We like Ike

This quote is making the Internet rounds during the Social Security debate:

"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.... There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H.L. Hunt...a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, writing from the White House
to his conservative brother, Edgar, on May 2, 1956