Do you believe George W. Bush when he says Social Security is broken?

[anna s]

Yes, it's been broken for years & a part of the national debt. Unfortunately the issue reaches all the way back to its inception. Originally it was marketed as a a savings benefit & many of the people who bought into it mistakenly believed that all of the $ they put into it would be theirs at retirement - much like a savings acct. Part of the problems with it are allowing immigrants who are in the country & barely work for a year to retire with benefits, congress borrowing from it to fund other programs, and many people who collect it upon becoming disabled & then staying on it for decades. It needs to be majorly revamped since it is as much of a problem as ADC & welfare used to be.