Call for $2.5 Trillion in Cuts Proves GOP Wants to 'Steal Our Benefits'
"Nearly 60% of mandatory spending is for Medicare and Social Security," noted one expert. "If they don't touch those, they'd have to cut Medicaid to the bone."
Are they trying to start a war? Cutting benefits will make people desperate, and desperate people do desperate things.
Well they sure as fsck canāt raise taxes on the richā¦
Alms Arms for the poor.
Oh the poor are armed
Funny how you had all these interviews with older MAGAs talking about their benefits and not getting enough and expecting Trump to help them...
Wonder how they'll explain that.
Blame the Democrats, as is tradition.
This is one of the last major things on their list of changes that they haven't forced through the system yet.
I hope it hurts the right people. I don't use any of that stuff and the people I know who do all vote consistently right.
Two years until there is any chance of shifting the balance. I hope these wake up but I have serious doubts that will happen. I am very confident the right wing media will convince them it's the left's fault.
I don't know how they'll do it but they've honed the propaganda skills necessary to make it happen.
Seeing stuff like this hurts to read. Sure a large majority who get hurt will probably be "those people" Sure it's great it doesn't affect you personally. It all just sounds incredibly callous and privileged to dismiss the suffering of others.
My fiancee and her mother have been spending every minute of visiting hours at the hospital. My fiancee's father has been teetering on the verge of death. Their benefits and insurance are on the cutting block. Upon hearing about this news he mother came to us crying because she doesn't know what they will do without it.
These are retired veterans who put in their time and have always voted left and for progressive policies. They are also some of the most caring and supportive people I've ever met. My fiancee often jokes that her mom loves me more than my own mother.
I don't have any good solution, but it feels like it would be better not to wish for harm to befall people because it doesn't impact you or any good people you know.
Waiting for them to start talking about "entitlements".
Do I feel entitled? Well, I've been paying into the system since 1987, shit yeah I feel entitled.
Do it. Force our hands. Stain the future such that we can no longer just watch.
We will write down those fuckers names, to put on the naughty list.
They call it the third rail for a reason. And if any of those morons rode public transportation, they'd know why.
That's going to make a lot of people upset. I don't recommend doing that.
But then again, I can use reasoning to gauge whether a certain action will have a certain outcome.