MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY: They were upset at those programs that help the middle class too, A look Back.

 there’s a long history of government safety net programs which are now popular encountering major opposition at their births, and even long after. For some opponents, the devil is in the details; others decry the welfare state as straight-up socialism.
Two pieces of legislation stand out. First, in 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act which created our public pension system. Then, in 1965, Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Social Security Act Amendments which created Medicaid and Medicare. This slideshow looks at some of their outspoken critics — and the legislative roadblocks they created. It’s remarkable how similar the rhetoric is to what we hear from conservative Obamacare opponents today.


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