Jay Inslee: Washington's 1st Congressional District
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Community Coffees on Social Security Reform
In March 2005 I held several local town hall meetings about Social Security reform, in order to hear constituents' opinions about the President's plan to change Social Security through private accounts. I invited all constituents and interested people in the community, including students and younger workers.
Constituents at the meetings overwhelmingly expressed concern about the adminstration's proposed partial privatization of the Social Security system. This is because the huge cost of changing over into a new private investment account system would require our country to: (1) reduce guaranteed Social Security benefits; (2) incur large amounts of new debt; or (3) both reduce benefits and incur large amounts of new debt.
Inslee takes questions from a crowd at a Social Security meeting in Mill Creek.
A constituent addresses Inslee at the meeting on Social Security in Kirkland.
Inslee invited guest speaker Kenneth Buffin, a professional actuary and economist who has dealt with Social Security reform issues with the American Academy of Actuaries, to address the meeting on Social Security on Bainbridge Island.