Bush Social Security Plan May Face Hard Sell
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A decade after President Bill  Clinton's ambitious scheme to overhaul U.S. health care turned  into a political debacle, some are wondering whether President  Bush's Social Security plan could go the same way.
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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's advisers have settled on a proposal for structuring the personal accounts they hope to create in Social Security, while on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats were launching an effort to defeat the plan altogether.
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TROY, Ohio Aug. 28, 2004 - President Bush plans to offer specific policy proposals on Social Security and other issues during his speech at the Republican National Convention, a top adviser said Saturday.
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President Bush is planning to reform Social Securtiy
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PEMBROKE PINES, Fla.  - President Bush plans a  "big January surprise" if re-elected by moving quickly to allow  some private Social Security accounts, which will reduce  benefits for retirees and swell the U.S. deficit, Democratic  Sen. John Kerry claimed on Sunday.
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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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President Bush is selling private investment accounts, financed with a share of current payroll taxes, as a way to solve Social Security&#39;s long-range financing problems and benefit younger workers.
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With federal deficits already running amok, it is unclear how President Bush will pay for his second-term agenda, a potentially multitrillion-dollar smorgasbord that includes overhauling Social Security and revamping the tax system.
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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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The personal investment accounts that are the centerpiece of the Bush administration's Social Security proposal would be modeled after a popular federal retirement savings plan that offers a mix of index funds with microscopic administrative fees.
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With lawmakers expressing doubt  about its proposal to restructure the Social Security  retirement system, the White House acknowledged on Wednesday  that its plans for investment accounts are likely to undergo  changes to win approval.
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For President Bush to succeed in his drive to let workers put part of their Social Security taxes in private investment accounts, he'll have to persuade Republicans like Rep. Ray LaHood to vote for it, and that will take some doing.
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Looking at alternate plans for Social Security
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If Social Security is as sick as President Bush claims, it&#39;s a mystery why he&#39;s proposing a cure that&#39;s no cure at all.
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As President George W. Bush begins a big campaign to restructure Social Security, Democrats and a host of interest groups are mobilizing to fight his private account
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Fresh from re-election, President Bush is dusting off an ambitious proposal to overhaul Social Security, a controversial idea that had been shelved because of politics and the administration's focus on tax cuts and terrorism.