Posted on 05/14/2005 9:11:00 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
...President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote on Abolishing Social Security
Netlore Archive: A quote attributed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower declares that any political party attempting to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, labor laws and farm programs would never be heard of again
Description: Attributed quote Circulating since: Feb. 2005 (in this form) Status: Authentic Analysis: See below
Email example contributed by AOL user, 8 May 2005: "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, l952-----
Comments: This is one of several abridged versions circulating online of an actual statement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961). The original passage, from a letter Eisenhower wrote to his brother Edgar on November 8, 1954, went as follows:
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid. If he were alive today, however, Eisenhower a committed, if comparatively moderate, Republican would surely object to the way his words are being used. Those who quote the passage clearly mean to imply that it fits current Republican luminaries such as President G.W. Bush, whose proposals for Social Security reform have included reducing future benefits for some. As it happens, Bush is also a Texas oil millionaire.
But he has never proposed abolishing Social Security, nor eliminating unemployment insurance, labor laws, or farm programs. Hence, the tacit suggestion that Bush and fellow-traveling Republicans ought to be counted among those characterized as "stupid" by Eisenhower is a transparent, if deft, example of partisan hyperbole.
Barbra, honey, stick to horsey-riding Robert DeNiro.
they miss you.
That's about the funniest picture I've seen in days! :)
She sounds like my bitter, Bush-hating Grandma.
Off topic, but would explain to me why a woman with no shoulders would wear an off-the-shoulder dress?
bump
From what I have come to know of Ike over the years I don't really think of him as some wise sage. I blame both he and Truman for the Vietnam war. If they hadn't actually provided assitance to the French in trying to re-colonize Indochina then perhaps Ho Chi Minh might never have acquired such a large following. Also from what I have heard he allowed the Soviets a headstart in the Space Race because he didn't want our peaceful space program to use space launchers that were also being developed as ballistic missiles.
To paraphrase Laura Ingraham:
Babs, Shut Up and Sing.
On second thought, just Shut Up.
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