Political Quotes

“I am glad you carry that around because if you were to listen to these ads on TV, you would think the Republicans thought of the idea of Social Security and Medicare, when, in fact, they fought it every inch of the way. Just a few years ago, in 1994, Dick Armey, in addition said if he were here, he wouldn't have voted for Social Security. So this is what Lionel Van Deerlin writes. GOP House and Senate members invariably lined up in opposition to these social programs. As Casey Stengel would advise, you could look it up. He writes further on: Yet when President Roosevelt's original Social Security bill neared passage the following year, every Republican present voted to "recommit" the measure. To send it back to committee, that is, to kill it. He goes on: Today's GOP generation offers little more to warm one's hands on. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, a one-time economics professor, has openly urged the phasing out of Social Security. And no less a prophet than ex-Speaker Newt Gingrich tipped his hand upon taking the gavel in 1995. "Let it wither on the vine," was his chilling suggestion for dealing with a system vital to the support of nearly 45 million Americans. He continues: I offer the foregoing compendium from public records, not to belittle or embarrass decent, often likable leaders of past and present. They did not climb the ladder with subnormal IQs, nor by ignoring ordinary folk in their respective states and districts . . .”