Bush Social Security Privatization

George Bush, Republican icon, is the gift that keeps on giving. He's returned, on a silver platter for Democrats, telling voters that his greatest failure while president was not privatizing Social Security!

Former President George W. Bush signaled on Thursday that he sees not reforming Social Security as his greatest failure from the eight years he served...

If Social Security privatization was in effect when Bush was sworn-in, retirees who invested in the broader market would have seen their nest egg down 14 percent over the last seven-plus years.

It was a spectacular flop: a president making dozens of fruitless trips around the country to build support for a plan his own party's leadership refu...