Posted on Jun 24,
2016 at 11:59 p.m.
Yes,
I find that comforting when I look at the history of government programs
designed to help Americans, programs such as Social Security, which was
established in the 1930s and saved older Americans from abject poverty, and
Medicare, which was established in the 1960s and guarantees basic medical
insurance coverage for those over 65.
The
liberal-led administrations and congressional majorities that instituted these
programs knew what was right for millions of Americans who have benefited for
decades in the face of conservative interests that rail against them even today
while also thwarting any measure — such as increasing the federal minimum wage
and Obamacare — aimed at improving the lives of the poor and middle class.
Jim
Heffernan
