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What she said about Social Security was exactly correct. It wasn’t intended to be a Ponzi scheme, but that’s what it HAS morphed into. When it was brought under the general fund and Congress began stealing from it, it became a Ponzi scheme. Social Security’s problems are similar to the pension problems many states face. The money that should have been set aside to pay benefits and collect interest was spent on other stuff and now it’s time to pay the piper.
Funny, you should know the meaning of dumb, you have Joe Biden.
What she said about Social Security was exactly correct. It wasn’t intended to be a Ponzi scheme, but that’s what it HAS morphed into. When it was brought under the general fund and Congress began stealing from it, it became a Ponzi scheme. Social Security’s problems are similar to the pension problems many states face. The money that should have been set aside to pay benefits and collect interest was spent on other stuff and now it’s time to pay the piper.
This is lady is spot on. Obama’s qualification was legalized extortionist.
Now that is rich, coming from Peanut who has just said he agrees with anarchist Noam Chomsky.