Social Security
The Original Concept of Social Security
The concept of social security as originally conceived by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was that Americans should enjoy security at home, and they should expect to have a secure livelihood, and they should also have social insurance as "…a minimum of the promise that we can offer to the American people" (Houser, et al., 2014). The President also said, on June 8, 1934, that a social security program would provide relief and recovery from the Great Depression, and would help people reconstruct their lives, Houser writes on page 150.
It should be explained that at the time Roosevelt was elected there were millions of Americans that were financially destitute, especially older Americans. Houser writes that about half of Americans older than 55 years of age "…were destitute and unemployed with little hope of changing their situation" (150). On June 28, 1934, Roosevelt's fireside chat included a pitch to Americans that the road to recovery after the Great Depression should include new legislation that would use "…the agencies of government to assist in the establishment of means" in order to offer "adequate protection against the vicissitudes of modern life" (Houser, 150). Clearly Roosevelt was opening the door to a law that would help provide insurance that is social in nature.
The next day, June 29, 1934, Roosevelt established the Committee on Economic Security (CES), and this committee was do offer suggestions for new legislation by December 1, 1934 (Houser, 151). The author makes clear that at this time in American history the public had "negative associations" with welfare, and so Roosevelt had to get around the concept of welfare, which...
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