Bush Pushes Proposals for Social Security
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President Bush acknowledged the dicey politics of Social Security as he urged Congress to approve his plan to add personal accounts to the system. With the system in financial straits, he said, any political price is worth paying.
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Fresh from a five-state tour promoting his plan to add private accounts to Social Security, President Bush pledged on Saturday to go beyond that proposal and push for an overhaul to make the retirement system permanently solvent.
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FARGO, N.D.  - President Bush warned on Thursday  that retirement benefits for younger workers were at risk as he  brought his campaign to revamp Social Security to the American  heartland and sought the public's help in winning over  skeptical members of Congress.
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President Bush is barnstorming the country, trying to convince the public that Social Security needs an urgent overhaul and offering a solution even the White House acknowledges won't fix the retirement system's future financial problems.
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President Bush on Thursday flatly ruled out raising payroll taxes to ensure the solvency of Social Security, as he opened a push for historic changes in the retirement program.
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If President Bush wants to push his plan to overhaul Social Security through Congress during his second term, he will probably have to do something he rarely did during his first term: get his hands dirty.
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SECOND-TERM GOALS: President Bush wants to revamp Social Security, overhaul the tax code, improve education, fight education, battle AIDS and poverty, while waging war in Iraq and battling terrorists.
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President Bush also plans to further his case for remaking Social Security during his State of the Union address, a speech also expected to celebrate the spread of democracy.
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Contending Americans have embraced his conservative agenda, President Bush pledged Thursday to aggressively pursue major changes in Social Security, the tax code and medical malpractice awards, working with Democrats if they are receptive and leaving them behind if they're not.
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President Bush on Wednesday urged  jittery Republicans in the U.S. Congress to back his overhaul  of Social Security, saying partially privatizing the retirement  system was worth the political price.
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President George W. Bush hopes to  revive his plan to overhaul the U.S. Social Security retirement  program if his Republican party keeps control of the Congress  in the November midterm elections, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Saturday.
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President Bush said on Saturday he  would consider ideas from Democrats as well as Republicans as  he pursues an overhaul of Social Security and other economic  priorities but insisted any fix to the retirement program  should not involve tax increases.
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President Bush on Thursday took his  campaign to overhaul the Social Security retirement system to  the American heartland where he hopes to enlist the public to  help him bring skeptical members of Congress to his side.
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Facing stiff resistance, President Bush began searching state-by-state for support for his plan to overhaul Social Security and conceded Thursday that not all lawmakers believe the program has a serious problem.
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A two-day White House-sponsored conference on the economy is aimed at boosting President Bush's proposals for more tax cuts, freer trade, tort reform and Social Security changes.
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The Bush administration has made a major production of its scheme to restructure Social Security. That notion was the centerpiece of President Bush&#39;s economic strategy meeting last week.
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PRESIDENT BUSH used an economic summit in Washington last week to promote his plans to reform the crumbling Social Security system.