"Students oppose private accounts”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 5/18/05
More than 150 student body presidents from college campuses all over the country, including four from Georgia, have signed a petition calling for a commitment from Congress and the White House to protect Social Security.
The coalition, called "Students For a Secure Future," opposes the president's plan to change the program to allow workers to divert earnings into private accounts.
Adam Sparks, who served as last year's Student Government Association president at the University of Georgia, said the petition will show politicians that students are serious about the issue.
"The perspective of young people has been mostly overlooked," said Sparks, who graduated last week. "What it means for the next generation hasn't been seriously looked at."
In addition to Sparks, other Georgia signers include Southern Polytechnic State University SGA President Marvin Linwood Broaddus; Charisse Perkins from Georgia Southern University; and Thomas Cotton from Kennesaw State University.
Mark Kresowik, president of student government at the University of Iowa, said Bush's approach will saddle young people of today with billions of dollars in debt in the future.
See the full story at the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 5/18/05
More than 150 student body presidents from college campuses all over the country, including four from Georgia, have signed a petition calling for a commitment from Congress and the White House to protect Social Security.
The coalition, called "Students For a Secure Future," opposes the president's plan to change the program to allow workers to divert earnings into private accounts.
Adam Sparks, who served as last year's Student Government Association president at the University of Georgia, said the petition will show politicians that students are serious about the issue.
"The perspective of young people has been mostly overlooked," said Sparks, who graduated last week. "What it means for the next generation hasn't been seriously looked at."
In addition to Sparks, other Georgia signers include Southern Polytechnic State University SGA President Marvin Linwood Broaddus; Charisse Perkins from Georgia Southern University; and Thomas Cotton from Kennesaw State University.
Mark Kresowik, president of student government at the University of Iowa, said Bush's approach will saddle young people of today with billions of dollars in debt in the future.
See the full story at the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
posted by Hans Riemer at 4:29 PM
12 Comments:
Meanwhile, back in the real world, most students support Social Security reform, especially the right to choose a personal account.
More reason for acting sooner rather than later:
Click to read about The Graying of America.
Once again, Hans Reimer selectively chooses data, then comes up with some sort of headline which is grossly incorrect.
SOME students oppose Social Security reform, and SOME support it. Of course, in the world of Hans Reimer, one must always count anything that opposes his blatantly partisan agenda as irrelevant, and one must totally ignore such things.
You know, like how Reimer still, to this day, ignores his interview on Fox News, and how he was shut down by the very students he claims to represent. And, of course, how Reimer's been outdebated here on his very own blog.
There are student groups out there promoting reform, so for those of you who aren't too informed, feel free to check out www.secureourfuture.org.
Many students- in fact, most going by the polls- want Social Security personal accounts. Hans Reimer is promoting an AARP-led liberal partisan agenda here, in an effort to try to have this generation sell itself out. I have news for you, Reimer: some of us aren't going to fall for your dirty games. Wake up.
So far, only the Republicans seem concerned about making sure Social Security is secure. The Democrats' big problem with the plan seems to be that it allows people to decide for themselves how their money should be invested. No one would force anyone to put their money in the market, it would be an OPTION. And if someone really believes their money would be better off in the hands of politicians, that's fine. However, don't stop ME from the right to choose. It's MY money; I earned it.
The student presidents are usually liberal arts majors and therefore of not a math background. They believe SS is secure so it is secure. Plus they've been in gov't schools for 15 years or so. So they have grown up to love gov't and think it is the solution to all their problems. These presidents have no real power in the school anyway, why would their opinion be any more valuable than the others?
Georgia Institute of Technology is still not on that list. Which I find funny. The only large school is UGA. Southern Poly is the redheaded stepchild of Georgia Tech. Kennesaw State has about 8 students. Georgia Tech would really be the university I'd play a closer look at.
If these students oppose private accounts, no problem. They can simply not choose to put any of their SS contributions into privatized account as it is optional. Isn't that great? Something for everybody.
You guys are hilarious.
"Once again, Hans Reimer selectively chooses data, then comes up with some sort of headline which is grossly incorrect."
Hans' headline is taken directly from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
So what? Reimer's the guy who posted it.
If Reimer's so innocent, he should pull up some articles about the other groups, or maybe something about the POLLING data which shows that a huge majority of 18-31 year olds support the option to invest in personal accounts.
The AJC's headline was incredibly ignorant of them, but so was Hans's decision to post it on this board, as if it was the absolute truth or something.
In case anyone is still wondering about Riemer's appearance on Your World with Neil Cavuto on May 5th and why he hasn't posted the transcript (I'm not referring to him ignoring the appearance all together, just the posting of the transcript), I just got off the phone with Fox News and there was no transcription of that show. However I can obtain the DVD for $65 and can get Fox News to grant me a license to post it on the web. Anyone interested?
Hans is ignoring his appearance on Cavuto because he got totally PWN3D.
interesting article. thanks for the info! I'm glad to see our generation is thinking about this. I also agree that changes need to be made to SS, but not necessarily in the form of personal accounts.
It goes without saying that a subset of clueless Americans under 30 opposes VOLUNTARY Personal Retirement Accounts. That's the beauty of this situation, said student body president can opt to stay in the current system.
that's true adam, the plan claims to be optional. But isn't it a bit unwise to immediatley agree with a plan that hasn't been fully laid out for the public? And would we really have all that much choice?? The options in these plans might be minimal and only focused on certain investments that the govt would choosse. I for one, prefer my 401K.
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