Social Security: Bush's Lies vs. Reality - Comments on several claims by Bush as to why privatization is needed, and finds Bush is being dishonest, or giving the wrong causes to the actual problems. Includes extensive graphs and charts.
Social Security Matters - Designed to be a resource for women on what Social Security is, its importance, and the debate to privatize the program. From the Older Women's League.
UAW Region 8 - Save Social Security - Statement from the United Auto Workers Union arguing that privatization is detrimental to workers, costing trillions of dollars and requiring massive cuts in benefits.
White House's Social Security Page - President Bush's plan to reform Social Security. Personal retirement accounts, rate of return on Social Security tax dollars.
Women and Social Security - Resource on women's economic security, and especially the in retirement and the possible effects of Social Security privatization on women. From the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
Z Facts - Social Security FAQ - Asks if Social Security really is in trouble, why it is important, and who wants to privatize it.
Would Private Accounts Provide A Higher Rate Of Return Than Social Security? - Examines the economic analysis made by proponents of President Bush's privatization plan and finds several of Bush's assumptions and conclusions to be misleading or erroneous. From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. (June 2, 2005)
Business Week - Why Private Accounts Are Bad Public Policy - Author Robert Barro examines the Bush proposals on Social Security and finds it is a needless complication that will makes things worse. [Free registration required.] (April 4, 2005)
Chicago Sun-Times - Social Security Plan an Ideological Crusade - Editorial by William O'Rourke finding stark contradictions in Bush's plan and sees his attempt as an ideological battle seeking victory instead of an economic one seeking a solution. (February 15, 2005)
Los Angeles Times - The Meathead Proposition - Asserts the logic on privatization fails because Bush assumes one thing to claim there is a problem, and then something different to claim he has the solution. (February 13, 2005)
Salon - Bush's Dirty Little Secret - Here's what the president didn't say in his State of the Union address: his plan to privatize Social Security will be hugely expensive and will make the average worker worse off. (February 5, 2005)
Gambling With Your Retirement - New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman reads through the rhetoric and finds the privatization scheme is really a government loan that may leave retirees with little or nothing. (February 4, 2005)
Rolling Stone - The Fake Crisis - Economist Paul Krugman explains Bush's argument to privatize social security as a swindle that will cost Americans trillions of dollars. (January 13, 2005)
Social Security Information Page - Information and links about Social Security privatization in the context of President Bush's 2000 campaign for the White House. (May 8, 2000)
Salon - Social Absurdity - The push to entrust the rapacious financial industry with Social Security money is being led by a former advisor to murderous Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. (July 20, 1999)
