{"id":56840,"date":"2011-08-15T15:28:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/56840\/republicans-grandmas-social-security\/"},"modified":"2011-08-15T15:28:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:28:22","slug":"republicans-grandmas-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/56840\/republicans-grandmas-social-security\/","title":{"rendered":"So The Republicans Don&#8217;t Want to Take Grandma&#8217;s Social Security?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing this argument from conservatives.  If they really mean it they cannot accept Governor Perry as the Republican nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) has made it quite clear that he believes Social Security is an unconstitutional \u201cPonzi scheme.\u201d In his book Fed Up!, Perry writes that Social Security is \u201cby far the best example\u201d of a program \u201cviolently tossing aside any respect for our founding principles.\u201d Today, at the Iowa State Fair, Perry responded to a question from Politico\u2019s 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:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/08\/15\/296096\/perry-states-social-securit\/\">Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cPonzi scheme.\u201d In his book Fed Up!, Perry writes that Social Security is \u201cby far the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,11,1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-people","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}