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rulemylife -> RE: Obama campaign voluteers exclude Muslim women (6/20/2008 12:54:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou
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Really? So all the public works projects, including the bridge you may drive over in your daily commute were failures? Social Securiy is a failure? Ask your parents or grandparents how they feel about that statement.
I don't drive over any bridges that were built during the New Deal. Yeah, social security is a failure IMO. I don't like the government telling me how to save my money. I have been paying into SSI since I was 15 years old. I probably will never see a dime of that money. If I had saved it on my own, it would be in a bank gaining interest.
I know the opinion my grandparents had of FDR and the New Deal. My grandparents were life long Republicans, and they despised him. My grandmother told me that her father wouldn't allow FDR's name to be mentioned in his home. My parents are in their mid 60's, so they weren't around for the New Deal. But they both remember the Great Society, JFK, and LBJ. My father hated both of them.
You're sure about that ? There were a great many public works projects undertaken by the New Deal, so even if you don't use a bridge built during the program chances are you are benefitting from some other type of public works project financed by it. I'll leave the Social Security argument alone, because even you must realize the benefits it has had for society.
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