August 14, 2010 07:00 PM
In Case You Forgot What August 14, 1935 Was All About . . .Social Security
(FDR - HR 7260 saved a few million people and still does)
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Lest we all forget, August 14, 1935 was the day HR 7260, The Social Security Act of 1935 passed into law, after a series of knock-down drag-out battles.
FDR: “If the Senate and the House of Representatives in this long and arduous session had done nothing more than pass this Security Bill, Social Security Act, the session would be regarded as historic for all time.”
And seventy-fives years later, it's still around, still bashed, still attacked, and still saving the majority of Americans hitting 65 ever since.
Lucky, no?
And isn't it amazing that after 75 years, the enemies of average folks are still trying to kill or co-opt Social Security.
CaliforniaMike blogs at All Voices and at his own blogs, http://www.mikerappaport.net/onevoice and at http://oneminutewithmike.blogspot.com.
But it's the same damned thing. That several billion dollar trust fund is just about the only thing left that the Repubs haven't handed over to Wall Street and it's got to be driving the useless parasite banksters flipping crazy to see all that money just lying there doing good for the little people and not being funneled through their claws for their 51% take.
http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/219059_ioued...
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FDR led this country through a World War. He led this nation to strengthen its democracy. He knew better than any, that people need to have health care and income into their old age. FDR knew that returning GI's needed education, training and jobs. FDR gave this nation real leadership against the odds, he gave us SS and unemployment insurance. FDR was a great human, we should not let spineless weaklings direct us away from tested wisdom.
CarmanK
"Middle class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action." Paul Krugman.
...."a day that shall live in infamy...!"
I doubt Shar-ron Angle can spell, and surely does not know the meaning of, vicissitude!!
also, today would have been my paternal Grandfather's 140th Birthday!! Wow, that means I'm old...
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
When FDR created social security elderly people and disabled people were starving to death in the streets.
Not exagerating here.
Unless you had loved ones willing to foot the bill you were toast.
If you think unemployment is bad now, just wait until the entire work force has to keep working 5 more years. Those who propose raising the age never seem to think of the repercussions. We need to remind them every chance we get.
Timing is everything :P
Ida May Fuller worked for three years under the Social Security program. The accumulated taxes on her salary during those three years was a total of $24.75. Her initial monthly check was $22.54. During her lifetime she collected a total of $22,888.92 in Social Security benefits.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Social Security is meant to protect and cover every American, no matter how much they put in. I know its not fair, but complain to the 20 million people it saved and see what kind of response you get.
It's interesting how you took my comment as a complaint Joe. :-/
Cheer-up friend ♥
Study the symptoms not the virus...
dismantle The New Deal for generations.
SSI stands for Social Security INSURANCE. What part of Insurance don't people against Social Security Understand? Don't they have car insurance? Life insurance? Fire Insurance?
Crimany, folks, it's just that simple. It is insurance against poverty in old age, insurance against your spouse dying and leaving you to raise your kids until age 18, insurance against disability.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
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