(There are limits to the number of live rails Mr Ryan is willing to grasp at once: his budget leaves intact the biggest single item in the budget, Social Security, the state pension scheme).

(瑞恩先生欲一次解决问题的数量有限：他的预算方案未触及另外一个最大的项目——社会保障制度，国家养老金方案)。

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We have a national Ponzi scheme where Congress collects about $785 billion in Social Security taxes from about 163 million workers to send out $585 billion to 50 million Social Security recipients.

而我们今天要说的是一个国家发起的庞氏骗局（译者注：就是国家传销嘛），国会向一亿六千三百万工人征收了7850亿美元的社会保障税，然后再把其中的5850亿美元发给大概五千万的社保受益人。

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But his boldest move is a plan to create a social-security scheme by 2010.

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Similar to U.S. Social Security, the national pension scheme has essentially been an insurance program.

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Even Mr. Perry's declaration that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme, " much discussed in Monday's debate, has a parallel in the 1980 campaign.

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