[Jaysun]

But there is a strong argument, which the agency acknowledges as a possibility, that the system is solvent as is.

No there isn't. SS will not "work", it's mathematically impossible. Let the idiots argue otherwise. The best way to end SS is to leave it as is.

[Choose Ye This Day]

And, in looking at Social Security today, the crisis is yet to be found.

[CatAtomic]

The best way to end SS is to leave it as is.

Should we consider the possibility that the left's plan is to allow SS to become a crisis in which our only alternative is to raise taxes to European levels and thereby convert the US to another socialist state?

[Mill John Stuart]

Yes, but wouldn't it be better to actually hurry SS on to it's well-deserved demise? If there is not enough SS tax income to cover SS obligations to retirees around 2018, then encouraging people to put their SS taxes into private accounts, rather than into the SS trust fund, would make the shortfall worse. The worse the shortfall, the sooner this socialistic transfer of wealth from the lucky rich to the unlucky poor can be put behind us. President Bush is a lot smarter than liberals give him credit for being.