Bush SS FUD created 'a crisis without a solution'

Funny how you can say and intend one thing and have an all-together unintended outcome.

USATODAY.com - Public remains anxious over economy, war: "Another factor in the president's low approval levels on the economy may be his talk about a Social Security crisis, some analysts suggested.

Bush crisscrossed the country saying that the national retirement program was headed toward bankruptcy. But he drummed up little public support for his prescription for fixing it, which includes individual investment accounts for workers under age 55,— in exchange for a reduction in future promised benefits.
you don't keep real confidence in the economy when you hear that the Social Security system is going broke,' said Thomas Mann, a scholar on Congress and the presidency at the Brookings Institution. 'Americans weren't persuaded by his solution. So we got a crisis without a solution.'

An Associated Press poll conducted this month found Bush's economic approval rating at 41%, his lowest rating yet in that poll and down from 47% in January."

Can it get worse for him?

Yes.

Gasoline in SanFrancisco is over $3.00 a gallon at some stations. I assume prices will drop with the Fall but if they do not then The Preznit will be punished in the polls and that will be ugly. Today's baseline of 41% is pretty low to start with.