A Weekly Dose of Reality on Social Security Reform
April 19th, 2005

Presidents Agree:

"And above all, to my fellow baby boomers, let me say that none of us wants our own retirement to be a burden to our children and to their efforts to raise our grandchildren. It would be unconscionable if we failed to act, and act now, as one nation renewing the ties that bind us across the generations."
(President Bill Clinton, Remarks To A National Forum On Social Security, Kansas City, MO, 4/7/98)

"Social Security was a great moral success of the 20th Century, and we must honor its great purposes in this new century. The system, however, on its current path, is headed toward bankruptcy. And so we must join together to strengthen and save Social Security."
(President George W. Bush, State of the Union, 2/2/05)

The Senate Agrees:

"The President, the Congress, and the American people, including seniors, workers, women, minorities, and disabled persons, should work together at the earliest opportunity to enact legislation to achieve a solvent and permanently sustainable Social Security system."
(S. Con. Res. 18, CQ Vote #46: Adopted 100-0: R 55-0; D 44-0; I 1-0, 3/15/05)

Seniors Agree:

By a three-to-one margin, senior voters think that the current Social Security system is not financially sound and that it would be irresponsible for Congress to avoid making significant changes to the program.
(Ayres, McHenry & Associates, 3/16/05)

It's time to act. Fix Social Security now.