Showing posts with label Paul O'Neill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul O'Neill. Show all posts

Saturday, April 25, 2009

O'Neill on Social Security/Medicare: Ponzi Scheme

Paul O'Neill on Social Security and Medicare:

We've been spending money all along. It's a giant fraud; it's a giant Ponzi scheme. Every year we took the money and we spent it on other things.

There's a so-called famous lockbox in West Virginia I went to look at when I was secretary of the Treasury. You know what's in the lockbox? Actually it's a filing cabinet, and there are some pieces of paper that say, "We owe you." There's no money there; there are no investments there. There's nothing there but a piece of paper. That's a fraud.

People think, "Hey, I put money all my life in Social Security and Medicare." You didn't really. The government just took it and spent it on something else. There's no money there.

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