Bachmann called Social Security ‘a tremendous fraud’ in 2010...Jeez Girl STFU

[rsmith6621]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/bachmann-called-social-security-tremendous-fraud-2010-153350695.html

At Monday's Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Fla, Michele Bachmann is reportedly planning to criticize Rick Perry for calling Social Security "a Ponzi scheme," but she may want to tread lightly: Bachmann, who is trying to recapture some of the momentum her presidential campaign had built earlier this summer, made similar comments about the program just last year, and she also said last year that younger workers should be "weaned off" the program.

During an interview with the Fox Business channel in February 2010, Bachmann, a Republican representative from Minnesota, called Social Security's structure "a tremendous fraud" and said that anyone who ran a business modeled after the program would be "thrown in jail."

"It's a tremendous fraud," Bachmann told Fox Business host David Asman after he called the program "one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on the American public."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Tell that to the millions of old people who've been kept out of poverty

by Social Security for all these years.

Tell that to ME. I've been paying into it for 43 years and I will need it soon. And it had damn well better be there for me, because I paid for it.

Fuck you, Michele Bachmann.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. shove another corndog in your piehole, dumbass.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. GOP arguments right now are filled with contradictions

You just have to press them and confront them about their bullshit.

[fascisthunter]

4. more Projection... what she wants to do is Defraud Americans by lying to them about SS

she's another right wing nazi

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. anyone who ran a business modeled after the program would be "thrown in jail."

It's a government run insurance program.

Is she saying insurance company execs should be thrown in jail?

Oh, of course not. SS does not throw people off their insurance to increase their bottom line the way private insurance does.

[golfguru]

6. That explains why SS is in trouble per actuarial projections

if it was run by a corporation, taxes and benefits would be in balance.