[Mb-civic] FDR's 'Forgotten Man' at Risk

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FDR's 'Forgotten Man' at Risk 
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By attacking Social Security, the 'Bush Deal' aims to finish off the New Deal.

By Jonathan Alter
Jonathan Alter, a political columnist for Newsweek, is at work on a book about FDR and the Great Depression.

February 18 2005

President Bush's overhaul of Social Security isn't going well right now, but it's important to remember that he is playing a long game that is less attuned to daily or weekly news cycles than to what he hopes are the cycles of history. At issue is nothing less than the repeal of the whole idea behind the New Deal. 

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