Bush Short on Social Security Details
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President Bush says Social Security's future financial shortfall is a crisis that Congress must tackle now, repeating Monday his demand for action but refusing to provide details of his top domestic priority that will cost trillions of dollars to implement.
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Many elderly Americans are unconvinced  that President Bush's plan for private Social Security accounts  would protect their children and grandchildren, an informal  sampling on Thursday found.
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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.
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US President George W Bush says the nation's social security fund is close to bankruptcy.
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The ambitious wish list launched by the successful campaigns of President George W. Bush and Congressional Republicans ran smack into the harsh reality Wednesday that the United States is short on cash.
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&quot;THE CRISIS IS NOW,&quot; President Bush declared of Social Security at the economic conference called by the White House last week.
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Facing record budget deficits, the Bush administration likely will turn to short-term government borrowing to help finance its plan to add personal retirement accounts to Social Security, officials said on Saturday.
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The White House said on Monday for  the first time that President Bush's plan to add personal  retirement accounts to Social Security would be financed in  part by new government borrowing that could top $1 trillion.
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EDITOR&#39;S NOTE -- President Bush has made his ambitious proposal to revamp Social Security a priority for his second term. This is one in an occasional series of stories exploring the retirement system, why
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President Bush challenged a hesitant Congress on Wednesday to "strengthen and save" Social Security, saying the nation's costliest social program was headed for bankruptcy unless changed. Bush's plan would cut guaranteed retirement benefits for younger Americans but would not affect checks for people now 55 and older.
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President Bush, on a trip to pitch his Social Security plans, tried on Thursday to calm restive Republicans who fear the political consequences of supporting his idea for personal retirement accounts.
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President Bush launched his plan to  revamp Social Security with a push to convince the public and  Congress that it faces a crisis, even though supporters of the  government-run retirement program say he is exaggerating its  financial problems.
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The challenge awaiting President Bush is to offer a plan for restoring the Social Security system to financial balance.
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President Bush made a fresh push Saturday for a new Social Security plan in which Americans would be allowed to channel a small portion of their income into "personal savings accounts," warning that inaction could end the retirement system.
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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, short on political capital and time, is devoting much of what's left of his term in office to getting an immigration deal.
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President Bush said on Saturday  Social Security must be overhauled to avoid a "looming danger"  of insolvency, as he launched a public push for his proposal to  add private accounts to the program.