Social Security Debate Gets Personal (talk show lies)

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-social12jan12.story
THE NATION
Social Security Debate Gets Personal
In talk-show-style chats and phone interviews, Bush and Democratic foes seek to win public support in the battle over a restructuring.
By Warren Vieth and Joel Havemann
Times Staff Writers

January 12, 2005

WASHINGTON — Far from his dairy farm in central Utah, 27-year-old Josh Wright stepped onto a stage with President Bush on Tuesday and related the warning his father had given the other day in the barn.

"He looked me in the eye and he said, 'Don't depend on Social Security. You're independent…. Don't plan on having Social Security there when you get older.' "

The president looked at Wright approvingly. "At your age," he said, Social Security "will be bust by the time it comes for you to retire."

But for Alice Froeschle, a retired teacher from Jenks, Okla., Social Security is a "guarantee that workers who retire will not be destitute in their old age." Speaking to a reporter Tuesday at the request of congressional Democrats, Froeschle said the current system was far better than having workers "gamble their retirement away in the stock market."<snip>

Ballard was attending the forum at the invitation of FreedomWorks, a conservative advocacy group that supports Bush's proposal for private accounts.<snip>