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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 16 > The biggest Ponzi schemes in the nation?

The biggest Ponzi schemes in the nation?

As fewer and fewer pay into our largest social spending programs (think Social Security), a quick fix is further and further out of reach

By Tom Raum / The Bulletin
August 16, 2009

As Congress agonizes over health care, an even more daunting and dangerous challenge is bearing down: how to shore up Social Security to keep it from burying the nation ever deeper in debt.

What to do about mushrooming government payments as millions of baby boomers retire? How about a giant....

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