Today marks the 75th anniversary of President Roosevelt’s signing of the Social Security Act (at approximately 3:30 PM, to be exact).
Others will surely write informative diaries regarding the good things Social Security has done and will do for millions upon millions of Americans. As well they should. It’s a program that deserves the highest of praise.
As well as the strongest of protection.
My intention, given the Cat Food Commission’s intention on focusing on Social Security, is to take just a quick, cursory trip down Memory Lane in advance of proposed changes… to see just where then-candidate Obama stood on Social Security.
It will provide a base on which to judge his efforts going forward in the fight, and I think it would be a great rider to all the expected Social Security diaries today.
Follow me below to see where a President, now “agnostic” about ideas like cuts to Social Security benefits, was as a candidate before he declared that “all options are on the table”.
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