] If two-thirds (4 percentage points) of your Social
] Security taxes are diverted into private accounts, as
] Bush proposes, the date the program begins running a
] deficit will advance to 2012 from 2018, according to the
] liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
] Similarly, the date the trust fund is emptied advances to
] 2031 from 2042

If I read this right, the actual plan is to make Wall Street a crapload of money and burn Social Security to the ground ten years earlier. How the hell is this a good idea?

Accounts may be fine idea. Alone, they're no solution.