https://redstate.com/erick/2011/08/31/ezra-klein-must-lie-to-win-his-argument/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 15:06:54 -0400<![CDATA[Ezra Klein is the twenty something leftwing hack who has never had a real job in the private sector beyond the lefty think tank and pundit shops in DC. Somehow or another he got a cushy gig pretending to be objective at the Washington Post where he continues to mouth off on economic policy from a decidedly left-wing bent.It&#8217;s gotten so bad that Ezra Klein is forced to play word games and lie to win an argument on social security. Klein wants to win an argument against the Republicans on social security. So what does he do? He has to reinvent a new definition of ponzi scheme.Klein relies on liberal blogger/polisci guy Jonathan Bernstein to give him his definition, which is to define a ponzi scheme as &#8220;a fraud that relies on new investors being unaware of the program’s financing mechanism.&#8221; And OH MY GOSH!!!!! social security is fully transparent therefore it cannot be a Ponzi scheme.EZRA IS BETTER THAN WELL WHO CARES. HE WINS!!!!! Except he only wins by willfully changing the definition of a ponzi scheme. I say willfully because he can&#8217;t be that stupid can he?]]>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:06:45 -0400<![CDATA[Erick Erickson]]>https://redstate.com/erick/2011/08/31/ezra-klein-must-lie-to-win-his-argument-n40239