tes must take the lead if passing Social Security reform has any chance to succeed. The saliency of the issue will force the entire Congress to take a stance on the issue and each will have to make important decisions for their constituencies and their future. Hopefully, much like 1986, reform will pass and the Social Security program will not be passed on to the next Congress and closer to destruction.Social Security reform in the United States may still be years away. The fact that it is approaching its demise has not affected the public or Congress like it should and therefore it will not be brought up in Congress voluntarily. However, time is running out. Social Security will begin to lose money in only a few short years and by the time this writer is fifty it will be all but a memory. That is unless something is done. The public must demand reform and the political climate must be perfect. It will be then that the President or Congressmen who takes the lead in protecting the future of millions of Americans will begin to earn every penny of their paycheck, except for the FICA tax that inevitably consumes 8% of it, but hopefully not much more.Morris 18“Works Cited”Birnbaum, Jeffrey H. and Alan S. Murphy. Showdown at Gucci Gulch: Lawmakers, Lobbyists, and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform. Random House Publishing,New York, NY. 1987Certner, David M. “Preserve The System, Do Not Destroy It”. www.assetpub.com.Asset International Incorporated, 2002. 6/6/96 publication.Clinton, William. “Address to National Forum on Social Security”. Economics of Social Issues. Eds. Ansel Sharp, Charles Register, and Paul Grimes. McGraw-Hill Publishing, New York, NY. 2002Garrett, Major, and Timothy J. Penny. The 15 Biggest Lies In Politics. St. Martin’sGriffin Publishers, New York, NY. 2000Sharp, Ansel M., Charles Register and Paul Grimes. Economics of Social Issues: Fifteenth Edition. McGraw-...
