Saving Social Security and Medicare is the right way to use the surplus.

CNN: Prepared Text of Clinton's State of the Union speech

Therefore, in addition to saving Social Security and Medicare, I propose a new pension initiative for retirement security in the 21st century.

CNN: Prepared Text of Clinton's State of the Union speech

"Saving social security" will be a sizzling campaign issue next year.

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With these four measures -- saving Social Security, strengthening Medicare, establishing USA accounts, and supporting long-term care -- we can begin to meet our generation's historic responsibility to establish true security for 21st century seniors.

CNN: Prepared Text of Clinton's State of the Union speech

"I will join with you next week in listening to the president, and in hoping that along with promises about saving Social Security, he will also offer a plan to save it, " Rep. Tillie Fowler (R-Florida) said Saturday in the weekly GOP radio address.

CNN: Republicans call on Clinton to offer new Social Security plan

Younger workers should have the opportunity to build a nest egg by saving part of their Social Security taxes in a personal retirement account.

CNN: Transcript of State of the Union

And listen to this: By saving the money we need to save Social Security and Medicare, then within 15 years we will achieve the lowest level of publicly held debt since 1917.

CNN: Prepared Text of Clinton's State of the Union speech

We believe that the key to strengthening future pension benefits and reducing future Social Security taxes is to increase national saving over the next several decades by diverting budget surpluses to Personal Retirement Accounts, rather than spending those government surpluses as they have been in the past.

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Although many young Americans claim not to believe in the future of Social Security, it is hard to see their saving patterns changing accordingly.

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The Clinton Administration just appointed Thomas Saving, an NCPA senior fellow, as one of two outside trustees on the Social Security board.

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Ostensibly privatized in the year 2000, NITC was bought by three Iranian pension funds: The State Retirement Fund (33%), the Social Security Organization (33%) and the Oil Employee Retirement and Saving Fund (34%).

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In short, the outlook is for more wrangling and no action on Social Security, at least until a bitter congressional election campaign in which Democratic candidates will portray themselves as saving the system from Republican assaults and many G.

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