Bush's Social Security plan loses steam among young adults

[UpInArms]

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/11270174.htm

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Young adults, a generation with the most at stake in the national debate over Social Security, appear to be losing confidence in President Bush's proposal to boost retirement savings through individual investment accounts.

Wariness among the young is one of several ominous signs that Bush's attempt to restructure the program is in trouble.

A barrage of advertising by AARP, stock market jitters, qualms felt by many Republicans and the fierce protectiveness of senior citizens for Social Security have sapped Bush's top domestic priority for his second term.

Now poll results indicate that those under 30, long the target of would-be reformers, are following the path of their grandparents.

Nationwide polling by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that support for Bush's plan among Americans age 18 to 29 sharply dropped from 66 percent in February to 49 percent in late March.

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[merwin]

1. Uh, it's lost support EVERYWHERE, not just YA

[Jack Rabbit]

2. But that's not what fearless leader said

Today in Iowa he said the country supports his Social Security proposals.

And he once said Saddam possessed weapons of mass destructions and had ties to al Qaida.

[grannylib]

5. And once he said free and peaceful societies do not posess weapons

of mass destruction, and that they provide health care for all citizens.
Counts us RIGHT out now, doesn't it, halfwit?
Too bad the sheeple have not woken up to the fact that the terrorists have won; we've given up the very freedoms they claim we're trying to protect, and the very freedoms they claim the TERRORISTS hate.
It's the radical Christian clerics and the theocrats and the neo-con-men who REALLY hate us for our freedoms, and will continue to tighten the noose on all of us, FOR AS LONG AS WE LET THEM.

[UpInArms]

8. well said

:thumbsup:

[Warpy]

6. Translation: Nobody in his echo chamber has TOLD HIM

that his big dream of ending a socialist program that WORKS is turning to shit.

[Penguin31]

3. To say it's losing support...

...requires you to make the assumption that it had support to being with.

[grannylib]

4. Privatization = Wall Street Welfare. The Bush plan is Wall Street Welfare.

Can't emphasize it enough; that should be Democratic Talking Point #1 on this issue. Dim Son's plan WON'T fix what's wrong with it; it's like a magician's redirection so the audience won't see what's really going on.

[Erika]

7. Only the bankers are guaranteed a profit

The individual "investor" is not guaranteed to even break even. Waht a deal - for Wall Street.

[Moderator]

9. locking

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