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Republican Wisdom of Yesterday (More Bull from Babs)
Her website ^ | May 11, 2005 | Babs Steisand

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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As usual, Babs hasn't got a clue.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_eisenhower_quote.htm

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.

1 posted on 05/14/2005 9:11:00 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: BulletBobCo

Barbra, honey, stick to horsey-riding Robert DeNiro.


3 posted on 05/14/2005 9:17:13 PM PDT by RichInOC (...oops, did I say that out loud?)
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To: RichInOC
Miss Streisand, your village called...

they miss you.

4 posted on 05/14/2005 9:20:04 PM PDT by MarineDad (Whenever mosques and JDAM's meet, civilization benefits.)
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To: BulletBobCo


5 posted on 05/14/2005 9:29:35 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: BulletBobCo

That's about the funniest picture I've seen in days! :)


6 posted on 05/14/2005 9:30:46 PM PDT by Tabi Katz
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To: BulletBobCo

She sounds like my bitter, Bush-hating Grandma.


7 posted on 05/14/2005 9:36:37 PM PDT by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the Rats in terror before me.)
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To: Chode


The oft verklempt, Babs-loving host of the morning show Coffee Talk.
8 posted on 05/14/2005 9:39:54 PM PDT by John Lenin (History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap)
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To: BulletBobCo

Off topic, but would explain to me why a woman with no shoulders would wear an off-the-shoulder dress?


9 posted on 05/14/2005 10:02:11 PM PDT by elli1
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To: BulletBobCo

bump


10 posted on 05/14/2005 10:38:42 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: BulletBobCo

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.


11 posted on 05/14/2005 10:46:35 PM PDT by Better Dead Than Red (Davis College Republicans (Best Party on Campus))
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To: BulletBobCo
Gee, since social security will go bankrupt if we do nothing -- a circumstance unforeseen in 1952 -- maybe we need to dig up and interrogate Ike's corpse. Failing that, we will just have to figure it out for ourselves -- and I am not inclined to place much weight on the views of a high school dropout in La La Land.
12 posted on 05/14/2005 10:58:14 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: BulletBobCo

To paraphrase Laura Ingraham:

Babs, Shut Up and Sing.

On second thought, just Shut Up.


13 posted on 05/14/2005 11:22:32 PM PDT by LostInBayport (One Massachusetts conservative adrift in a sea of liberal lunacy...)
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