Bush Backs Off Social Security Reform
by Craig Jennings, 1/15/2008
Bob Samuelson must be crying ($):
President Bush said in late 2007 that Social Security reform awaits the election of the next president, effectively deferring any action on reform before 2009.
The biggest issue for the next president will be entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, Bush said Nov. 7 in an interview with German television reporters.
"[I]t's very hard to get done because a lot of the politicians here in America really don't want to confront the problem until it becomes immediate," Bush said. "So I tried for seven years to get Congress to do the hard work. They didn't want to, and so the next president is going to have to try to do it."