dougs digs

once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right

5.12.2005

I Like Ike

"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 [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 11/8/54

p.s. - Ironically, 50 years later, a Texas oil millionaire is trying to abolish social security as we know it, starve unemployment programs, weaken labor laws, and gut rural/farm programs.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/5/11/23651/7456
|| doug, 11:37

1 Comments:

What a crack up! Wow, :)
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