Straw Boogie Man*or The Curtains at the end of the Yellow Brick Road.
OK, I am mixing metaphors not to mention cultural references, but that Perry sure can dish 'em. I have yet to watch the debate, but have seen some reviews and snippets.
* "It is a Ponzi scheme*** to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today, you're paying into a program that's going to be there," he said. "Anybody that's for the status quo with Social Security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids, and it's not right." [Nobody on the stage or in the Democratic Party, let alone Barack Obama is for "the status quo with Social Security". Now all he has to do is click his ruby red slippers**. BTW: The two sentences, if they are contiguous, are half non-sequitor and half depending on who the "25 or 30 year(s) old(s)" vote for.]
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** or as Ed Schultz might say, notch back the rhetoric, liberally paraphrased (and hope to link) that is.(something about hyperbole)
*** BTW: if it is a ponzi scheme, what are insurance companies? Especially when they need bailing out.
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