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Rick Perry: “You cannot keep the status quo in place and not call it anything other than a Ponzi scheme. It is.”

On the recordSeptember 6, 2011
You cannot keep the status quo in place and not call it anything other than a Ponzi scheme. It is.
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Rick Perry

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Perry defends his characterization of Social Security as a Ponzi scheme.

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