Social Security Enters Elections

By Lori Montgomery
The Washington Post

Wednesday 25 October 2006

Bush remarks please Democrats, perplex Republicans.

More than a year after Social Security reform faded from the political radar screen, the debate erupted anew yesterday, as Democrats seized on news that President Bush hopes to revive an unpopular proposal to make changes in the national retirement program.

In recent days, Bush has said Social Security remains one of the "big items" he wants to tackle next year and he continues to "believe that a worker, at his or her option, ought to be allowed to put some of their own money ... in a private savings account, an account that they call their own."