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In reply to the discussion: Drive your right wing friends crazy with THIS actual Republican poster! [View all]Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)32. Here's a quote from the Republican Party Platform of 1956:
"The record of performance of the Republican Administration on behalf of our working men and women goes still further. 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. There have been increased workmen's compensation benefits for longshoremen and harbor workers, increased retirement benefits for railroad employees, and wage increases and improved welfare and pension plans for federal employees."
1956 Republican Party platform
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25838
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, personal correspondence to his brother Edgar Newton Eisenhower, November 8, 1954
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Drive your right wing friends crazy with THIS actual Republican poster! [View all]
alp227
Dec 2012
OP
Democrats walked fine line because the southern states have always been anti-labor...
WCGreen
Dec 2012
#14
And Blacks weren't allowed to join the Union, Jim Crow Laws, and blacks had to ride on the back
Heather MC
Dec 2012
#34
Nah, he wants the other 1956 America where large swathes of the country had no rights. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#47
Someone needs to post this in Free Republic or whatever that dirtbag... er, uhm. teabag site is.
world wide wally
Dec 2012
#53