1.   And many ultra-conservative Republicans want to privatize the system fully.

2.   A majority of the panel, divided into two groups of five and two, is pushing competing ideas on how to partially privatize the system.

3.   But the idea of privatizing the system faces stiff resistance in Congress.

4.   Democrats, meanwhile, are offering themselves as guardians of Medicare, portraying the Republicans as bent on privatizing the system.

5.   Democrats plan a press conference Monday on Social Security, attacking the GOP for a proposal to privatize the system.

6.   Eventually, the postal savings system would be privatized, according to the proposal.

7.   For them, privatizing the system makes sense.

8.   His association has long wanted the air traffic control system privatized, so that more modern equipment could be installed in the towers more quickly.

9.   I knew that the commission on Social Security reform appointed by George W. Bush would produce a slanted report, one designed to bully Congress into privatizing the system.

10.   Privatizing the system would be significant because the Finance Ministry draws on the funds to buy government bonds and lend money to state-run financial institutions.