Erik Laursen, author of The People's Pension, The Struggle To Defend
Social Security Since Reagan, describes the three decade long war
against Social Security, beginning with its origins in the bowels of the
Reagan administration, and the dynamics behind an effective long-term
strategy, a look at the decades-long ideological attack on this
all-important program, the hydra-headed campaign to cut and kill Social
Security, conducted over decades by rightwing bankers, foundations,
economists and politicians. It is a mark of Roosevelt's genius that he
foresaw these endless battles and built a System that could withstand so
much propaganda for so long, while transforming life for the elderly in
America. But now the war comes to climax.
Talk and Q and A at
All Souls Unitarian Church in Manhattan, sponsored by their Peace &
Justice Task Force and Lifelines Center, February 19, 2013. Camera by
Joe Friendly
Source: Joe Friendly/Youtube
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