Social Security Act

Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

We are still living the legacy of things like the Social Security Act, rural electrification, minimum wages, maximum hours.

Ronald Reagan changed the conversation about American politics, made the idea that maybe the government is the problem, not the solution, which was unheard of before that, suddenly respectable.

Was Woodrow Wilson in this top 12 a hard call? Woodrow Wilson was a very hard call because, as you say, he did some amazing things.

Two laws stand out for their far-reaching effects here.

The National Labor Relations Act, also called the Wagner Act, and the Social Security Act.

The Wagner Act guaranteed workers the right to unionize, and it created a National Labor Relations Board.

I'm not giving up.

And unions played an important role in shaping the ideology of the Second New Deal, because they insisted that the economic downturn had been caused by underconsumption, and that the best way to combat the depression was to raise workers' wages so that they could buy lots of stuff.

The thinking went that if people experienced less economic insecurity, they would spend more of their money, so there were widespread calls for public housing and universal health insurance.

And that brings us to the crowning achievement of the Second New Deal and or the crowning achievement of its communist plot, the Social Security Act of 1935.

Social Security included unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, aid to poor families with children, and of course retirement benefits.

Well, what the federal government wants is an order that basically says that there's a, a very slow system that can't identify what states need, which is the information that says whether people are actually US citizens or not, and so they need to be able to use this SAVE database, which is the only database that can confirm citizenship.

And so they want an order allowing them to be able to use that for this upcoming election, and there's a bunch of now, forget- forgetting about the merits of whether this violates the Privacy Act and the Social Security Act and the Administrative Procedure Act and all of that, now there's an issue about the timing and the overlap of things like the quiet period, which is this 90-day period under the Voting Rights Act which says that you can't be doing these changes and purging people out of the election, these systematic purges within 90 days of an election.

And so you have that and the linkage with the mailing case, where Justice Kavanaugh was concerned about putting in these, the US mail and the voting so close to the election.

The same logic would tend to apply here.

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While in the U.S., the Social Security Act of 1935, Title IV, aid to dependent children, provided federal grants to states to support needy children.

In 1939, this was strengthened by the Social Security amendments to provide monthly benefits for eligible family members of deceased but covered workers.

I could go on, as you know, but the point is historically unarguable.

The First New Deal also included the Civilian Conservation Corps, which employed many young men to work on projects in conservation and flood control.

The Second New Deal occurred between 1935 and 1938, and it produced a lot of programs that we recognize today, like the Social Security Act.

This foundational law led to a system that took on unemployment, pensions for the elderly, aid to the disabled, poor, and families with dependent children.

The National Labor Relations Act was then passed in 1935, which made sure that Americans had the right to unionize and ask for fair wages.