73 years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.
Since then, Social Security has enabled numerous seniors and disabled Americans to pay their bills. It's not a lot of money, but it's the least we can do for our seniors and our disabled who surely deserve it.
However, for the past several years, the Republicans have been trying to undo much of the social progress that was made under FDR. As a part of that effort, they want to privatize Social Security. This would move our precious retirement/disability resources, which are currently guaranteed, into risky private investments.
That makes me nervous.
And now John McCain has jumped on the Social Security privatization bandwagon to appease the right-wing base.
Maybe the Republicans don't care about those of us who were not born with silver spoons in our mouths. But we outnumber them, so we must not let them win this one.
This is one more reason to do everything we can to ensure that we put some Democrats in the White House and many more Democrats in both houses of Congress this November.
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