But that was not how the Republicans and the Right-wing media of the day portrayed it or what it was going to do to the country.
I can still remember my Ohio-Republican grandfather cursing virtually everything FDR had ever done, claiming that it was all some Communist plot and that he would never see a penny of that 'Socialist Security' thing.
And you know what, he was right.
He died when he was 64 and never collected a cent, but my grandmother would have been in pretty tough straights if it hadn't been for the benefits which SHE ended-up drawing based on what HE had contributed all those years.
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