Hot Air » Ponzi scheme http://hotair.com The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Rick Perry in USA Today: I am going to be honest with the American people http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/12/rick-perry-in-usa-today-i-am-going-to-be-honest-with-the-american-people/ http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/12/rick-perry-in-usa-today-i-am-going-to-be-honest-with-the-american-people/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:05:53 +0000 Tina Korbe http://hotair.com/?p=156991

Straight shooter.

For too long, politicians have been afraid to speak honestly about entitlement reform — but the American people deserve the facts, Texas Gov. Rick Perry writes in an op-ed that appeared Monday in USA Today. Perry provides the cold, hard truth: Social Security’s unfunded liability is calculated in the trillions of dollars. Last year, annual [...]

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Is the nation ready for entitlement reform?

Michele Bachmann has been called a “bomb-thrower” before — she’s not exactly known for her diplomacy — but, when it comes to Social Security, she says no need exists to scare people with extreme rhetoric. Is that a reference to Rick Perry’s refreshing talk of monstrous lies and Ponzi schemes? Sure — but Bachmann also [...]

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