Social Security Problems Not a Crisis, Most Say Washington Post: Most Americans are certain Social Security will go bankrupt but are not ready to em
February 8, 2005

Social Security Problems Not a Crisis, Most Say

Washington Post: Most Americans are certain Social Security will go bankrupt but are not ready to embrace changes that would shore up the system's finances, according to two surveys by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University.

Seven in 10 Americans agree with President Bush that Social Security eventually will go bankrupt if Congress fails to act, though most predict that the system will not do so for at least two decades. Yet while Bush has warned of a crisis in Social Security, barely one in four Americans believes that a crisis exists.

It seems the American people at this point haven't been flim-flammed into thinking there is a REAL crisis.

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