3.19.2012

The More Things Change…

 

“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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  1. 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

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