more information, go to www.retiredamericans.org. |
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