Clearly, Democrats need to represent the remaining 33% by showing that they still have a voice against such an idea!
But Zogby said people are against Social Security reform.
I hope it happens. And I also hope they take a hard look at the Social Security administration. A recent GAO report says this about disability overpayments to people not qualified. Also, the people who do deserve disability are waiting years, sometimes dying first, to get approved. See the comments here:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?SSDC&251
AO-04-929
United States Government Accountability Office
September 2004
DISABILITY INSURANCE
SSA Should Strengthen Its Efforts to Detect and Prevent Overpayments GAO-04-929
Highlights of GAO-04-929, a report to the Chairman, Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate
The Social Security Administration's (SSA) Disability Insurance (DI) program is one of the nation's largest cash assistance programs for disabled workers. In fiscal year 2003, the DI program provided about $70 billion in financial assistance to approximately 7.5 million disabled workers, their spouses, and dependent children. This program has grown in recent years and is poised to grow further as the baby boom generation
ages. The Senate Committee on Finance asked GAO to (1) determine the amount of overpayments in the DI program, particularly those attributable to earnings or work activity, and (2) identify any vulnerabilities in SSA's processes and policies ........`snip`
Total Overpayment Debt Is Increasing (1999-2003)
Dollars in millions 3,000
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Year
Source: GAO analysis based on SSA data.
www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-04-929.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/useftp.cgi?IPaddress=162.140.64.88&filename=d04929.txt&directory=/diskb/wais/data/gao
Then let's roll.
oh, but NO. Bush won because of either mercenary evangelicals, or osama-terrified rednecks.
YIKES!!! 67%????????? No WAAAAYYYYYY...
How can this BE? We were repeatedly told there would be wailing and riots in the streets if President Bush attempted to mess with Social Security...
I'm shocked ;)
It is time for Social Security reform. It should be privatized.
Yeah, that's for the red zone folks but what do the mensa blues think? It is really the prudent, well thought out well reasoned views of the knee jerk neocommunist, left-wing anti-Bushies that the old timey media relies on for their headlines.
Clearly, Democrats need to represent the remaining 33% by showing that they still have a voice against such an idea!
Hope this shuts the DIMs up, but, of course it won't. To them this will mean that everyone needs to become 'educated' and 'informed' about what the evil Bush is REALLY up to.
Support jumps to 67% if the personal accounts are accompanied by a guarantee that everyone who wants to remain in the current system can do so and receive their promised benefits.
Bump!
Once people get these account statements, and they can access their balances online, they'll realize that the Dems are no good for the market. And they'll keep electing republicans, because republicans are good for this account.
Even with 1%, if you're making $50,000, that's $500 per year, and after say eight years, that'll be $4,000 plus whatever it's grown. People will then demand that instead of 1%, they can put 2% or 3% in there. It'll become the Democrats worse nightmare.
After protecting us from terrorism, this is the most important thing Bush can do in the next term. Getting this started will ensure that the country remains conservative for another generation.
Future obligations to Social Security and Medicare exceed $29.8 trillion. Combine that with intragovernmental debt, and the total burden is an unimaginable $35 trillion. Is there even that much money in print?
Privatization is long overdue. SS reform is the third rail and W is the first politician with the guts to take it head on.
Let them keep on obstructing. We'll get beyond the 60 republican senators a lot sooner.
I a bit 'polled out'. W should just do it.
Hey! At least he ain't Zogby.
I don't think this means much of significance. The idea of reform is that people don't get "their promised benefits"......because we can't afford to pay them out.
The sooner that people get it through their thick skulls that this is the case, the sooner we can get on with true reform.
This nonsense that people can have their social security cake and eat it too is the problem......privatization WILL kill social security as we know it -- that is the appeal of the idea. Sure, we can SAY that everyone gets their benefits anyway, but the numbers just don't add up.
WOW! Those polls think I should be able to use my OWN MONEY for my OWN RETIREMENT!
Gee, thanks! For those opposed: bite me!