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It is amazing how history repeats itself.
In 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration passed the Social Security Act into law. The Republican party immediately denounced it as “Socialism”, and campaigned on repealing it.
Kansas Governor Alf Landon ran his Presidential campaign of 1936 on that issue, and he ended up winning two states.
Social Security was never repealed, and Barry Goldwater suffered the biggest landslide defeat in percentage, greater than Landon, when he suggested that Social Security be made “voluntary”.
George W. Bush tried to promote privatization of Social Security in 2005, and in 2006, the GOP lost control of both houses of Congress.
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson was able to enact Medicare legislation, and the GOP denounced it as “Socialism”.
Determined to repeal it, Minority Leader Gerald Ford (later to be President), appeared on Meet the Press in January 1967 to promote the effort.
Medicare was never repealed, and when Senator Bob Dole, who voted against it in the House of Representatives, ran for President in 1996, he bragged that he had opposed it, and proceeded to lose the election to President Bill Clinton.
http://www.theprogressiveprofessor.com/?p=11242
In 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration passed the Social Security Act into law. The Republican party immediately denounced it as “Socialism”, and campaigned on repealing it.
Kansas Governor Alf Landon ran his Presidential campaign of 1936 on that issue, and he ended up winning two states.
Social Security was never repealed, and Barry Goldwater suffered the biggest landslide defeat in percentage, greater than Landon, when he suggested that Social Security be made “voluntary”.
George W. Bush tried to promote privatization of Social Security in 2005, and in 2006, the GOP lost control of both houses of Congress.
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson was able to enact Medicare legislation, and the GOP denounced it as “Socialism”.
Determined to repeal it, Minority Leader Gerald Ford (later to be President), appeared on Meet the Press in January 1967 to promote the effort.
Medicare was never repealed, and when Senator Bob Dole, who voted against it in the House of Representatives, ran for President in 1996, he bragged that he had opposed it, and proceeded to lose the election to President Bill Clinton.
http://www.theprogressiveprofessor.com/?p=11242