Thanks MPete. I get ticked off by people like Perry quipping about SS being a Ponzi scheme. As you point out, it is a fraud intended to be such and nothing else. And, of course, it is illegal and it is intended to benefit usually only one person or a small group of people.

It reminds me of something else I get ticked off about and that is people referring to some program or effort as a war. I was in a war. I know what war is. I resent the use of the term war to describe efforts to defeat organized crime or poverty, for example, as wars.