Perry’s scorn for Social Security won’t be issue in GOP primary

[struggle4progress]

9:24 am August 26, 2011, by Jay <Bookman>

In his 2010 book “Fed Up,”, Texas Gov. Rick Perry didn’t hold back in expressing his scorn for Social Security and Medicare.

Social Security, he wrote, is a “Ponzi scheme,” “a crumbling monument to the failure of the New Deal” created “at the expense of respect for the Constitution and limited government.”

It’s going to be fascinating to see how that language plays out politically. In a recent CNN poll, 64 percent of Americans said they oppose making “major changes in Social Security and Medicare” as a means of addressing the debt problem, while only 35 percent supported the idea. Those numbers suggest that Perry’s statements could become a serious problem in a general election ...

http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/08/26/perrys-scorn-for-social-security-wont-be-issue-in-gop-primary/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog

[rurallib]

1. someone ought to pass a petition around at a Perry rally for supporters

to voluntarily give up SS and medicare in a show of solidarity with Perry.

[gateley]

2. I'd love to see that! nt