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The Blog for Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Davis Hits SS Issue

    In Tallahassee yesterday, Jim Davis and University of Florida law professor Patricia Dilley took part in a SS "birthday party" marking the 70th anniversary of the system. "They passed out pieces of a large cake inscribed with "cut the cake, not the benefits." Professor Professor Dilley, a nationally recognized "social security expert" who is "in high-demand as a public speaker",
    said her students are surprised to hear that old people either kept working or depended on their relatives before the federal old-age pension tax was imposed. ...

    Davis, whose Tampa-Bradenton congressional district includes many retirees, said Democrats in Congress will fight any efforts to privatize the Social Security system. ...

    Dilley said President Franklin Roosevelt's signing of the Social Security legislation on Aug. 14, 1935, was a beacon of hope in the depths of the Depression. She said hundreds of thousands of Americans had their savings and investments wiped out in the 1930s, while millions of workers lost their jobs, but that the New Deal signalled the start of recovery.

    "A lot of younger people don't understand how important it is," said Dilley, who worked on the staff of a U.S. House committee that reformed Social Security in 1983.

    "Before Social Security was around, older people didn't have the ability to retire," she said. "They had to work until they died or they had to face extreme poverty."
    "Davis wants to bolster Social Security system". See also "Social (Security) Hour" ("On Sunday, Floridians on the Maddox campaign's e-mail list received a letter from U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, touting Maddox's commitment to Social Security.")

    And isn't this rich:
    A study by the Institute for America's Future in Washington found that Sumter County is more dependent on Social Security benefits than any other county in Florida, based on 2003 data, the most recent available.

    The study found that Social Security checks produce 21 percent of the county's total personal income (Sumter, by the way, favored President Bush over John Kerry in 2004, 52 percent to 47 percent).
    "Social (Security) Hour".

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