Entitlement Quote by John C. Goodman

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

— Bernard Madoff

Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

— John Stossel

The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

— Dennis Prager

The federal government... announced a plan to spend, like, a trillion of taxpayer dollars to buy out bad mortgages and debt. Wall Street was…

— Bill Maher

Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of…

— Karl Hess

Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.

— Ron Johnson

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

— Rachel Maddow

Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you --…

— John Wayne

Unlike so many other conservative politicians, Paul Ryan doesn't duck from answering questions about the reality of our entitlement problem. Ryan doesn't only provide…

— Will Cain

Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am…

— Nicholas Jarecki

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money.…

— Steve Wynn

For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever…

— Addison Wiggin