Should The System Be Privatized? Fifth Annual Forum sponsored by the 60 Plus Association

White House critics are shocked, just shocked, that President Bush has named people who agree with him to a new commission that’s supposed to redesign Social Security so the program provides a decent retirement for future generations.

The 60 Plus Association, a national, nonpartisan senior citizens’ advocacy group of half a million members, strongly endorses the letter sent by U.S. Representative Jim DeMint (R-SC) and House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) urging that you support protecting the benefits for Social Security recipients and offering younger workers the opportunity to establish personal retirement accounts.

60 Plus Association endorses Bush bipartisan commission to improve and strengthen Social Security.

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.

The 60 Plus Association commissioned Kellyanne Fitzpatrick and the polling company to conduct a nationwide telephone survey of 800 registered voters on the subject of Social Security and personal retirement accounts.

Delivered at a seminar sponsored by the 60 Plus Association on the 62nd anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act, Washington, D.C., August 14, 1997

When I came to Washington as a newspaper reporter in 1962, John F. Kennedy was in the White House, Neal Armstrong had not yet walked on the moon, Strom Thurmond was a Democrat and the problems with Social Security were perceived by few, other than Barry Goldwater.

First Senior Group Goes on Record for Privatizing Social Security System.