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media type="file" key="rgpFdrspeach.mp3" FDR’s (Bobbie P.’s) Fireside Chat on SSA pre-passage

You have been lessoning to PA-P-R Pennsylvania Public Radio it is 5 PM and our president Franklin Delano Roosevelt has some things to say!

“My friends I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about” my plan called the Social Security Act. (Block) Though the help of Congress, I will be providing the people with a form of security for when they are older and unable to work at a fulltime job. You the American people will have a potion of your paycheck, based on how much you make put in to a government savings account. At the same time your employer will put in an equal amount in the same account. Then when you reach a certain age you will receive payment once a month similar to a paycheck. This is the goal of our government’s groups. It won’t be easy at first, you will see a change in your pay but you can adjust because it is for the benefit of your own future. This act will not effect the upper class citizens because they have enough money saved up to live on for years to come. It is you the American’s duty to write you Senators and Representatives to get them to support me and my cabinet’s and plans so together we can get the United States of America out of this economic hole called a depression.

Works Cited MELISSA, BLOCK "Remembering Roosevelt's First 'Fireside Chat'." //All Things Considered (NPR)// (n.d.): //Newspaper Source//. EBSCO. Web. 16 Dec. 2009.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "FDR's Statements on Social Security." //Social Security Online//. Web. 17 Dec. 2009. .