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Thursday, September 08, 2011

Rick Perry and Rick Santelli are right and Tom Friedman is wrong: Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme - or pyramid

PERRY IS GREAT:



SANTELLI IS THE GREATEST!:



WIKI DEFINITION:
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors, not from any actual profit earned by the organization, but from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors.

[...]
  1. Since the scheme requires a continual stream of investments to fund higher returns, once investment slows down, the scheme will begin to collapse under its own weight as the promoter starts having problems paying the promised returns (the higher the returns, the greater the risk of the Ponzi scheme collapsing). Such liquidity crises often trigger panics, as more people start asking for their money, similar to a bank run.
  2. External market forces, such as a sharp decline in the economy (e.g. Madoff and the market downturn of 2008), cause many investors to withdraw part or all of their funds; not necessarily due to loss of confidence in the investment, but simply due to underlying market fundamentals. In the case of Madoff, the fund could no longer appear normal after investors tried to withdraw $7 billion from the firm in late 2008 as part of the major worldwide market downturn affecting all investments.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT SOCIAL SECURITY DOES:

IT PAYS OUT TO CURRENT RECIPIENTS ONLY WHAT CURRENT AND FUTURE PAYEES PUT IN: IT GIVES TO THE CURRENT GENREATION OF RETIRES BY TAKING AWAY FROM THE CURRENT AND FUTURE TAXED WORKERS.

THAT'S A PYRAMID. A PONZI SCHEME.

THE ONLY REASON IT HAS STAYED AFLOAT UP TO NOW WAS BY INCREASING THE AMOUNT INPUT AND/OR BY LOWERING THE AMOUNT OUTPUT.

THAT'S A PYRAMID. A PONZI SCHEME.

A PERSONALIZED PENSION SYSTEM THAT WOULD REQUIRE PEOPLE AND THEIR EMPLOYERS TO INPUT 7% INTO A PERSONAL ACCOUNT WHICH CAN ONLY BUY T-BILLS AND OTHER GOVERNMENT BONDS WOULD BE BETTER FOR THE PENSIONER AND HIS FAMILY.

IT WOULD BE INHERITABLE - UNLIKE SS TRUST FUNDS WHICH ARE "INHERITED" BY THE GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY.

THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS THE BIGGEST SCREWING THE WORKING CLASS EVER GOT:

BECAUSE A WORKING MAN IS NEVER GONNA COLLECT ALL HE PUT IN AND THE INTEREST - AND BECAUSE HE CAN'T PASS IT ON TO HIS KIDS, IT ESSENTIALLY TRANSFERS MONEY FROM THE WORKING MAN TO THE GOVERNMENT.


THE RICH DON'T NEED IT, AND SINCE IT STOPS COLLECTING AT $106,000 IT ONLY SCREWS THE WORKING CLASS, THE MIDDLE CLASS.

SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT A MIDDLE CLASS ENTITLEMENT; IT'S A GOVERNMENT ENTITLEMENT, AND IT'SS THE POLITICIANS WHO THINK THEY'RE ENTITLED TO KEEP IT!

2 comments:

goldwater3 said...

perry is a phony, he has a history of adopting some buzz phrases, but he's purely in this for himself.

neither he nor santelli have a track record, and you can't find a single video or single article by them, from 2008 or prior, discussing the very important ideas that ron paul has brought to the table and kept them there for 30 years.

santelli has been very supportive of ron paul, but I'm very disappointed of santelli carrying perry's water.

most supporters of ron paul know social security is unsalvageable, for years.

ron knew it for decades. you people are so gullible, a thief walks up to your door and says "social security is a ponzi scheme", you would open your door wide open and let him in, cause you're an idiot.

and that's because you choose style over substance. the immmediate, the shallow, over proven track records and honesty.

a thief, or rick perry tells me "social security is a ponzi scheme", I say "beat it!, get the hell out of here, you little guttersnipe."

as if mere agreeable words are some kind of magic "pass".

Here's Ron Paul's more recent analysis of Social Security. Written in 2004.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul215.html

Reliapundit said...

MARL LEVIN IS RIGHT:

YOU RONPAUL GUYS ARE ALMOST ALL NUTJOBS!

YOU DON'T KNOW A FUCKING THING ABOUT ME, BUT CAL ME GULLIBLE.

FUCK YOU YOU MORON.

SOCIAL SECURITY IS CERTAINLY SALVAGEABLE; BUT IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO PUMP IT UP; IT WOULD BE BETTER TO REPLACE IT FOR THE KIDS ENTERING THE JOB POOL, WITH A PERSONALIZED PLAN.

NOW SCRAM YOU FUCKING IDJIT.