Bush Promotes Soc. Sec. Reform to Youth

STATE COLLEG, Pa. -- President Bush went back to college on Wednesday to continue his nationwide push to overhaul Social Security, and encouraged the students to call members of Congress to encourage them to support his plan for private accounts. The Associated Press reported.

"I've come here today to tell you that there are some of us in Washington, D.C., who do not want to leave you saddled with a retirement system that's going broke," Bush said Tuesday, speaking to a convention of the Pennsylvania FFA -- formerly known as the Future Farmers of America -- at Pennsylvania State University.

Before an auditorium with about 300 students in blue and gold FFA membership jackets sitting on risers behind him, Bush said he wants to "make sure the system is a better deal for younger workers" and the president assured older people in the audience that they would continue to get their promised benefits.

The students would get the same benefits that seniors today get, Bush said, without getting into the impact increases in the cost of living will have over the next 50 years.

-- NYSSCPA.org News Staff

Posted on 6/14/05