I'm tired of being on the defensive about Social Security. It's a damn fine idea that has withstood the test of time, and now these thieving Republicans want to steal the only Sense of Security most people have in their lives. We let them steal nearly every other damn thing in the house. I want to keep this program. I'm sure the rest of you do.
In order to take the offensive, I propose we push Congress to declare August 15 a national holiday in honor of Social Security.
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My thinking goes like this. The Rev. Martin Luther King holiday is more than just a day off. Every year, on that day and the week or two leading up to it, Americans think about our segregationist past, about slavery, about civil rights marches, about Klansmen killing children in a church, for God's sake. It was wrong, and we must work every day to set it right.
A Social Security Day would recall the Great Depression and how greed left many Americans broke and how the Republicans were happy to see people broke and feed them the "prosperity is just around the corner" bullshit as people starved.
Well, the people finally tossed out the Republicans and voted in a Liberal Democrat from New York to save their asses. Franklin D. Roosevelt set up many programs to help ordinary people, including Social Security on Aug. 15, 1935.
Of course the Republicans would hate this, but they would be hard-pressed to vote against it. And voting for it would be a vote for the program that has been successful and would continue to be successful. The debate would be over how great a succcess it has been and not some cockamamie failure the Republicans want it to be.
I hope this rings a bell, because we need something to fight for, not fight against.