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Originally Posted by NJ Stinks
I'd tout SS anytime. And FDR too.
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If you will, it's rather lengthy but, take a gander and this paper published in 2009. You may find it rather interesting. Then again, maybe not!
You seriously might want to look at the history of the social security act before touting it so broadly.
I will tell you personally, it has evolved into something needed but, hasnt always had such honorable intentions. Keep in mind, corporations (remember those big evil people?) were in support of this as well....I wonder why??
"Most people now think liberals and labor leaders created the program because they are the ones who defend it. But as this document will show, the basic principles behind old-age insurance were created and actively supported by the corporate moderates who owned and controlled the biggest and most powerful corporations of the 1920s and 1930s, companies such as Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Electric, and Metropolitan Life Insurance. In fact, government social insurance, including both unemployment insurance and old-age insurance, made enormous business and political sense to corporate moderates from the 1930s to the early 1970s. They only turned against it as part of a more general ideological and political attack on "big government" that began in the late 1970s in the face of a new set of economic and political problems caused by skyrocketing oil prices, stagflation, and the pressures put on government budgets by the social movements that arose in the 1960s."
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesam..._security.html
