How the inventor of Social Security was destroyed by his fellow capitalists

Dolge is still honored in the village he founded

     For thirty years Republicans have claimed that cutting taxes on the wealthy will benefit working people.  The rich, we have been told, will invest in businesses that create jobs. Of course that never happened. Rich people, by and large, make their investment decisions based on profit and the well-being of workers is not a consideration.  Even so, our Democratic president went along with big tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans in December.
     And lately, we’ve been told over and over that the Social Security system is in deep trouble, and that drastic cuts are needed. Our Democratic president appointed a bipartisan commission that came back with this very same message a few months ago.
Such lies are not new, and in fact go back for generations, back to when an early model of social security was created by a capitalist who really did believe that his mission was to create an economic system which enriched not just himself but also the lives of his workers.  But after he had built an entire village based on his own version of enlightened capitalism, the other millionaires of the Mohawk Valley whom he had regarded as his colleagues conspired to force him into bankruptcy.