"For our children and our children's children"

[sabrina 1]

Politicians often use this phrase when running for office.

And just as often when they win, they forget about future generations.

Which is why it is just another political cliche to most of us at this point.

But when I look at the photo below, I see people for whom that phrase was no cliche.



President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law on August 13, 1935. Congressman John D. Dingell, Sr., looks on (three from right).

Most of us were not born when FDR signed the Social Security Bill.

I looked for the photo today because I wanted to see people who were thinking of us even before we were born and looking out for us.

I'm sure everyone in that photo is long dead, but what a legacy they left for their 'children and their children's children'.

It takes a special kind of person to do what they did for people they would never know, way into the future.

I wish we could say thank you to them. Maybe it's silly but I if I could, I would give them each a :hug:

This historical event should be the pride of the Democratic Party.

it used to be. Soon we will see whether or not it still is.

[MichiganVote]

1. The Great Capitualators today continue.......

[sabrina 1]

5. Seems that way!

[damntexdem]

2. And it takes a particularly disgusting form of Democrat to undermine it.

But that is what we are seeing today.

[sabrina 1]

4. Well, we apparently have a few here who do not like

SS judging by the use of the unrec feature. Odd to see this on DU because I remember a time when not a single person here would have opposed Social Security.

[sabrina 1]

3. All I know is, I keep hearing the words 'Social Security'

being mentioned in a discussion about the deficit, which it had zero to do with creating.

And that is making a lot of people very nervous.

How difficult is it to simply say 'SS did not contribute in any way to the Deficit and will not, therefore, be a part of any discussion about the deficit'?

[L0oniX]

6. FDR is the pride of the progressives and obviously not the democrats.

FDR should be the pride of Democrats. Centrists can't or won't be like FDR.

[sabrina 1]

7. I think it's even worst than that, I think they

hate his policies. His policies helped the most vulnerable Americans. They are interested in the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the most vulnerable. I am beginning to think that they do not care about the poor or the elderly and disabled. That they see them as a burden, useless and dispensible.

The party has been hi-jacked.

[suffragette]

8. It should be the foundation upon which we build

a socially just society.

K&R

[sabrina 1]

9. it makes you wonder what kind of people would want to destroy

it.

[suffragette]

10. That it does, sabrina. That it does.