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The Value of a Promise

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  The Value of a Promise        Uxbridge, Massachusetts is, pretty much, the only world I have known. I’ve lived my entire life here, worked here, raised my family here, and I plan to live out my days here.  It has given me a fantastic life for which I am forever grateful.        But, it is not perfect.  And when issues arise that have the potential to harm it and its people, points of discussion need to be raised.     So please bear with me      On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Bill into law.  According to the US Government's website, ssa.org , “ The Social Security Act established two types of provisions for old-age security: (1) Federal aid to the States to enable them to provide cash pensions to their needy aged, and (2) a system of Federal old-age benefits for retired workers. The first measure was design...