Republican Party

Rick Perry Really, Really Hates Social Security

This this actually the basic Republican position on Social Security.

Asked by a woman in the crowd about Social Security being viewed as an entitlement program, Perry reiterated the suggestion in his anti-Washington book, Fed Up!, that the program amounts to a Ponzi scheme.

“It is a Ponzi scheme for these young people. The idea that they’re working and paying into Social Security today, that the current program is going to be there for them, is a lie,” Perry said. “It is a monstrous lie on this generation, and we can’t do that to them.”

Like most of the Republican Party, his solution to this "lie" is to systematically destroy Social Security by either privatizing it or making it a state-run program.