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In reply to the discussion: Original New Dealer Wisdom [View all]1WorldHope
(1,519 posts)21. Interesting, my grandma thought he was A-okay because of Medicare and social security.
My grandparents were not lazy suckers of society. They were farmers who grew old, the farmstead was destroyed, except for the house, by a tornado. They moved the house onto town and were probably living off rental to other farmers. But no health insurance for sure. My grandpa lived to be 105. They sold the farm and used every penny for a nursing home after my grandma had a stroke. But he wouldn't have had the farm of it had not been handed down from parents and grandparent's who got the land from the homestead act. That land was technically stolen from native America. What a tangled web we have woven.
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Yep. My grandmother called him 'that wild-eyed radical' many times in conversation.
OldBaldy1701E
Jun 29
#14
Interesting, my grandma thought he was A-okay because of Medicare and social security.
1WorldHope
Jun 29
#21
Do not underestimate the power and leverage of the consumer dollar. Without consumer spending,
Hotler
Jun 30
#44
Praise the heavens and Eleanor and Frances, etc., that he was a "traitor to his class"...
RobertDevereaux
Jun 29
#18
FDR was one of them by birth, but not one of them by spirit. FDR for the people, all the people.
Clouds Passing
Jun 29
#31