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Rick Perry sticks to claim that Social Security is a scam
Los Angeles Times ^
| August 29, 2011
| Michael Muskal
Posted on 08/29/2011 11:34:13 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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Of course it's a Ponzi scheme. My payroll taxes are spent immediately, and I'm supposed to hope that future generations will be willing to be taxed for my benefits.
To: reaganaut1
100% PONZI
I for one am glad somebody has the guts to admit it.
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:36:39 AM PDT
by
DeaconRed
(To the idiots that didn't believe us about ZERO: Hope you enjoy your less than a dollar in change.)
To: reaganaut1
Of course its a scam! One that no American can opt out of. Sooooo, we have to wait until we retire to just get our “investment” back.
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:38:51 AM PDT
by
fantail 1952
(They don't make 'em like Reagan any more. Now it takes a woman to do a mans job!)
To: reaganaut1
Well, it IS!
(I just wish I could believe that he really believes the things he says.)Oy.
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:38:51 AM PDT
by
ozark hilljilly
(Sanitized for your protection)
To: Voter#537
He’s got the guts, but this may be his downfall.
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:39:18 AM PDT
by
DRey
(Perry/Rubio 2012)
To: reaganaut1
The TRUTH is the TRUTH! Simple as that!
Social Security is, and always has been, nothing more than a government run Ponzi scheme! Anyone who doesn’t believe that should start a PRIVATE insurance company based on that exact model and see how long it take for them to throw you in jail!
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:40:07 AM PDT
by
Bigun
("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
To: DRey
You could be right, but Perry is a canny politician. It may be that he has correctly determined that the public is ready for the truth. We’ll see.
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:40:54 AM PDT
by
achilles2000
("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
To: reaganaut1
You got that one right. It should be obvious when we see the government owing SS $2.5 Trillion. They use SS taxes for the general fund and spend it all as they get it. If SS is to survive, this has to stop and repay th $2.5 Trillion.
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:40:57 AM PDT
by
RC2
To: reaganaut1
I havent backed off anything in my book. So read the book again and get it right, he said. This is a man with the right stuff to defeat Zer0 who is nothing but a team player for the leftist cronies around him.
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:42:25 AM PDT
by
jonrick46
(2012 can't come soon enough.)
To: reaganaut1
Thank you Governor Perry. You are right. This Ponzi scheme has been robbed with the deposits spent foolishly and most of Americans are ignorant of this fact.
To: reaganaut1
SS is on a perfectly sound footing, except for the math.
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:43:11 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: reaganaut1
When you've paid over a hundred grand into a scheme, it's a program.
Of course it's a ponzi scheme.
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:43:18 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
To: reaganaut1
He’s right about that.
Tax payers are diddled out of their money so Congress can appropriate it to buy votes and stay in office. PERIOD!
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:44:04 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
(A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.)
To: reaganaut1
Bernie Madoff has nothing on our own government......The fact that Perry’s statements are being called “controversial” is more proof of the complicity of the MSM in the destruction of our republic.
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:45:39 AM PDT
by
CSM
(Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
To: reaganaut1
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:45:53 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: DRey
You don’t believe that for one minute.
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:46:24 AM PDT
by
shield
(Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
To: reaganaut1
Someone cue ‘Captain Obvious’...
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:47:04 AM PDT
by
LaybackLenny
(All hail Her Royal Highness Sarah, Queen of The Hobbits)
To: reaganaut1
Oh, oh... He let the cat out of the bag.
To: reaganaut1
The truth is the truth. If I had had a private non speculative retirement portfolio and had been required to deposit into it every month I would be getting 2-3 times the return. Rick Perry is right. And Paul Ryan is right about Medicare. It would be a lot cheaper to just pay the insurance premiums for private insurance for seniors and let them choose their own doctors etc. they would get more bang for their buck and it would eliminate the waste and fraud.
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posted on
08/29/2011 11:49:38 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: reaganaut1
I absolutely loathe SS. People should get what they paid into it. They don’t. I like Chile’s system more.
Agree with others that this might be Perry’s Achilles heel for him. The Dems will harp about how Perry is such a meanie for wanting to throw Granny to the curb.
Yet watch which countries the Dem harpies flock to when SS REALLY goes belly up.
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