Center For American Progress - Primer on President Bush's "Plan" for Social Security Privatization
- An economist analyzes Bush's plan and finds it would force massive benefit cuts, cost trillions in new borrowing, weaken its financial outlook; plus how government "clawback" would eat into any gains in private accounts.
- http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2005/05/b668125.html

Social Security BullShit: A Socratic Discussion with a Texas Cowboy at McDonald’s
- Using non-technical language and a dialogue format, explains the problems with privatization and misleading privatization arguments. Logical fallacies and economic concepts are presented.
- http://www.socialsecuritybullshit.com/

Economic Policy Institute - Pulling a Fast One? The Facts About Social Security
- Looks at the Social Security debate largely from an African-American perspective and examines what it is, its actual purpose, sovency, and President Bush's proposals to change it.
- http://www.epinet.org/issueguides/socialsecurity/spriggs.naacp.crisis.20050304.pdf

Social Security Matters
- Designed to be a resource for women on what Social Security is, its importance, and the debate to privatize the program. From the Older Women's League.
- http://www.socialsecuritymatters.org/

Women and Social Security
- Resource on women's economic security, and especially the in retirement and the possible effects of Social Security privatization on women. From the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
- http://www.womenandsocialsecurity.org/

Business Week - Why Private Accounts Are Bad Public Policy
- Author Robert Barro examines the Bush proposals on Social Security and finds it is a needless complication that will makes things worse. [Free registration required.]
- http://www.businessweek.com/cgi-bin/register/archiveSearch.cgi?h=05_14/b3927030_mz007.htm

Would Private Accounts Provide A Higher Rate Of Return Than Social Security?
- Examines the economic analysis made by proponents of President Bush's privatization plan and finds several of Bush's assumptions and conclusions to be misleading or erroneous. From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
- http://www.cbpp.org/6-2-05socsec.htm

Social Security: Bush's Lies vs. Reality
- Comments on several claims by Bush as to why privatization is needed, and finds Bush is being dishonest, or giving the wrong causes to the actual problems. Includes extensive graphs and charts.
- http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/social_security_lies.htm

60 Plus Association - Social Security
- Conservative seniors advocacy group advocating personal, private savings accounts.
- http://www.60plus.org/socialsecurity.asp

Heritage Foundation - Social Security Reform Center
- Arguing that privatization is necessary to preserve Social Security benefits.
- http://www.socialsecurityreform.org/index.cfm

Z Facts - Social Security FAQ
- Asks if Social Security really is in trouble, why it is important, and who wants to privatize it.
- http://zfacts.com/p/784.html

Citizens for a Sound Economy
- Advocating in favor of individual private accounts.
- http://www.cse.org/informed/key_template.php?issue_it=15

Privatization: The Ultimate 'Lockbox' for Social Security
- Argument in favor of private accounts, from Tech Central Station.
- http://www.techcentralstation.com/012104H.html

Social Security Information Page
- Information and links about Social Security privatization in the context of President Bush's 2000 campaign for the White House.
- http://userdata.acd.net/demarco.chris/sspriv.htm

White House's Social Security Page
- President Bush's plan to reform Social Security. Personal retirement accounts, rate of return on Social Security tax dollars.
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/social-security

National Center for Policy Analysis - 12-Step Plan for Social Security Reform
- Advocating privatization of Social Security.
- http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba267.html

Club for Growth - Social Security Choice
- Advocating in favor of private Social Security Accounts.
- http://www.socialsecuritychoice.org/

Los Angeles Times - Kinsley's Proof That Social Security Privatization Won't Work
- Contends that Social Security privatization is not just unlikely to succeed, it is mathematically certain to fail.
- http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-kinsley19-proof,0,6186135.story?searchlink

Rolling Stone - The Fake Crisis
- Economist Paul Krugman explains Bush's argument to privatize social security as a swindle that will cost Americans trillions of dollars.
- http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6822964?rnd=1105925428234&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.872

Gambling With Your Retirement
- New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman reads through the rhetoric and finds the privatization scheme is really a government loan that may leave retirees with little or nothing.
- http://www.pkarchive.org/column/020405.html

Salon - Bush's Dirty Little Secret
- Here's what the president didn't say in his State of the Union address: his plan to privatize Social Security will be hugely expensive and will make the average worker worse off.
- http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/03/social_security_plan/index_np.html

