Flashback 2007: Tim Russert and Chris Matthews Agree Social Security Is 'A Bad Ponzi Scheme'

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/09/13/flashback-2007-tim-russert-and-chris-matthews-agree-social-security-b ^

[macquire]

What should be interesting to participants and pundits alike is that during the last presidential campaign, on November 5, 2007, the late Tim Russert, and Chris Matthews, while talking about the Democrat candidates on an episode of MSNBC's "Hardball" broadcast exactly one year before America elected its first black president, agreed that Social Security was "a bad Ponzi scheme" (video follows with transcript and commentary.

[macquire]

Let's just hope that today's seniors, myself included, are not going to let the Democrats demonize those that want to fix social security for the next generations.

[Clock King]

There’s a “good” ponzi scheme?

[MichaelCorleone]

That was before chris’ leg tingled...

[jeffc]

I guess it’s only OK when liberals call it that, huh?

[traderrob6]

Get with it King, it’s not whether it’s a crime but, rather, what’s the intent.

[Graybeard58]

Let's just hope that today's seniors, myself included, are not going to let the Democrats demonize those that want to fix social security for the next generations.

It's an effective strategy for them, why would they abandon it? The same is true with the old "the republican candidate is a dunce and ours is an intellectual".