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“California voters are notoriously fickle and cross party lines at the drop of a good pension plan.”
—TIME, November 19, 1945
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The reference in the quote is to the various pensionite movements in California in the 1930s and 1940s including the Townsend plan and the Ham and Eggs plan. See
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/documents/areas/fac/hrob/mitchell_babyboomers.pdf
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/Documents/areas/fac/hrob/mitchell_townsend_roosevelt.pdf
and
Daniel J.B. Mitchell. (2000). Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society. M.E. Sharpe.
Comment by Daniel J.B. Mitchell — 3.19.2012 @ 8:47 pm