well well welllll...... about time some responsible journalists took this administration head on about the privitizing social security. looks like the administration has been caught in their zeal to sell broker services. from the los angeles times:

WASHINGTON — President Bush believes Americans are so eager to join the "ownership society" that, given a chance, two-thirds of those eligible would divert funds from Social Security into the personal investment accounts he proposes.

But when public employees in seven states were offered the opportunity for similar accounts during the last decade, nowhere near two-thirds signed up for them. In many instances, the figure was closer to 5%.