Lonewolf

There all friends of trump and yes to your question.

Mikeyavelli

FactCheck will support me. The best thing for the world is a gay Muslim Spanish speaking drug user America reliant on other people's money.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

And the lib prog motto is "Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies."

So, I'll refrain from asking you how smart you are.

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

Amen brother amen.

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

"If the Democrats aren’t removed from office in the mid-terms, this country will become a “international dumping ground and junkyard” run by a “bunch of thugs."

A v**e for Democrats is a v**e for crime and chaos. (MS13, etc)
A v**e for Democrats is a v**e for i**********n. (A****A, r**ting, etc)
A v**e for Democrats is a v**e for incivility. ( Maxine Wailer, HildaBeast, Rabbit Pellet Pelosi, Spartacus Booker, Uncle Joe etc)

tbutkovich

Right On! Eagle Eye.

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

I know of 100+ v**es they won't get.

Geo

McConnell eyes cuts to Medicare, Social Security to address deficit
10/16/18 12:41 PM
By Steve Benen
Nearly a year ago, as the debate over Republican tax breaks for the wealthy was near its end, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) insisted that the tax cuts didn’t need to be paid for – because they’d pay for themselves.

“I not only don’t think it will increase the deficit, I think it will be beyond revenue neutral,” McConnell said in December 2017. “In other words, I think it will produce more than enough to fill that gap.”

Whether the GOP leader actually believed his own rhetoric is an open question, but either way, we now know the Kentucky senator’s claim was spectacularly wrong. The Republican tax breaks have, as Democrats and those familiar with arithmetic predicted, sent the nation’s budget deficit soaring.

Take a wild guess what McConnell told Bloomberg News he wants to do about it.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday blamed rising federal deficits and debt on a bipartisan unwillingness to contain spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and said he sees little chance of a major deficit reduction deal while Republicans control Congress and the White House.

“It’s disappointing but it’s not a Republican problem,” McConnell said in an interview with Bloomberg News when asked about the rising deficits and debt. “It’s a bipartisan problem: Unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the demographics of America in the future.”

He added that he believes “Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid” funding constitutes “the real driver of the debt.”

Before we get into the broader implications of McConnell’s argument, it’s important to understand that we already know it’s the Republicans’ tax breaks for the rich that have made the deficit vastly larger. When McConnell calls the increased federal borrowing “very disturbing,” as he did this morning, it’s like watching an arsonist wring his hands over the ashes he created.

The Senate GOP leader helped create this mess; he hasn’t earned the right to complain about it.


But these relevant details are really only part of the larger issue. During the debate over the Republican tax package, Democrats made a fairly obvious prediction: GOP policymakers would blow a giant hole in the budget and then use the shortfall as an excuse to target social-insurance programs like Medicare and Social Security (often referred to as “entitlements”).

That is, of course, exactly what’s happening.

Larry Kudlow, the director of the Trump White House’s National Economic Council, recently said he wants to take aim at “entitlements” as early as “next year.” A few months earlier, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said he wants to see policymakers bring the budget closer to balance by cutting “entitlements.” Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), who currently chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, made the same argument in August.

And now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is making the identical pitch.

The e******n season has ushered in a head-spinning debate over which party truly supports pillars of modern American life such as Medicare and Social Security. Donald Trump has repeatedly said, reality be damned, v**ers should look to Republicans as the champions of these programs.

“We’re saving Social Security; the Democrats will destroy Social Security,” the president inexplicably insisted last month. “We’re saving Medicare; the Democrats want to destroy Medicare.”

But looking past Trump’s bizarre nonsense, leading Republican officials – from the White House, the Senate, and the U.S. House – keep admitting that they’re eager to cut programs like Medicare and Social Security. Maybe the public should believe them.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

"The e******n season has ushered in a head-spinning debate over which party truly supports pillars of modern American life such as Medicare and Social Security. Donald Trump has repeatedly said, reality be damned, v**ers should look to Republicans as the champions of these programs.

“We’re saving Social Security; the Democrats will destroy Social Security,” the president inexplicably insisted last month. “We’re saving Medicare; the Democrats want to destroy Medicare.”

But looking past Trump’s bizarre nonsense, leading Republican officials – from the White House, the Senate, and the U.S. House – keep admitting that they’re eager to cut programs like Medicare and Social Security. Maybe the public should believe them."

Give us a quote.

The Clintons are a proven known. Lying, self serving s**mmers to the max.
From the Ozarks to Long Island, to DC and back to New York.
We drained the DC Swamp of two more swamp rats.

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https://youtu.be/3BUUy1C0_4g

DaWg44

Not a damn Republican or Democrat has told the t***h about SS. Lyndon Johnson stole the SS Trust Fund to in his own words throw enough welfare among the “b****s” he used “N” word, that they will v**e Democrat forever. Neither party has ever thought about replacing the fund + interest. ObamaCare was designed to abolish Medicare, move everyone to Medicaid, single payer.

Anyone who thinks tax cuts to rich made a difference would flunk 5th grade math.

All politicians lie. Numbers do not. If the Govt. took all the net worth of all the rich, undefined in all these rants, even taking all the net assets of the top 25%, it would not make a dent in the deficit.

There are at least 80, being conservative, think the last list I saw was 83, other entitlement programs. If politicians did not lie SS & Medicare would be off the list.

The Govt. Is subsidizing Harvard, the richest University in the world paying wages above general private sector, not including more finge benefits, thousands of staff for elected officials, government employees who cannot be fired & brag about it. There is not a single government agency that would not run better, more economically with 50% fewer employees who had to produce or be fired. Trump’s 5% reduction is a joke just as sick as the liberal/l*****t demand for free everthing & jobs for all.

Seth

The "mobs" thing: this is typical Democrat, they can run amok to their hearts'content, laying waste to everything in their path, but that doesn't constitute a mob.

Conservatives can have a peaceful gathering or attend a Trump speech, and WE are a mob.

And the left categorically denies the existence of any double standards on their part.

I recently debated a liberal and asked at least a dozen times, "Why are you people, as an example at universities and on social media, so hell bent on silencing conservative opinion?"

I never once got even an attempted answer to my question. Instead, each time I asked the question I got a lot of the same bumper sticker rhetoric one receives from AirFarceOne.

In fact, no matter which forums I've asked that same simple question at, I have yet to receive an answer.

debeda

Then why is social security giving raises? The Clinton administration gutted Medicare to fund Medicaid- that was the time people had to begin to buy "supplemental policies" . Obamas reign continued that work. I think your post is horse hockey.

debeda

AGREED. The most they'll say is "Look at charlottesville". Dumb a$$e$.

Seth

I fear "Charlottesville" will be their new rallying cry over the next 50 years on everything from Medicare to Housing and Urban Development issues.