Business Week - Whose Social Security Stash Is It?
- Essay exploring how money put into a private account won't really belong to people in the way a paycheck does.
- http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2005/nf2005028_8485_db045.htm

Los Angeles Times - The Meathead Proposition
- Asserts the logic on privatization fails because Bush assumes one thing to claim there is a problem, and then something different to claim he has the solution.
- http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-kinsley13feb13,0,7984285.column?coll=la-sunday-commentary

Chicago Sun-Times - Social Security Plan an Ideological Crusade
- Editorial by William O'Rourke finding stark contradictions in Bush's plan and sees his attempt as an ideological battle seeking victory instead of an economic one seeking a solution.
- http://www.suntimes.com/output/orourke/cst-edt-rour13.html

Campaign for America’s Future - Sign the Pledge
- Petition drive to oppose diverting any Social Security revenues to private investment accounts.
- http://www.signthepledge.org

UAW Region 8 - Save Social Security
- Statement from the United Auto Workers Union arguing that privatization is detrimental to workers, costing trillions of dollars and requiring massive cuts in benefits.
- http://www.uawregion8.net/Departments/CAP/Social-Security/ss-index.htm

Save Social Security
- Advocating the transition of Social Security into a totally privatized program. From Vutec Corporation.
- http://www.savessi.com/

Cato Institute - Project on Social Security Choice
- Promoting privatization of Social Security and creation of private accounts.
- http://www.socialsecurity.org/

National Center for Policy Analysis
- Non-profit public policy research institute advocating private sector solutions.
- http://www.ncpa.org/pub/sos.html

Retiring with Dignity: Social Security versus Private Markets
- From the Cato organization. A position paper supporting privatization of Social Security.
- http://www.cato.org/pubs/ssps/ssp2.html

National Organization for Women - Social Security
- Oppozing privatization or benefits cuts for Social Security.
- http://www.now.org/issues/economic/social/

Institute for Policy Innovation
- Arguing that Social Security reform should include private accounts.
- http://www.ipi.org

National Center for Public Policy Research - Health Care & Retirement Security
- Advocacy of privatization of Social Security, and against national health care coverage.
- http://www.project21.org/Health.html

International Center for Pension Reform
- Promotes the reform of government-run pension systems along the Chilean model of private savings accounts.
- http://www.pensionreform.org/

Institute for America's Future
- Arguing for the continuation of Social Security without privatization, with guide to issues, news, and resources.
- http://socialsecurity.ourfuture.org/

President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
- Presents principles and findings of the Commission, presenting three models for privatization.
- http://csss.gov/

Salon - Social Absurdity
- The push to entrust the rapacious financial industry with Social Security money is being led by a former advisor to murderous Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
- http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/1999/07/20/privatization/

Heritage Foundation Social Security Calculator
- Heritage Foundation's take on the future of Social Security.
- http://www.heritage.org/research/features/socialsecurity/

Estelle James
- Research and advocacy on the subjct of Social Security reform, with a focus on privatization.
- http://www.estellejames.com

Bush's Plan to Loot Social Security
- Accuses privatization proponents of lying about the current situation to gain control over the money involved.
- http://www.new-enlightenment.com/sss1.htm

For Our Grandchildren
- Advocates Social Security reform through the creation of private accounts.
- http://www.forourgrandchildren.org/

Don't Privatize Social Security
- The AFL-CIO labor union's opinion on privatization and other Social Security issues.
- http://www.aflcio.org/socialsecurity/

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Arguments against the privatization of Social Security.
- http://www.cbpp.org/socsec-series.htm

Cato Social Security Choice Papers
- Collection of libertarian essays that advocate and analyze privatizing Social Security.
- http://www.cato.org/pubs/ssps/sspstudies.html

Americans for Tax Reform
- Articles advocating privatization and personal accounts.
- http://www.atr.org/national/issueareas/socialsecurity/

Arguments Outline: The Social Security Debate
- Outlines and elaborates arguments advocating privatization of Social Security system.
- http://politics.ryanrenn.com/social_security.htm

American Prospect Social Security Coverage
- Articles arguing that people will be worse off if Social Security is privatized.
- http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=Social+Security