Senator John Thune: Top Senate Republican threatens to tank the economy if he can't cut Social Security

[HereWeGoAgain]

Joe Potatohead is tanking the economy all by himself. He is doing an excellent job of screwing this country and does not need help from anybody.

And he's doing it on purpose.
Or should I say his handlers are doing it on purpose....

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

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.

 

[Lesh]

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.

TAI News

Reporting for progress

americanindependent.com

Does Thune understand who owns the Social Security money? What do you think?

Just weeks ago republicans SWORE they had no designs on Social Security.

NEVER believe them

NEVER

 

[Harry Dresden]

Just weeks ago republicans SWORE they had no designs on Social Security.

NEVER believe them

NEVER

you should never believe either party until you see it happening.....

 

[Lakhota]

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.

prospect.org

 

[Lesh]

you should never believe either party until you see it happening.....

Wrong. That’s when it’s too late to stop it.

Never trust a Republican

 

[Clipper]

How does ANYBODY tank the economy worse than vegetable Joe and the democrats already have over the past two years. How have you survived for as long as you have being as STOOOOPID as you are.

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]

Another example that I experienced today. An extension spring 1/2" diameter x 3" long x 12 GA,= $30. I couldn't find one in a 100 mi. radius of my house. SMFH, so my tractor has to be jury rigged so that I can plow the driveway. Biden Economy! That's the dumbest thing I've heard in years.

Cry me a river over a spring.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Just weeks ago republicans SWORE they had no designs on Social Security.

NEVER believe them

NEVER

Yeah....is it anything like you idiots who keep saying dems aren't coming for our guns?

 

[Clipper]

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.

prospect.org

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.

They'll stomp their feet & blame the "libtards" & big gubmint.

 

[bodecea]

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.

TAI News

Reporting for progress

americanindependent.com

Does Thune understand who owns the Social Security money? What do you think?

Of course they hate the idea of average Americans getting the SS support they paid into during their working years.

 

[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]

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.

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]

Cry me a river over a spring.

Congrats, you win the simp award. Figure it out, moron.

 

[Lakhota]

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.

Do you blame Trump or Biden for COVID, Ukraine war, and the world-wide supply chain clusterfuck which led to inflation?

 

[CarsomyrPlusSix]

The only place where the economy is tanking is in your head.

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]

Wrong. That’s when it’s too late to stop it.

Never trust a Republican

you are wrong.....never trust either party......

 

[Lesh]

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.

And for all that, Republicans still want us to put our retirement in to the stock market

Brilliant

 

[CarsomyrPlusSix]

And for all that, Republicans still want us to put our retirement in to the stock market

Brilliant

If your socialist party's inflationary, anti-business, anti-energy, destabilizing weakness and incompetence weren't FUCKING EVERYTHING UP...

 

[pknopp]

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.