Senator John Thune: Top Senate Republican threatens to tank the economy if he can't cut Social Security
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HereWeGoAgain
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Looks like the stupid indian has no response other than the laugh emoji.
Clearly the indians haven't got any smarter since we kicked their ass.
Clearly the indians haven't got any smarter since we kicked their ass.
Lesh
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Just weeks ago republicans SWORE they had no designs on Social Security.Senate Minority Whip John Thune said Republicans want to hold the country's credit hostage if they can't cut Social Security benefits.
Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. Senate, said on Tuesday that the GOP plans to use the debt ceiling as leverage to make cuts to Social Security and other social safety net programs.
Does Thune understand who owns the Social Security money? What do you think?
NEVER believe them
NEVER
Harry Dresden
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you should never believe either party until you see it happening.....
Lakhota
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How the GOP Could Win Its Long War Against Social Security
Republicans have wanted to end Social Security as we know it since its inception. They may finally get their chance.
That somewhat Zen-like pronouncement came from Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) during a recent video discussion of Social Security with Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee. Kelly warned that Republicans would “all get thrown out of office [if] we told the truth” about their party’s plans for Social Security, calling it “political suicide.”
Social Security is “the third rail Republicans can’t stop touching,” in the words of a Politico headline. “Social Security and Medicare are wildly popular,” Politico notes. “So why do GOP Senate candidates keep talking about privatizing them?” But the Republican Party has been waging war on Social Security since its inception. This war, sometimes open and sometimes covert, may soon end in victory.
It began as Congress was debating the Social Security Act of 1935. Republicans attacked the program with rhetoric as extreme as that of today’s right. Rep. James W. Wadsworth (R-NY), for example, said the bill would create “a power so vast, so powerful as to threaten the integrity of our institutions and to pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants.” Republican Daniel Reed of New York said, “The lash of the dictator will be felt.”
As for Politico’s question: Why? Why would Republicans pursue such a major and unpopular change in the social contract? Why would they want to cut or privatize Social Security? Because they’ve wanted to do it for 87 years. Because, despite its unpopularity, their ideology and self-interest demand it. And because, as Republican judges, governors, and presidents have demonstrated, the party has no interest in preserving democratic norms.
The GOP disregard for democracy has a pretty long history, too. In 2003, well before the rise of Trump, historian Gould wrote that many Republicans seek “complete electoral dominance,” motivated by “the ingrained Republican sense of entitlement as the natural governing party.” Gould, a neutral enough figure to have been consulted by Karl Rove in the 2000 election, questioned “whether modern Republicans really believe in the two-party system as a core principle of politics.”
That question has been settled in recent years. If Republicans retake Congress, their long war on Social Security seems likely to end in victory.
More at the link below...
prospect.org
Republicans have wanted to end Social Security as we know it since its inception. They may finally get their chance.
That somewhat Zen-like pronouncement came from Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) during a recent video discussion of Social Security with Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee. Kelly warned that Republicans would “all get thrown out of office [if] we told the truth” about their party’s plans for Social Security, calling it “political suicide.”
Social Security is “the third rail Republicans can’t stop touching,” in the words of a Politico headline. “Social Security and Medicare are wildly popular,” Politico notes. “So why do GOP Senate candidates keep talking about privatizing them?” But the Republican Party has been waging war on Social Security since its inception. This war, sometimes open and sometimes covert, may soon end in victory.
It began as Congress was debating the Social Security Act of 1935. Republicans attacked the program with rhetoric as extreme as that of today’s right. Rep. James W. Wadsworth (R-NY), for example, said the bill would create “a power so vast, so powerful as to threaten the integrity of our institutions and to pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants.” Republican Daniel Reed of New York said, “The lash of the dictator will be felt.”
As for Politico’s question: Why? Why would Republicans pursue such a major and unpopular change in the social contract? Why would they want to cut or privatize Social Security? Because they’ve wanted to do it for 87 years. Because, despite its unpopularity, their ideology and self-interest demand it. And because, as Republican judges, governors, and presidents have demonstrated, the party has no interest in preserving democratic norms.
The GOP disregard for democracy has a pretty long history, too. In 2003, well before the rise of Trump, historian Gould wrote that many Republicans seek “complete electoral dominance,” motivated by “the ingrained Republican sense of entitlement as the natural governing party.” Gould, a neutral enough figure to have been consulted by Karl Rove in the 2000 election, questioned “whether modern Republicans really believe in the two-party system as a core principle of politics.”
