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Rick Perry Is Now Fully Embracing His Belief That Social Security And Medicare Are Unconstitutional | Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) nine-month-old book Fed Up! claims that Social Security exists “at the expense of respect for the Constitution and limited government,” and it suggests “federal laws regulating the environment, regulating guns, protecting civil rights, establishing the massive programs and Medicare and Medicaid, creating national minimum wage laws, [and] establishing national labor laws” are all unconstitutional. Early in his presidential campaign, Perry’s spokesperson attempted to distance him from this odd reading of our founding document. The Perry campaign, however, is now eliminating any ambiguity over whether Rick Perry still believes that the Twentieth Century is unconstitutional. According to the campaign, Fed Up! “reflects [Perry's] understanding of what the role of government should look like in our lives.”