{"id":4565,"date":"2011-09-10T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2011-09-10T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T21:21:14","slug":"social-security-a-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4565","title":{"rendered":"Social Security: &#8220;A Ponzi Scheme&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Perry got into a bit of trouble this week for speaking truth about Social Security. Mona Charen asks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/276679\/did-perry-blow-it-social-security-mona-charen\" target=\"_blank\">whether he blew it <\/a>by referring to it as a Ponzi scheme while others argue it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/mr-perry-social-security-is-no\" target=\"_blank\">something much worse<\/a>. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2011\/09\/tom-friedman-explains.php\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Johnson<\/a>) But the bigger question addressed in this post is <a href=\"http:\/\/ricochet.com\/main-feed\/What-s-Wrong-With-the-Truth\" target=\"_blank\">whether we should be saving Social Security at all.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Perry got into a bit of trouble this week for speaking truth about Social Security. Mona Charen asks whether he blew it by referring to it as a Ponzi scheme while others argue it&#8217;s something much worse. (Hat tip: Scott Johnson) But the bigger question addressed in this post is whether we should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,12],"tags":[723,722,721],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-taxes","category-politics","category-tom","tag-ponzi-scheme","tag-rick-perry","tag-social-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}