Americans are starting to recognize that the politicians who do nothing to repair Social Security are the same politicians who then turn around and spend that money on pork barrel projects. Every day more citizens find out that their Social Security trust fund is really nothing more than a file cabinet in West Virginia full of IOUs. They're beginning to understand what raiding the nation's retirement trust fund really means for their children's future. They're worried and they're angry. And they're beginning to make themselves heard.

Almost 80 Million Retiring Baby Boomers

Over the decades the United States government has repeatedly raised taxes, cut benefits and increased the retirement age in an effort to salvage a Social Security program that has served as a banner of American compassion.

However, today, with 79 million retiring Baby Boomers poised to overwhelm the outdated system, the most popular government program in the world is about to become the most expensive and most destructive.

Without reform, today's generation of young American workers will live to see severe benefit cuts, massive tax increases, and a staggering one half of their nation's budget going to pay for Social Security and Medicare benefits.

Every month that goes by without a solution to this crisis, the system falls fifty billion dollars deeper into debt.

Click on the articles below to learn more about why our pay-as-go retirement system is heading for bankruptcy.

     Social Insecurity (Tim Penny flash piece)

     Let's Get to the Table (Charlie Stenholm flash piece)

     Baucus Balks at the Whole Truth

     Boomers Could Bust Our Social Security System

     Congress: Pass or Fail

     First Boomer Draws Retirement Check

     Look All Around

     The Monster Under the Bed

     We Regret to Inform You...

     Social Security Requires More Than Gridlock, Investors Business Daily, January 9, 2007

     Letter to the Editor, Roll Call, January 18, 2007