January 21, 2004

Several years ago in a State of the Union address and subsequent town-hall meetings, President Clinton brought the Social Security debate to the forefront. At the heart of President Clinton's position was the very basic issue that some time early in the next century, Social Security will go bankrupt. To avoid this, the president wanted to remedy the problem then, saying that whatever is done, we must do the "right thing" for the future of the system. We did not solve the Social Security problem then. However, last night in his State of the Union address, President Bush rekindled the quest for a solution to the Social Security problem.

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