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No doubt you have been hearing about the clashes among the
GOP presidential candidates during debates that can make them or break them.
Rick Perry would never be a candidate I could ever vote for
mainly because he is a religious nut case and a Neanderthal on social issues
but he has charisma and he does not back down from a taken position like Romney
does.
The other candidates jumped on Perry because he called
Social Security a Ponzi scheme. Well it is. Ponzi would pay investors with
money he would collect from new investors and kept that up until the whole
thing collapsed. Social Security pays retired workers with money supplied by
new workers or actively employed workers. Since costs have been going up
constantly, there will be a point where more money is going out than coming in
at which point the whole scheme becomes unsustainable.
Perry, it seems, is just saying that things need to be fixed
or altered in the Social Security system or the system will fail. We all know
that but I think he went out of his way to scare the hell out of people that
will depend on Social Security as their ONLY pension benefit and now has to
explain himself and exactly what he intends to do.
He was attacked for mandating the vaccine against cervical
cancer for every little girl in Texas
Michelle Bachmann attacked Perry for forcing a vaccine that
could potentially harm girls, echoing the moronic and very harmful nonsense
promoted by Jenny McCarthy saying the preservative in vaccines (thymersol)
causes autism.
McCarthy persuaded countless parents not to vaccinate their
children causing disease we thought we wiped out, to re-emerge again
endangering children’s lives based on information by a rogue researcher that
has been prosecuted for fabricating his data just to get back at pharmaceutical
companies or something to that effect.
Bachmann, never the one with all he facts straight, tried to
defend her position saying she met a woman that told her, her daughter became
ill after getting the vaccine against cervical cancer; she believed one
strangers account? This is what she would base her actions on…rumors?
Bachmann then accused Perry of ordering the vaccines because
he got a big donation from the company making the vaccine. He did get a
donation but was that his motivation? Perry said he just wanted to prevent
cancer!
All I can say is that the debates are interesting but oh so
sad…
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