60 Plus Association Chairman, Jim Martin, stated that “Vice President Al Gore has suddenly gotten religion when it comes to the Social Security Trust Fund.” Mr. Gore’s pledge to ‘shore up and protect the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds’ with a lock box clearly rings hollow.

At a fourth forum on Saving Social Security sponsored by the 60 Plus Association, Association President Jim Martin declared partial privatization of the retirement system “the wave of the future”, as Social Security turned 65 years old.