Yahoo! News - Bush Paints Grim Outlook to Sell Social Security Plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush warned younger workers on Tuesday of a grim future for their Social Security benefits but critics accused him of exaggerating the retirement system's problems to try and sell his plan to change it.

Bush used the word "bankrupt" five times at a White House forum to raise alarms about the financial state of Social Security decades into the future.

"By the time today's workers who are in their mid-20s begin to retire, the system will be bankrupt," he told an audience invited to a Social Security forum.

"So if you're 20 years old, in your mid-20s and you're beginning to work, I want you to think about a Social Security system that will be flat bust, bankrupt, unless the United States Congress has got the willingness to act right now."

Rep. Sander Levin, a Michigan Democrat on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee said Bush was just trying to scare Americans into supporting his plan to let workers shift part of their Social Security payroll taxes into private accounts.

"There is a challenge here," Levin said. "There isn't a crisis."

Let's make Bush the "boy who cried wolf". Let's point out his erroneous statements about Iraq and Saddam that proved to be totally inaccurate. Hell, let's point out all his statements about everything that turned out to be totally inaccurate.

Here's a site that points out the vast difference between George's rhetoric and the truth. That's just for starters. There are many, many sites of quotes online that I can't even begin to list them all. Google "Bush lies" and see what you find.

Why should anyone believe a word that comes out of his fear-mongering mouth?