Alan Grayson on the history of opposition to Social Security
Yesterday, I wrote that all the crocodile tears that the Right Wing sheds for the supposed insolvency of Social Security are just a cover story for what they really want to do, i.e., destroy Social Security. My Tea Party opponent is a perfect example of this: he calls Social Security a “Ponzi scheme”; he calls Social Security and Medicare “robbery”; he calls them unconstitutional; and somehow we’re supposed to believe that he’s the one to save them.
Hoover said that rather than indulging in programs like Social Security, Americans should “cling to their family life, to their homes, to their individual self-respect, to their rights, to their individual liberties.” He urged that we must not shift “from the self-made man to the government-coddled man.”
I know that this sounds just like Paul Ryan, but it was Herbert Hoover. Really.