"Freedom From Want."-Stop the Plot Against Seniors by Alan Grayson

[kpete]

Rep. Alan Grayson

U.S. Congressman from Florida's 8th District
Posted: August 14, 2010 03:29 PM

Stop the Plot Against Seniors

My father's middle name was Franklin. He was named after Franklin Roosevelt. And today, we celebrate the anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's greatest accomplishment -- Social Security.

We call it Social Security. In other countries, they call it a public pension. But Roosevelt chose the term Social Security because the word "security" went right to the heart of what he was trying to accomplish for Middle Class America. It was one of Roosevelt's famous Four Freedoms: "Freedom From Want."

Without Social Security, seniors would be forced to work into their seventies, eighties and nineties. When they would become too sick or frail to work, they would have to beg. And then they would die.

That's the way it was in America when my father was growing up. Before Franklin Roosevelt's Social Security. No wonder my grandparents named him Franklin.

[midnight]

1. Grayson's emphasis on the word security is good, but I think

the word "social" might be why the republicans are trying to destroy it.

[steve2470]

2. He's great ! I'm really amazed Florida elected him nt

[MannyGoldstein]

4. even the republicans in his district like him

Real Democrats win easily these days

[old mark]

3. Rec. The very sad fact is that many on the right see nothing wrong with returning to those days...

can't have that "socialism", you know - makes the individual weak, and thus society is made weak, and ripe for takeover by the...uh...Cubans?
Then, all the rich people would have to suffer at the hands of the godless communists...that would be terrible!


mark

added: I recall Rick Santorum saying that being poor and struggling to stay alive made people's character stronger...like he would know anything about poverty...OR character?

[laughingliberal]

5. I'd go so far as to say many on the right won't be happy until we return to those days.

Yes, given Santorum's lack of character, perhaps he should try a few years of having to beg for his meals.

[steve2470]

6. k and r nt