That didn’t take long . . . for all those who were sure that the Republicans would consider messing with Social Security too dangerous politically.
Mean old men in charge–rich ones, only, that is.
“Slashing Social Security and ending Medicare are absolutely not what the American people voted for in November.”
Trump: “Psych!”
Ok now we know “the Johnson’s” plan. Deform SS into the beast it has always been in his mind, and let the next generation of granny starvers finish it off with “moar reform”.
Too slick by half.
There’s an error in this story, as relates to the title of the act. It’s The Rape and Pillage Act of 2016. (The 2017 version will include doing away with Obamacare and Medicare.)
And don’t forget that a day or two after the election, when Paul Ryan started talking about privatizing Medicare and Social Security, Trump indicated he was 100% on board.
They’re all crawling out from under their rocks.
®, Texas.
You don’t say !
They’re making plans to kill the ACA, Medicare, and now Social Security. Will we get to keep our roads and schools, or are they going to have to go, as well?
At this point I honestly think Ryan and Trump are equally menacing and malevolent figures. Trump’s a brutal looter. But Ryan wants to undo every reform, every advance made for the poor and middle class since the Gilded Age. He’s dangerously insane in a whole different way.
You’ll have to pay for it all. Go get a quart of milk, pay the toll. No more “free stuff,” you dirty Democrats.
Democrats must “hold Trump’s feet to the fire” on this. Hang it on Trump and shout it over and over again what Trump is doing to SS and Medicare. Democrats must get their messaging out in the open and pound it into the heads of those Trump voters what he is doing to SS and Medicare.
The Democrats had better start raising this issue in the news and make sure seniors, half of whom voted for Trump, understand what he is going.
Yeah, but emails . Clinton’s emails!
“Most workers would see cuts – some of them drastic.”
America’s 115th: The Catfood Congress™
You may think you’re joking, but public schools are in serious danger.
So, this is all the change the Trump supporters wanted? Yep! He really has the best interests of “real” Americans at heart.
Yes, I realize this isn’t a Trump proposal, but I rather doubt he would veto this or any bill to eliminate Medicare.
Assholes. I tell my children that you don’t really hate such and such. However, I fucking hate most of the people in the GOP.
Immediately call your members of Congress. And call and call daily.
You have to understand the pattern here in the context of the evisceration of Medicare as well. The plutocrats/oligarchs view lengthening retirement lifespans supported by government assistance as nothing but a drain on their profits. You are economically obsolete. You are creating a need for higher taxes. You are distracting their labor (your children and grandchildren). The need for higher taxes means they have to pay them, but also that their labor has to pay them, which means they need a higher wage rate to leave them with sufficient after-tax income to survive. You’re nothing but a leech and a drain on society and it is in everyone’s best economic interests that you die quickly. So of course they would set the system up to screw you more and more with deeper and deeper cuts the longer you live…after all, the whole point is to encourage you to die and save them the expense. It all comes back to them thinking of human beings as commodities, not people.
Rest assured - I get it. Mrs. CharlieE is a teacher.