drmiler

On CNN today they reported that even more Americans do not agree with the private accounts and the prospect of passing that change with the majority opposed to the private acccounts is not good. The only age group that support the private accounts is the under 35 group. The home town metings in Fl where I live are pro Bush but the paper reported today the vast majority in Florida do not suppotrt private accounts. The issue of the unified budget is that ANY Peresident, including Clinton was distorting the deficit using the accounting trick. My point, lets report the budget without the distortion. We should also show Americans the individual statements from Social Security amd Medicare so a true picture can be sceen.

drmiler On CNN today they reported that even more Americans do not agree with the private accounts and the prospect of passing that change with the majority opposed to the private acccounts is not good. The only age group that support the private accounts is the under 35 group. The home town metings in Fl where I live are pro Bush but the paper reported today the vast majority in Florida do not suppotrt private accounts. The issue of the unified budget is that ANY Peresident, including Clinton was distorting the deficit using the accounting trick. My point, lets report the budget without the distortion. We should also show Americans the individual statements from Social Security amd Medicare so a true picture can be sceen.

Like I said other polls show different opinions. Here:

Majority Favors Private Accounts for Social Security, Cato/Zogby Poll Says Written By: Michael Tanner Published In: Budget & Tax News Publication Date: March 1, 2005 Publisher: The Heartland Institute -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A majority of Americans believe younger workers should be allowed to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in individual accounts, according to a new poll conducted by Zogby International for the Cato Institute. Despite a drumbeat of criticism for weeks by congressional Democrats and a concerted public relations campaign by powerful interest groups such as the AARP against Social Security choice, 51 percent of those polled by Zogby supported the introduction of individual accounts. Only 39 percent opposed individual accounts being part of any Social Security reform. Age Groups Split Predictably Not surprisingly, the results showed a split along age lines. Younger voters were strongly in favor of individual accounts, which garnered the support of 61 percent of respondents under age 30 and 58 percent of those under 50. Most respondents over 65--55 percent--were opposed. However, opposition by seniors dropped to just 45 percent if they were assured their own benefits would not be affected. Reflecting the sharp partisan divide nationally, opinions about individual accounts also split along political lines. Republicans were overwhelmingly united behind the reform proposal, which is a priority of President George W. Bush's second-term agenda. Seventy-four percent of respondents identifying themselves as Republican said they support individual accounts, while only 14 percent opposed them. Most Democrats remain opposed, with 61 percent saying they are against individual accounts. However, a strong minority among Democrats (more than 30 percent) said they favor individual accounts. Independents polled leaned toward individual accounts, 45 percent to 40 percent, with a high proportion undecided. While few voters (14 percent) agreed with Bush that Social Security was in "crisis," an overwhelming majority (61 percent) said the New Deal-era system was facing "serious problems" that required "major changes." Few voters (5 percent) accepted the notion that Social Security is fine or could be fixed with only "minor, incremental changes" (19 percent). Current System Considered Risky When asked whether they believed private investing or the current Social Security system is riskier, voters split nearly evenly. Roughly 41 percent thought private investment is riskier because benefits could go down depending on how investments perform. But slightly more (44 percent) thought the current Social Security system was riskier "because it cannot pay all the benefits promised." Again, voters split by age, with young people believing Social Security is riskier (52 to 39 percent) and seniors believing private investment is riskier (46 to 31 percent). Voters were also supportive of another proposal rumored to be part of a Bush Social Security plan. By a 61 to 23 percent margin, voters backed a proposal to hold future benefit growth to the rate of inflation. The poll of 1,004 likely voters was conducted in mid-January and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Tanner (mtanner@cato.org) is director of the Project on Social Security Choice at the Cato Institute.

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You should know by now not to trust polls. They to easy to skew one way or another. Just to refresh your memory.....exit polls 2004 election. The reason if any that the older folk are not behind it is that the left is telling them taht GW is going to take away their SS.

Just watch. It will not pass the congress!

Just watch. It will not pass the congress!

Well we'll we see won't we? But of course do not be all that surprised if it does.