{"id":2571,"date":"2010-08-14T01:35:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T08:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2010-08-14T01:35:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T08:35:35","slug":"happy-birthday-to-all-american-seniors-and-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/14\/happy-birthday-to-all-american-seniors-and-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to All American Seniors and Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seventy five years ago today FDR signed the Social Security Act of 1935, passed over Republican opposition, into law.  That makes this birthday good for seniors, but some forget that unemployment insurance was part of the Social Security Act, making it good for workers too.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"14rooseveltss\"<\/a> Seventy years ago today, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the law that created the Social Security system, but this year’s great debate over the program’s future has all but left behind President Bush’s goal of maintaining the system’s solvency through the baby boom’s retirement. <\/p>\n

Instead, the battle lines have shifted to a House Republican plan to establish private investment accounts out of Social Security’s cash surplus<\/strong>, a plan that even its advocates say would do nothing to improve the program’s financial outlook. <\/p>\n

Opponents of private accounts will be out in force today, with 131 events celebrating Social Security’s anniversary, including birthday balloons on the Mall and the distribution of 50,000 "birthday cards" laying out opposition to the latest version of a Social Security restructuring. On Friday, James Roosevelt kicked off events at a rally in front of his grandfather’s memorial. <\/p>\n

Bush administration officials are also fanning out this weekend to make the case that the nation can best honor the program by accepting the president’s prescriptions for its future\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Did you notice anything unusual there?  That\u2019s because the article is exactly five years old. Republicans were trying to prevent Social Security in 1935, were still trying to kill it in 2005, and are still trying today.  Rachel Maddow has multiple examples.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

There were exceptions.  I was only 12 when he left office, but I liked IKE.  He was right about the stupidity of those trying to undo Social Security.  He warned us about the military-industrial complex.  Was he right about that, or what?  I hope he was right about the Republican demise as well.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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