The most publicized campaign issue focusing on Perry -- his characterization of Social Security as a “Ponzi Scheme” -- has Americans divided. Among all respondents, 46 percent said they agree with the remark, while 50 percent said they disagree.
Among Republicans, 65 percent agree with Perry’s statements about Social Security, while 33 percent disagree.
So a significant majority of morons Republicans polled think that Social Security is akin to a criminal investment scheme whereby large sums of money are taken in by an individual, never invested as promised, and then that same individual runs away with the investor money. Mmm-hmm. Sounds just like Social Security. Not that I would expect Republicans to know any better. I'm sure they were too busy watching Fox News screech about Michelle Obama's war on school lunches to be bothered to know about a very recent example of a Ponzi scheme in the form of Bernie Madoff.
But since Republicans can't ever be bothered with elitist things like "facts," let's just skip ahead to solving the problem. Since the Republican base is too goddamned stupid to know the difference between Social Security and a Ponzi scheme and that Rick Perry is a lying asshole and spewing misinformation to justify his extremist, ideologically driven goal to dismantle America's already inept social safety net, how about they "fix" the program by volunteering to no longer receive any benefits from it?
Oh what's that? They don't want to? Yeah, figured as much.
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