Yes, except with a Ponzi scheme you can get out when you realize you’ve been burned. You can’t get out of Social Security. You can file a Title 5 Administrative Rescission, but they may or may not accept it.
Not a “scheme.”
A SCAM.”
Social Security is the program which most clearly identifies the socialist lie inherent in the “New Deal.”
Or, as Thatcher said, “Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them.”
Or, as I say: “It is not a virtue to be generous with other people’s money.”