“Never in the history of the world has any measure been brought in here so insidiously designed so as to prevent business recovery, to enslave workers, and to prevent any possibility of the employers providing work for the people.”

Representative John Taber (R-NY)

No, this is not a Tea Party member of Congress complaining about President Obama’s debt reduction plan. Rep. Taber was speaking of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Social Security plan in 1935.