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Last Updated: 10:37 am, Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

Survey: 6 in 10 AARP members oppose Bush Social Security plan

By Associated Press
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A new survey shows six in 10 AARP members oppose President Bush's proposal to carve out private investment accounts from the nation's Social Security program.
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The poll by the nation's leading lobby for elderly citizens found that 46 percent of members strongly oppose creating private accounts that would divert money from Social Security and another 13 percent oppose private accounts altogether.
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The survey also found that nearly half of members age 50 and older believe Social Security has flaws that require an overhaul, but the majority believe in reforming the system rather than replacing it with something else.
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``AARP members not only dislike private accounts ... they really dislike them,'' said AARP research director Jeff Love, who released the results of the national survey at a news conference here Wednesday.

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