Rick Perry made waves; lot’s of waves. He compared Social Security to a Ponzi Scheme. And in so doing, open a massive wave of defense for the gentle program. I suspect that more people have issue with the implicit, or explicit, slight on Social Security than they do with the actual definitions of the scheme itself.
In other words, I firmly believe that people are afraid to admit that their faith in the program called Social Security is more based on emotion than on actual facts. This can be demonstrated whenever you enter into a conversation with anyone on the topic of Social Security reform.
Anyway. I was willing to let sleeping dogs lie, but then I found these two gems, back to back, in the Letters to the Editor page of my local newspaper.
Ugh.
