Clearly, Democrats need to represent the remaining 33% by showing that they still have a voice against such an idea!
Posted on 11/06/2004 12:11:08 PM PST by kfowler1
November 6, 2004--At his post-election press conference President George W. Bush made it clear that Social Security reform will be on his second term agenda.
Fifty-two percent (52%) of voters support the President's approach that would allow workers invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in personal retirement accounts. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that 34% are opposed.
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. Only 19% are opposed to such a proposal.
Significantly, if they are guaranteed their own benefits, 50% of American seniors favor giving workers the option to set up personal retirement accounts.
read more at http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Social%20Security%20November%206.htm
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
But Zogby said people are against Social Security reform.
Zogby's special sauce will show that 49% of the people want 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
But Zogby said people are against Social Security reform.
+++Well then, let's close the thread and move along.
Then let's roll.
Zogby got the 2000 election right..he is America's Most Thrusted pollster...
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.
The Dems are opposed..because partially privatizing SS is like being a little big pregnant..it's hard to do. Once you have private accounts, after a while, they'll be a huge cry from the people to do more,privatize all of it..that's the genius of Bush's idea..which no one is publicly talking discussing..
ssssshhhhhhhh...:)
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.
It's ok....we can scream it from the rooftops..libs don't pay attention..
Zogby's special sauce has been proven to be Laudlum, aka "Dr. Zogby's Feel-Good Snake Oil".
Nobody ever menttions that ALOT of other thing are tied to "Social Security" and if you reform SS then these lazy BASTARD will have to get off of their lazy asses and get jobs!
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.
Yeah but Zogby only polls the arab street.
WHOO HOO!! This was one of my big issues and I am so glad Bush will be working on it.
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