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August 14, 1935

by: susanthe

Sun Aug 14, 2011 at 18:39:11 PM EDT


"We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age."

President Roossevelt at the signing of the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. For 76 years, Social Security has been the most successful anti-poverty program ever created in the United States.  

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August 14, 1935 | 2 comments
Iowa Straw Poll Winner (0.00 / 0)
Michelle Bachmann says it's time to update the program.  In winger speak that means, I believe, destroy it.  

Rick Perry (4.00 / 4)
Rick Perry says Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional:
"I don't think our founding fathers when they were putting the term "general welfare" in [the Constitution] were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care. What they clearly said was that those were issues that the states need to address. Not the federal government. I stand very clear on that."


"Politics ain't beanbag" - Finley Peter Dunne

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