Students hold rally on Social Security <"It is time the country face the reality that the program we know is going to go broke," said John Hancock, state spokesman for the Republican Party. "To ignore that would be the equivalent of an ostrich sticking its head in the sand.">
Students hold rally on Social Security
Awareness important, group maintains.
By JOHN SULLIVAN of the Tribune’s staff
Published Monday, March 14, 2005
Getting students to understand the finer points of the nation’s Social Security debate isn’t easy, as Colan Holmes and members of the University of Missouri-Columbia’s United Activists’ Network found out today.
Ferdous Al-Faruque, left, a journalism and political science student at MU, argues today for privatizing Social Security while talking with fellow students, from left, Glenn Rehn, Rachel Wright and Colin Holmes, who oppose the plan.
Standing at Speakers’ Circle at MU, the students - members of a coalition of progressive groups - had difficulty getting other students interested in pamphlets explaining President George W. Bush’s plan to offer private savings accounts.
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