That question has been settled in recent years. If Republicans retake Congress, their long war on Social Security seems likely to end in victory.
More at the link below...
How the GOP Could Win Its Long War Against Social Security
Republicans have wanted to end Social Security as we know it since its inception. They may finally get their chance.
prospect.org
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Clipper
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The only place where the economy is tanking is in your head. You Trump asslickers have been saying the economy is tanking since the day Biden took office. Still big mad because he handed Trump's ass back to him.
Try another angle, for chrissakes.
Clipper
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Cry me a river over a spring.
HereWeGoAgain
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Yeah....is it anything like you idiots who keep saying dems aren't coming for our guns?
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Wait till they find out that their Republican buddies like Rafael Cruz & Thune are going to make them work running a jackhammer or driving an 18 wheeler until they're 70 to collect SS.How the GOP Could Win Its Long War Against Social Security
Republicans have wanted to end Social Security as we know it since its inception. They may finally get their chance.
That somewhat Zen-like pronouncement came from Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) during a recent video discussion of Social Security with Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee. Kelly warned that Republicans would “all get thrown out of office [if] we told the truth” about their party’s plans for Social Security, calling it “political suicide.”
Social Security is “the third rail Republicans can’t stop touching,” in the words of a Politico headline. “Social Security and Medicare are wildly popular,” Politico notes. “So why do GOP Senate candidates keep talking about privatizing them?” But the Republican Party has been waging war on Social Security since its inception. This war, sometimes open and sometimes covert, may soon end in victory.
It began as Congress was debating the Social Security Act of 1935. Republicans attacked the program with rhetoric as extreme as that of today’s right. Rep. James W. Wadsworth (R-NY), for example, said the bill would create “a power so vast, so powerful as to threaten the integrity of our institutions and to pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants.” Republican Daniel Reed of New York said, “The lash of the dictator will be felt.”
As for Politico’s question: Why? Why would Republicans pursue such a major and unpopular change in the social contract? Why would they want to cut or privatize Social Security? Because they’ve wanted to do it for 87 years. Because, despite its unpopularity, their ideology and self-interest demand it. And because, as Republican judges, governors, and presidents have demonstrated, the party has no interest in preserving democratic norms.
The GOP disregard for democracy has a pretty long history, too. In 2003, well before the rise of Trump, historian Gould wrote that many Republicans seek “complete electoral dominance,” motivated by “the ingrained Republican sense of entitlement as the natural governing party.” Gould, a neutral enough figure to have been consulted by Karl Rove in the 2000 election, questioned “whether modern Republicans really believe in the two-party system as a core principle of politics.”
That question has been settled in recent years. If Republicans retake Congress, their long war on Social Security seems likely to end in victory.
More at the link below...
How the GOP Could Win Its Long War Against Social Security
Republicans have wanted to end Social Security as we know it since its inception. They may finally get their chance.
They'll stomp their feet & blame the "libtards" & big gubmint.
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Of course they hate the idea of average Americans getting the SS support they paid into during their working years.Senate Minority Whip John Thune said Republicans want to hold the country's credit hostage if they can't cut Social Security benefits.
Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. Senate, said on Tuesday that the GOP plans to use the debt ceiling as leverage to make cuts to Social Security and other social safety net programs.
Does Thune understand who owns the Social Security money? What do you think?
themirrorthief
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yawn, every election failing democrats lie like dogs that you are going to lose your check if democrats dont scam their way back into office....this tactic is so old it has rotted
Concerned American
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Fuel Prices 50% higher than two years ago. Inflation 9.1%. Product shortages that haven't been seen in this country in nearly a hundred years Count yourself among the morons that say this is a good economy.
Concerned American
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Congrats, you win the simp award. Figure it out, moron.
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You. Are. Fucking. Retarded.
Recession has a definition. The stock market and thus 401k and other such investments have cratered. Inflation is insane and everything costs so much more.
Oh yeah. This is working like gangbusters.
Harry Dresden
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you are wrong.....never trust either party......
Lesh
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And for all that, Republicans still want us to put our retirement in to the stock market
Brilliant
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If your socialist party's inflationary, anti-business, anti-energy, destabilizing weakness and incompetence weren't FUCKING EVERYTHING UP...
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In 2011, after the GOP took control of the House, Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling unless then-President Barack Obama agreed to significant spending cuts to the federal budget.
Oddly they did not do this when Trump was president and they held the House and Senate. They insisted on tax cuts.
Oddly they did not do this when Trump was president and they held the House and Senate. They insisted on tax cuts.
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