Reply #85: Congressman Jim McDermott on Social Security:

[gumby]

"...You can take the President at his word when he says "I want you to think about a Social Security system that will be flat bust, bankrupt". Of course he does. Remember when all he wanted you to think about was nerve gas, smallpox and mushroom clouds?

Iraq didn't have Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Social Security isn't going bankrupt.

...Alternatively under current law Social Security can pay 100 percent of benefits until around 2050, after which point 80 percent of benefits can be paid forever.

Does that sound like a bankruptcy crisis to any sane person?"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/4/83318/07155