Bush Says Social Security Revamp May Involve Cuts
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President Bush proposed the biggest  overhaul of Social Security since its 1935 creation on  Wednesday night in his State of the Union speech, and for the  first time said he would consider limiting future retirement  benefits as part of a solution.
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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.
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President Bush emphasized today during his last press conference of the year that he wants Social Security reform efforts to protect the benefits of older Americans.
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President Bush will outline his  controversial plan to revamp the Social Security retirement  system in his State of the Union speech on Wednesday that will  also stress the need to stay the course in Iraq.
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President Bush says he can save Social Security, which is due to go bust in 2053, without cutting benefits to those who are now or will soon be retired, and also without raising the payroll tax.
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President Bush warned younger  workers on Tuesday of a grim future for their Social Security  benefits but critics accused him of exaggerating the retirement  system's problems to try and sell his plan to change it.
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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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MAIN TOPIC: President Bush will offer new details about his plan to let younger workers divert some of their Social Security payroll taxes into personal investment accounts. Experts say while the president will seek to reassure Americans who are at or near retirement, he will leave larger questions unanswered.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush, who has promised that his plan to allow private investment accounts in Social Security would give workers a &quot;better rate of return,&quot; is seriously mulling a companion effort that could cut future promised retirement benefits for millions of workers by 6 percent, even when potential gains from private accounts are included, analysts said.
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va.  - President Bush,  faced with opposition in Republican ranks to his intentions to  revamp Social Security, pledged on Friday to provide members  with political cover from any fallout over the debate.
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President Bush hits the road on  Thursday to persuade wary members of Congress and Americans to  support an overhaul of Social Security after raising the  incendiary topic of possible limits on future retirement  benefits.
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President Bush said Saturday that Social Security "is on the road to bankruptcy" and unable to pay promised benefits to future generations, raising the stakes in a major political battle with Democrats.
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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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President Bush said Thursday that ``now is the time to confront Social Security&#39;&#39; to deal with a projected $3.7 trillion shortfall over 75 years and give younger workers the
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TAMPA, Fla.  - President Bush said on Friday he  recognized his contentious proposal for personal retirement  accounts was not the only solution to bolster Social Security  but would be part of a broader overhaul of the country's  largest entitlement program.
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President George W. Bush, facing pressure to trim a record US budget deficit, will combine a push to restructure Social Security with a call for spending discipline as he wraps up a two-day economic summit.
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President Bush said on Thursday he  would work to convince Congress of the need for spending cuts,  tax cuts and Social Security reform in a bid to reassure  financial markets he is determined to address huge fiscal  problems.