What Alan Grayson says (about Social Security and the Catfood Commission)

Florida Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson defends Social Security against the deficit hawks in Stop the Plot Against Seniors Huffington Post 08/14/2010:

My father's middle name was Franklin. He was named after Franklin Roosevelt [the President who proposed and signed Social Security into law]. ...

Without Social Security, seniors would be forced to work into their seventies, eighties and nineties. When they would become too sick or frail to work, they would have to beg. And then they would die.

That's the way it was in America when my father was growing up. Before Franklin Roosevelt's Social Security. No wonder my grandparents named him Franklin.

Today marks the 75th anniversary of Social Security. Without it, many of our seniors would be so poor that they'd have to eat cat food just to survive.

That's why many are calling the Deficit Commission, run by extremist right-winger Alan Simpson, the "Catfood Commission." It's the culmination of decades of plotting by right-wingers to destroy Social Security.

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