Fact Check: Social Security, Health Care and More
September 12, 2011, 8:56 pm
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Perry Debates Himself on Social Security
As Gov. Rick Perry of Texas was assailed by some rivals for the Republican presidential nomination at Monday night’s debate for his misleading claim that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, he also seemed to be debating himself at times.
Mr. Perry used the debate to talk about the need to shore up Social Security, which politicians on the left and the right agree is needed if the program is to be able to continue paying out full benefits a quarter of a century from now. But in making his case, Mr. Perry both exaggerated the problems facing Social Security and adopted a very different tone than he did in his book “Fed Up” just a year ago, in which he described Social Security as a failure that “we have been forced to accept for more than 70 years now.”
At the debate, Mr. Perry said Social Security had to be fixed so that “our children actually know that there’s going to be a retirement program there for them.”
But in the past, as Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, correctly pointed out, Mr. Perry has repeatedly suggested that Social Security, which pays benefits to 56 million Americans, is undesirable, and that it may even be unconstitutional.
(More here.)
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Perry Debates Himself on Social Security
As Gov. Rick Perry of Texas was assailed by some rivals for the Republican presidential nomination at Monday night’s debate for his misleading claim that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, he also seemed to be debating himself at times.
Mr. Perry used the debate to talk about the need to shore up Social Security, which politicians on the left and the right agree is needed if the program is to be able to continue paying out full benefits a quarter of a century from now. But in making his case, Mr. Perry both exaggerated the problems facing Social Security and adopted a very different tone than he did in his book “Fed Up” just a year ago, in which he described Social Security as a failure that “we have been forced to accept for more than 70 years now.”
At the debate, Mr. Perry said Social Security had to be fixed so that “our children actually know that there’s going to be a retirement program there for them.”
But in the past, as Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, correctly pointed out, Mr. Perry has repeatedly suggested that Social Security, which pays benefits to 56 million Americans, is undesirable, and that it may even be unconstitutional.
(More here.)
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