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...glad to report that I am joined in this openness to private investment by Democrats like the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Sen. Bob Kerrey, and even the godfather of Social Security himself. In a 1935 letter to Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, wrote of his hope for the “promises of private investment and private initiative to relieve the government in the immediate future of much of the burden it has assumed will be fulfilled.” Indeed, President Roosevelt unsuccessfully proposed adding “voluntary contributory annuities by which individual...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, said it best nearly seven decades ago: “In our efforts to provide security for all American people, let us not allow ourselves to be misled by those who advocate shortcuts to Utopia or fantastic financial schemes.” That was true then. It is true today. In this age of insecurity, Americans of all ages need to know that they can always count on Social Security, both today and in the future...
...Institute for Community Resource Development, has teamed up with five Chicago universities to study Austin's broader food needs. They have already started nutrition classes and salad bars in neighborhood schools and are planning to build a large food coop. Says Redmond: "Eating is a political act." --By Margot Roosevelt...
Toward the end of his latest rhetorical flight into liberal idealism, at the National Defense University last week, George W. Bush called the roll of high-minded American initiatives in the past century: Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points, Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, Harry Truman's Marshall Plan, the Reagan Doctrine. Three of the four Presidents invoked were Democrats, and the policies cited were spiritually quite the opposite of the Bush Doctrine, at least...
...temptation to support only the purest and most needy charities hurts more than it helps. The Red Cross doesn’t allow gay men to give blood, an unnecessary restriction that reinforces harmful stereotypes. The Democratic Party of Franklin Roosevelt supported Strom Thurmond. The labor movement once tolerated unions that discriminated against women and minorities. But if donors had boycotted these institutions, America wouldn’t have blood drives, the New Deal, or the weekend. Sometimes if you want to support a positive outcome you have to be willing to accept the bad deeds of good organizations...