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January 24th, 2006Social Security and National Security
January 24th 03:30:36 PM
"The need to overhaul Social Security goes far beyond financial considerations. The current system, if left untouched, will decimate the United States military."
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January 23rd, 2006President Bush on Social Security Reform
January 23rd 05:49:24 PM
President Bush spoke about Social Security reform today. He said that he brought up last year, and he's going to bring it up this year, and next year, and the next year. Read his full remarks...
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S4 in Iowa
January 23rd 03:47:11 PM
Several members of S4's staff and our mascot just returned from a quick trip to Iowa. Despite some serious snow they were able to meet with S4 members at Iowa State and students at Drake University. After the meetings the ostrich and its handlers attended a Social Security discussion sponsored by Senator Grassley. S4 was there to tell Congress to get its head out of the sand give us personal accounts! 
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Letter to the Editor
January 23rd 09:59:59 AM
Another LTE published, this time in the Minnesota Daily.
"Thursday's editorial 'Insecurities of Social Security' was correct in stating that a major problem with the current system is lack of ownership. In 1960, the Supreme Court ruled in Fleming v. Nestor that workers have no right to the benefits that they have been paying. This allows Congress to do things like use Social Security benefits to pay off student loans. The only solution to the problem of the insecurities of Social Security is instituting a system of personal accounts where each citizen has sole ownership of his or her benefits. As an added bonus, personal accounts also create a sustainable framework for what is currently a system headed for financial disaster. "
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January 19th, 2006Students Want Reform
January 19th 01:24:00 PM
President Bush is speaking at Kansas State Monday where some students would like to see him talk about Social Security again.
Ben Davis, publications chairman for College Republicans, said he also
would like to hear Bush speak on Iran, Iraq and the economy.
"I think it'd also be a good idea for him to start reviving the Social
Security platform again," Davis, junior in political science, said. "I
hope he goes after it again this year."
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January 18th, 2006Getting Heard...
January 18th 04:35:31 PM
Two more articles for S4 published today.
The first talks about Social Security and the House leadership race.
"For example, regarding Social Security he writes, 'I believe that if we as a Republican Congress can pass fair, responsible reforms... we'll be rewarded at election time.' But Boehner is silent on what reform he really has in mind. Is it personal accounts favored by the House Republican Conference, or some sort of tax hike that the heart of the GOP is opposed to? Boehner and Blunt need to come out with a more detailed plan to share with their colleagues before they vote on the next leader."
The second was a letter to the editor published in New Jersey's Record Newspaper.
"The letter writer seems to wonder why we 'obsess' over paying his bills. It may be because while we will finance his fine retirement lifestyle, the future of our economy is going as bankrupt as the Social Security system we are paying into.
The letter writer suggests our generation should 'economize.' But our generation, like his, was raised to believe that each generation should do a little better than the one before. Unlike the letter writer, our generation wants to accomplish this American goal by standing on the shoulders of ownership and choice, not by holding down our children and grandchildren."
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Social Security Reform Is Alive on the Grassroots Level
January 18th 01:02:34 PM
In Iowa, home to the nation's first presidential caucus, members of the Republican Party are beginning work on their state party's platform. At the precinct caucuses in southeast Iowa Social Security privatization was among the proposed platform planks.
From The Hawkeye newspaper:
"Republicans in Henry County also submitted planks for their party's consideration. Stuart Hoff, county chairman, said proposals included supporting school vouchers, fiscal responsibility, holding elected officials accountable and privatizing Social Security.
He said the caucus for his party had people who never attended before and some as young as 14 years old. Formal participants had to be 18."
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January 17th, 2006Jack Kemp's Advice to House Republicans
January 17th 03:54:22 PM
From Townhall
"Finally, the House must restart the debate on transforming Social Security into a worker-based retirement program in which individual workers have the option to invest a significant portion of their payroll tax contributions in personal retirement accounts."
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They Said It...
January 17th 11:02:24 AM
"AARP's official position is there is no 'crisis' in Social Security, that only small changes are needed to keep it financially sound. Its website article is entitled, 'Don't Mess With Success.' It asserts, 'there is no crisis and that moderate adjustments can keep the system sound. Anyone with a college degree, a hand-held calculator, and a demographic chart of the US population knows the position of AARP is false." John Armor, a 12-year AARP member.
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January 16th, 2006Al Hubbard on Social Security and the AARP
January 16th 05:29:25 PM
Hubbard the head of the National Economic Council recently sat down to talk with his hometown paper, the Jackson Sun.
Question: You spent much of 2005 working on the president's biggest domestic initiative, revamping Social Security. Why do you think it hasn't passed?
Answer: The president embarked on a successful effort to convince the American people that it was a big problem and to convince the Democrats on Capitol Hill that it was something that needed to be addressed sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party refused to deal with Social Security as a public policy issue. They viewed it as a political opportunity to defeat the president (and) so refused to ever come to the table to talk about how to fix Social Security.
It's something that's going to have to be confronted. It's like a house of termites. The longer you wait, the more it's going to cost to fix. So far we've not been successful, but I can tell you this president is not giving up on it.
Q: Are the Democrats also the reason why the idea never seemed to catch on with the public?
A: I would actually suggest that was the AARP. The AARP also decided early on that they were not going to be supportive of Social Security reform even though the president made it clear that anyone born before 1950 would not be affected. Even though they agreed that it was a big problem, they suggested that the president was trying to destroy Social Security. He was actually trying to do exactly the opposite.
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