It’s really hard to see that as an equal issue when one of those sides is literally in charge of creating & enforcing the law.

People proclaiming stupidities is a problem that is magnitudes smaller than an administration with the ability and will to perform stupidities

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Social Security is an investment in the health of our society, it’s not a financial instrument. You can’t pool risk and get predictable returns without cutting corners & dropping high-risk members (hello health insurance industry).

It’s not a Ponzi Scheme by definition.

It IS a scheme, in that it’s a system, plan, or action.

It is NOT a Ponzi Scheme because it does not promise investment returns or exaggerate profitability.

It’s there to keep retirees & the disabled out of abject poverty, which does not provide returns you can usually see on a balance sheet. Greater good & all that…

Not “all of a sudden”, the reason he was even there in the first place was to negotiate minerals AND security