{"id":5623,"date":"2011-08-16T00:54:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T07:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5623"},"modified":"2011-08-16T00:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T07:54:05","slug":"perry-goes-states-rights-on-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/perry-goes-states-rights-on-social-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry Goes States Rights on Social Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican candidate Rick Perry offers many political vulnerabilities to exploit, should he win the Republican nomination.  His desire to turn America into a Republican supply-side pseudo-Christian theocracy will not sit well with most voters.  Add to that his track record of supporting secession.  A Presidential aspirant, who would consider dropping out of the country, will be most difficult to wrap in the flag.  However, the biggest hazard he will face is his recently documented intent to destroy Social Security and Medicare.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) has made it quite clear that he believes Social Security is an unconstitutional<\/a> \u201cPonzi scheme<\/a>.\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<\/a>.\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

…Watch it: <\/p>\n