Word: overhauled
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DENNIS HASTERT, House Speaker, warning against rushing to pass the President's proposal to overhaul Social Security and instead advocating a public-education campaign that could take as long as two years...
...dependent on the whims of the market. Eric Saunders Philadelphia Bush misled our country into going to war when he claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Now he is trying to mislead us into thinking that Social Security is in crisis and needs a drastic overhaul. When he tells young people that Social Security won't be there for them when they reach retirement age, he just might be right, but only because he has sabotaged a successful program that merely needed a few adjustments. Linda McLennan South Lake Tahoe, California...
...private investment accounts, combined with a reduction in benefits or higher taxes, is one way for baby boomers to lighten the burden of our retirement upon our children. There are other ways, but none without pain. A far more profitable-and absolutely necessary-reform would be a market-oriented overhaul of Medicare, but Dems just say no to that...
Bush misled our country into going to war when he claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Now he is trying to mislead us into thinking that Social Security is in crisis and needs a drastic overhaul. When he tells young people that Social Security won't be there for them when they reach retirement age, he just might be right, but if so, it will be only because he has sabotaged a successful program that merely needed a few adjustments...
...nervous Nellies and with the audience at home. First, it's a tough sell, because while voters intuitively believe the program is in trouble-despite the lame protestations of Democrats that its fiscal outlook is utterly sunny-they're simply not trusting of Republicans who seem too eager to overhaul a 70-year-old program that dispenses checks to a sixth of the population. If this were a Clinton proposal, he might have the Nixon-goes-to-China credentials to do it. But Bush offering to fix Social Security is more like McGovern-to-Havana...