XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics
Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
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| Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance
| the people have made in the last 20 years.
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| Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is
| what they called social security.
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| Socialism is what they called farm price supports.
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| Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.
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| Socialism is what they called the growth of free and
| independent labor organizations.
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| Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all
| the people.
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<Harry Truman, 10 October 1953>
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1956
"expansion of social security"
"this Republican Administration sponsored the
Refugee Relief Act to provide asylum for
thousands of refugees, expellees and displaced
persons"
"The Federal minimum wage has been raised for
more than 2 million workers. Social Security
has been extended to an additional 10 million
workers and the benefits raised for 6 1/2
million."
"The protection of unemployment insurance has
been brought to 4 million additional workers."
"Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so
as to protect more effectively the rights of
labor unions, management, the individual worker,
and the public. The protection of the right of
workers to organize into unions and to bargain
collectively is the firm and permanent policy
of the Eisenhower Administration."
"Assure equal pay for equal work regardless
of Sex"
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