Social Security and Medicare, in spite of what Republicans are saying, have been enormously successful programs. By successful I mean they have kept most elderly Americans out of poverty. Evidently, a lot of people don’t think a developed nation with a democratic government should provide this sort of assistance.
I made this short video after taping Congressman Barney Frank at a Town Hall meeting in New Bedford, Massachusetts on November 10, 2011. At several points in the video I add my own explanatory notes regarding Social Security, Medicare and military spending. The references for these notes with links to online articles are given below:
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