Republicans going to cut social security
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'Damaging cuts' to Medicare and Social Security are looking more likely with McCarthy as House Speaker. Here's what it will mean for retirees.
No way that Dems will use this against them.
No way that Dems will use this against them.
Idiots abound. Says gas stoves won't be banned when the US Government is debating it at the current time. Also says Medicare will be cut by Republicans when no Republican is even mentioning it.
Ya'll are about as logical as the 5 year old banana in the back seat of my son's car.
See it works like this on the Left:
If in FY 1 you spend 30% above the current baseline, then in FY 2 you only spend 20% above the current baseline you just "cut" spending by 10%!
To them, less of more is less than more of more....particularly when you're borrowing money we don't even have to spend
You can't balance a checkbook snifftard. You will do what we tell you to do and we might let your fat girlfriend rub your balls.
Key House minority leaders threaten to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare
There is concrete evidence that key House minority leaders plan to hold the borrowing cap hostage, threatening a catastrophic U.S. default unless they get the cuts they seek to Social Security and Medicare. According to Bloomberg Government reporting, four House Republicans, all vying to be the next House Budget Committee chair, have indicated that they plan to hold the debt ceiling hostage to Social Security and Medicare cuts if their party regains the House majority:- Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) has indicated that raising the retirement age for Social Security and the eligibility age for Medicare would be commonsense changes. Currently, 67 is the age at which Social Security provides full retirement benefits. Mathematically, increasing the retirement age for Social Security is the same as a Social Security benefit cut, which would harm beneficiaries. In addition, many workers can barely continue working until they reach the current Medicare eligibility age of 65, if they can reach it at all while still working. Raising the age of eligibility would exacerbate these hardships.
- Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) has stressed his desire to cut spending in conjunction with raising the debt ceiling: “Our main focus has got to be on nondiscretionary [spending] — it has got to be on entitlements.” The two largest so-called entitlement programs—but more correctly, earned benefits programs—are Social Security and Medicare, which are funded through payroll taxes.
- Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) has stated his wish to establish means testing—setting income eligibility levels—for Social Security and Medicare: “We should ensure that we keep the promises that were made to the people who really need it, the people who are relying on it. So some sort of means-testing potentially would help to ensure that we can do that.” Means testing refers to the policy of providing no benefits to the people with incomes or assets above a certain level. But workers at all income and asset levels have worked to earn their Social Security and Medicare benefits and rely on them as well.
- Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), currently the ranking Republican member on the House Budget Committee, has indicated that he wants to use debt limit talks to extract concessions from President Biden on entitlements and spending. He has said that Congress must use every tool at its disposal “to right size the federal government” and that “[t]he debt ceiling absolutely is one of those tools.” Smith is a member of the Republican Study Committee, whose budget proposed raising the Social Security and Medicare eligibility ages and even supported privatizing Social Security. Smith is hoping to chair the House Ways and Means Committee if his party gains a majority but has said that if he does not get that job, he would want to chair the Budget Committee; either way, he would likely play an influential role on the debt limit.
- Finally, and perhaps most important, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the House minority leader and the prohibitive favorite to become House speaker if his party gains a majority, indicated in a recent Punchbowl News interview that he would use the debt ceiling to force cuts to critical programs: “You can’t just continue down the path to keep spending and adding to the debt. … [Y]ou got to change your current behavior. We’re not just going to keep lifting your credit card limit, right?”
When asked whether changes to Medicare and Social Security would be part of debt ceiling discussions, McCarthy said he would not “predetermine” anything. In other words, Social Security and Medicare changes are on the table.
Do you think 10% of Americans are disabled?
You fall for that stuff every election......But.....I have all I need because I did what I needed to do......you're the one that needs to be worried......but,I know that there is plenty of homeless space in LA and San Fran....and hell, places like Montreal and Toronto even have space underground if you wanted to go north.
Probably a lot Veterans in that group. I guess we could send some more to Ukraine and make the number higher. Then return to the Obama level VA care. That sounds like a lot of fun. Unfortunately at the rate this administration is going we will need to draft them.
I'm going to live to be 100 just to spend the money that you were supposed to get
[poop]I'm going to live to be 100 just to spend the money that you were supposed to get
Hope you make it. I don't like my odds.
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if they keep spending...
they might have to cut EVERYTHING....
ONE TRILLION IN INTEREST PAYMENTS IS JUST RETARDED...
they might have to cut EVERYTHING....
ONE TRILLION IN INTEREST PAYMENTS IS JUST RETARDED...
I can't wait to prescribe dog food to my geriatric patients. And damn, the leftist idiots running the **** will have a program for that too. Because they care. Dumb A$$es!
Leftists don't believe the government actually runs any deficits because they honestly believe all the money comes from and belongs to government anyway. So why does government ever have to worry about paying debt if it owns all the money?
(they really believe this!)
