Panel debates personal accounts as method of reviving Social Security

WASHINGTON - Conservatives touted personal accounts as the revolution that will fix what they say is a broken Social Security system at a panel celebrating the program's 72nd birthday.

The Social Security Act was signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Aug. 14, 1935. The retirement benefits program is today a source of complaints for many elderly who say they aren't getting enough out of the program and for youth who say they fear all the money will be gone by the time they're old enough to collect.