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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
No reasonable person could look at the historical record and think that FDR wanted privately-funded annuities to replace the government-funded benefits.
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Originally posted by bilmore
No reasonable person would propose that that's what's been said here.
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Did you even bother to read what Hume said? From the top again, Hume said:
- In a written statement to Congress in 1935, Roosevelt said that any Social Security plans should include, "Voluntary contributory annuities, by which individual initiative can increase the annual amounts received in old age," adding that government funding, "ought to ultimately be supplanted by self-supporting annuity plans."
Hume inserted the words "government funding" there to imply that Roosevelt was talking about something like what Bush wants to do. He wasn't.
