NEW: In clips from his radio show as mayor, Mike Bloomberg repeatedly called for making cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. He repeatedly called social security a Ponzi scheme.
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"I don't know if Bernie Madoff got his idea from there, but if there's ever a Ponzi scheme, people say Madoff was the biggest? Wrong. Social Security is, far and away," Bloomberg said in a January 2009.
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Bloomberg said it was "a joke" to you could solve the deficit without cutting entitlements, saying entitlements will "bankrupt us."
"We're going to cut back Medicaid and Medicare, we're going to have to do something," he said in 2011.
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"We're going to cut back Medicaid and Medicare, we're going to have to do something," he said in 2011.
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"Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the prescription thing," Bloomberg said in December 2011. "All of these things are nice things, but none of them are funded in a sustainable way."
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