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Retirees Grill Perry on Social Security; Texas Gov. Uses Pastry Defense
Texas Governor and newly hatched Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry yesterday found a unique way to avoid answering a New Hampshire voter’s question about Perry’s claim that Social Security is “unconstitutional.” He stuffed his mouth so full of a traditional New Hampshire popover, he couldn’t talk, reports ABC News.
In Perry’s 2010 book, Fed Up, he called Social Security “a crumbling monument to the failure of the New Deal…[and] a bad disease” and wrote that the nation’s most successful social safety net violated the U.S. Constitution. For more on Perry’s claim, click here for a look from The Wall Street Journal and here from Think Progress.
When Perry showed up at Popovers Bakery and Cafe in Portsmouth, he was greeted by two dozen members of the Alliance for Retired Americans who had a far different take on the constitutionality of Social Security. But they sure wanted to hear Perry try to explain his views. Here’s how ABC described the scene.
Inside the cafe, Gail Mitchell and a companion grilled him: “You said Social Security was unconstitutional.”
“Social Security’s going to be there for those folks,” Perry answered his inquisitors.
“But you said Social Security is unconstitutional,” Mitchell repeated.
“I don’t think I—I’m sorry, you must have,” Perry said before stopping himself.
Instead of elaborating, Perry stuffed a generous piece of popover in his mouth. (Perry called them “pop ups.”)
“I’ve got a big mouthful,” Perry said.
Images of John Belushi’s “Bluto” Blutarsky’s “Animal House” cafeteria trick spring to mind.
Mitchell and the other Alliance members shouldn’t feel singled out by Perry’s dodge, duck and stuff strategy. As ABC reported:
Perry did his best to ignore the heckling, and he also did his best to ignore questions from the awaiting press.
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But isn’t this what ALL Repugnant Partians do ????? Just like what Christine O’Donnell, the former Delaware Repugnican Senate candidate did when she walked off CNN’s Piers Morgan’s television program when she was asked about what she said in her book????
Nobody is ever going to get straight, honest answers from a Repugnican, all they do is lie and deceive and spew tapiocca pudding-sweet propaganda — UNLESS you are behind closed doors in an ultra-secret clandestine tyrannical meeting to exploit the public and send our nation into another illegal war for commerce!
Gov Perry is well aware of the Problems with Social Security. Bernie Madoff is now in prison for the same scam. Take peoples money with the promise of investing and paid back at a later date. Madoff spent the money using new customers to pay out old ones until there wasn’t enough coming in to keep up. Congress took our money making the same promise to invest and return at a later date. But Congress like Madoff spent the money and finds themselves in the same situtation. So now Congress has to come up with a scam to get rid of Social Security. Madoff is in prison and his assets seized, WHY is CONGRESS, not only free BUT drawing FULL PAY and Benefits with the ability to try and get away with it. LOCK THEM UP!
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PROPOSED LEGISLATION THAT WOULD PRESERVE SOCIAL SECURITY INTO PERPETUITY
By John M. Bachar, Jr.
The analysis of Social Security (SS), not to be found anywhere else, for the 16 year period, 1993 through 2008, has been done. The central result is that easy structural changes can be made to the SS taxation system by an act of Congress that will easily provide for sufficient annual contributions and Trust Fund assets growth to take care of the retirement needs of the increasingly aging population into perpetuity, as well as the replacement of the existing 73-year old regressive SS taxation system (only salaries/wages are taxed below a certain amount called the “cap”) by a progressive one (i.e., the taxation of all income, not merely salaries/wages, at a rate that increases with increasing income), and without reducing retirement benefits nor increasing the retirement age. Please click on:
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John M. Bachar, Jr.
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
California State University Long Beach (CSULB)
Bio
I am a Mathematician with a 50+ year record of research and university teaching (to summarize; Ph.D. UCLA, 1969; M.S. Northwestern University, 1955; 36 years teaching at CSULB; dozens of research conferences; director of research conferences; research papers). In addition to the world of pure mathematics in academia, I have analyzed and written about dozens of issues that are in the Public Interest, with particular emphasis on the inherent mathematical content of such issues.
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Governor Perry was getting ready to put his feet in his mouth. Of course, he will have trouble getting his left foot in!