Beck: Social Security, Medicare "should have never been created," ties creation of Social Security to Stalin

Wow. He really has no clue how SS works yet he claims to "read." Sad.

A free Fox News tshirt to every viewer who gives up their Social Security. A free Fox News mug to those who give up their Medicare

So tell that to the widows of firefighters and policemen. They receive social security benifits when their spouses pass away. So Becky wants these people throw away their saftey net and put themselves at the tender mercies of the community? Look stupid tax dollars are YOUR MONEY! I would rather have a spouse of a pulic servant get he money than some fantastically expensive weapons system. Becky makes millions telling ordinary folks to hang themselves.

I wonder how many of the tea baggers are on Medicare and collect Social Security? I know that probably his biggest audience indulge in both programs. I don't understand why the right always attacks these programs.

In 1930s, poverty among Senior Citizens was over 50%, today it is less than 10%... yeah, we should have never created it.

I know how the right thinks that this type of "hand out" just gets people "addicted" to it... but, what is an 80 year old supposed to do in this society? Go work in a coal mine?

Oh and I forgot that we are all supposed to take individual responsibility and prepare for our twilight years, but in the real world, not everyone is going to be able to do this and those without a safety net will suffer... Is that how you want to treat our elderly... Well, I know what Beck thinks.

Glennie couldn't lick Henry Hopkins boots!!!! What a tool...he is stomping on his viewers!

I'm sorry, but what Beck is basically saying is that death panels are good. I mean, if you cut off Medicare and Social Security, you are basically sentencing many old people to death by starvation and exposure.

Shame, shame, Beck.

A correction of history is hardly the worst thing about Beck's latest piece of universal Democrat-smearing trash, but it does seem necessary:

Harry Hopkins was never seriously accused of being a pro-Soviet spy. He worked with the Soviets during WW2 - considering we were allied with them, this is hardly a condemnation - and at any rate had nothing to do with Social Security. Right-wing critics in the 30's didn't like him because of his high role in FDR's administration as a New Dealer, but it wasn't like Hopkins snuck over to Russia, saw how they were doing things, reported back to FDR, and that's where we got Social Security.

His bizarre, scathing portrayal of Ida May Fuller, while factually accurate, shows a complete lack of understanding as to how Social Security works. Of COURSE the first recipient will probably get a bit more than she paid, you freaking moron. Even by Beck's standards, this argument is comically flawed and petty - an indication that when attacking the economic policies of the President who led America out of a severe depression, one tends to grasp at straws.

Again, Beck's anti-liberal rampage has unsurprisingly led him to counter-factual nonsense that, even if it made sense - and it doesn't - represents a political battle that his side lost 70 years ago. It's clear that he's desperately searching for something new, and I don't think even the Tea Partiers are going to buy that Wilson, FDR, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Obama are all on the same side of the "progressive" coin.

Beck you fail! Social Security was drafted by Gov. Robert Moran Jr.'s committee on economic security. Not Harry Hopkins.

Harry Hopkins was never accused of being a spy. Harry Hopkins job was to pass along information to Stalin and top Soviet officials on what FDR was planning in order to gain their support.

But poor O'Keefe, he is a ballsy kid, who is innocent until proven guilty.

Doughboy is badly miscalculating with this one. A large portion of the Faux News audience is well advanced in years, AND RECEIVING SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS! Many others are closing in on the age when they can finally begin drawing on this life-long investment. They're not going to like being told that this program that they dearly love and RELY on makes them a bunch of 'damned socialists'.

Typically, Dreck stoops to smearing Harry Hopkins, with vague accusations of his having been accused of being a spy. Hopkins, however, was NEVER accused of spying by any governmental agency. Doughboy knows that such accusations came exclusively from dishonest and manipulative right wing media thugs... the Glenn Drecks of that era, if you will. These were the same people that frequently called FDR himself a Bolshevic and a Jew.

And, Dreck further smears Hopkins by claiming that he "had a relationship with Stalin", and that he could "get him to accomplish foreign policy." This, admittedly, was true. But, this was also in the midst of WWII, and the Soviet Union was our ally in our war against Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. Representing FDR, Hopkins served to help coordinate our military dealings with the USSR, and, as such, performed a great service to our nation and our fighting men. To see him thus smeared and vilified some 70 odd years later by this smug and loathesomely unrepentant chickenhawk is truly sickening.

And what of Ida May Fuller? She gets the Dreck treatment for having the unmitigated gall of living a long life. The purpose of Social Security was to prevent... as commonly occurred in that era... America's elderly from falling into severe poverty. Ida's case was well publicized at that time, as it showed that Social Security WAS WORKING FOR THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH IT HAD BEEN CREATED! OF course she benefited out of proportion to what she paid in. America did not want to see its older generation starving. Only the most compassionless and right wing of Americans were willing to tell our elderly "Hey, if you're going hungry, then why don't you get up off your lazy backsides and ride the rails just like the other hobos."

Glenn Dreck has proven once again that he doesn't have a soul.

he wants old people to die, and he wants them to die broke. sounds like a financial death panel to me.

Beck doesn't know his history very well. Harry Hopkins had little to do with the creation of Social Security, and was a true American patriot during WWII, as he dealt with the Ruskies for FDR (they were our allies then, Beck). Read Wikipedia bio for more.

Are all insurance programs a "social" program? Like car insurance is money from "other people" if I file a claim? So Stalin keeps the bad drivers on the road with replacement autos. I guess if government handouts of S.S. money bothers some folks they could just give the money back. Would a country without any insurance programs be better? The program called Social Security keeps a family with children feed if the bread winner dies. Medicare "is" government run health care. Does Mr. Beck buy any Stalin backed programs for his house, his car, his family?

Beck said:

"I'm an American, I can read. (Well, mostly Hustler, when I'm not watching anime porn)."

Beck: Social Security, Medicare "should have never been created," ties creation of Social Security to Stalin

Man that was a FAIL!

Social Security was created in GERMANY by Otto Von Bismark!

He also gave the country its first form of HEALTH CARE. Employer contribution with employee's pay! STILL GOING TODAY!

Not Adolf Hitler!

Beck "I'm an American, I read and believe in the Constitution." Too bad because of your lack of education, you can't comprehend what you read, including the Constitution.

I wonder how many Beck fans were surprised to realize social security and medicare were socialistic.
I wonder how many of those fan-boys are still okay with accepting the benefit of these social programs.
I have a feeling the majority of Beck fanatics only consider policy socialistic if it's Obama policy.

Well the National Socialists did want government run pension plan for its older citizens.

Dick Cheney and Halliburton have gotten a lot fatter off of government that any Social Security recipient has.