So The Republicans Don’t Want to Take Grandma’s Social Security?

I keep hearing this argument from conservatives. If they really mean it they cannot accept Governor Perry as the Republican nominee.

Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) has made it quite clear that he believes Social Security is an unconstitutional “Ponzi scheme.” In his book Fed Up!, Perry writes that Social Security is “by far the best example” of a program “violently tossing aside any respect for our founding principles.” Today, at the Iowa State Fair, Perry responded to a question from Politico’s Ben Smith by saying that he thinks one of the ways to deal with his vehement objections to Social Security is to simply send the program to the states and let them figure out what to do with it:

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17 Comments

  • jcldragon says:

    You’ve been hearing that argument from Reactionaries, falsely claiming to be Conservatives. A traditional Conservative would merely be concerned that their was no graft of other malfeasance going in in social programs, and not be complaining about having them at all.

  • Mango_Chutney says:

    Many of the new breed of Conservatives absolutely want to shut down all social programs.

  • Lady_Hart says:

    But this can’t be true John. If this were true then somebody had to be a liar when they denied this is a reality. We all know Conservatives don’t lie 😐

  • Stone_Crazy says:

    If people decide to vote this time, that idiot has no chance of winning.

  • moosehammer says:

    Didn’t he secede from The United States three times already? 😉

  • Roscoe says:

    The Republicans have been spending money out of the Trustfund and whittling away at Social Security since Truman was in Office.

    The stated goal of the Ayn Rand Society is to eliminate the Socialism instituted by Roosevelt.

    It is amazing how many Republicans are members of the Ayn Rand Society.

    Ron Paul named his son, Rand.

    Ayn Rand is the Perfect Republican.

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