http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/7242/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/was-bush-right-all-along-about-social-security-reform <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Reporter Mary Williams Walsh doesn&#039;t say that, but does report that the United States is now paying out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes, an important threshold it was not expected to cross until at least 2016, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Yet the Times fiercely opposed Social Security reform when Bush was pushing it in 2005. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Did President Bush have the right idea on Social Security reform after all?<br /><br />Of course, Thursday's front-page story by Mary Williams Walsh, "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/business/economy/25social.html?hp">Social Security To See Payout Exceed Pay-In - At Tipping Point Years Ahead of Projection</a>," doesn't say that. She doesn't even mention the former president or his failed 2005 attempt at reform, which was fiercely attacked by Democrats and in the New York Times. <br /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/was-bush-right-all-along-about-social-security-reform" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch GeorgeW.Bush liberalmediabias MaryWilliamsWalsh NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias SocialSecurity TimesWatch TrustFund Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:13:00 +0000 admin 7456 at http://archive2.mrc.org