Do You Think Ike was describing W when he said?

Question

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
President Dwight D Eisenhower

In a letter to his brother

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put down the crack pipe
even Reagan collected SS

Answer 1

No, Ike was a intelligent person. He, understood why Social Security and those programs were put in place. He was a person old enough to remember the terrible great depression. He in no way could have predicted somebody would come along as ignorant as G.W. Bush.

Answer 2

I think that he was not speaking of Bush but of things to be if they continued in the manner they were going. I mean look at his farewell speech.

Answer 3

Galveston, TX retirees have done much better WITHOUT Socialist Security! Sorry, Ike!

Answer 4

Kind of sounds like a threat.

Answer 5

Sounds like that to me, but then again, Ike was not the typical Republicans of now. I'd like to imagine what Ike thinking now about people like Bush and Cheney.

Answer 6

Pretty much.
Here he is talking about the group that killed his successor and led us into what we are seeing nowadays:
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html

Answer 7

No, he was just predicting that someone might try this, Bush just happened to be the idiot that did.

Answer 8

Nope!!!!!!