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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : It is embodied in government action and inaction whenever conservatives have their way.
56% : That is because Social Security embodies Roosevelt's world view and the understanding he learned from his devastating experience with polio.
54% : It insists that the only people worthy of government assistance are those can who surmount the obstacles government places in their way.
54% : In 1935, when President Roosevelt proposed the creation of Social Security, opponents made similar arguments.
54% : Despite the fact that Social Security is earned, the opponents still claimed it would create dependency.
53% : Knowingly, the late Wilbur Cohen, known as the father of Social Security and Medicare, remarked, "a program that is only for the poor -- one that has nothing in it for the middle income and the upper income -- is, in the long run, a program the American public won't support."
53% : The attitude can be seen in the nineteenth century debate over free public education.
52% : Social Security, its opponents claimed, was socialism.
51% : But one issue that unites us is Social Security.
48% : We see it in talk of "entitlements," and "makers" and "takers," as well as in claims that government spending creates dependency and that the Democratic agenda is socialist.

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