<![CDATA[McCain's Social Security Plan Would Cut Benefits To People Who Already Paid For Them]]>

1.0 link 129544 <![CDATA[McCain's Social Security Plan Would Cut Benefits To People Who Already Paid For Them]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-herrington/mccains-social-security-p_b_129544.html Franklin Delano Roosevelt, signing statement, The Social Security Act. August 14,1935.

"We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age."

At the time it was considered social engineering. Concerns over global and even national trends in...

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