Given the sequester and the President's continued willingness to embrace cuts to entitlements and "chained CPI" for Social Security, I'm re-publishing a diary I wrote last September about life before Social Security as portrayed in Leo McCarey's 1937 film Make Way for Tomorrow. You'll find references to Mitt Romney, and I'm leaving them in as he is an excellent metaphor for the kind of people who are pulling the strings of the Congressional GOP puppets.
I think this is a film everyone should see, and certainly every legislator. I wonder if the President has ever seen it. Perhaps we should send him a copy.
The original diary continues below the fold.