Posted on 06/19/2015 10:00:51 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Well actually the reason Medicare and SS are called entitlements is precisely because you pay into them all your working life. Its mandatory you have no choice. So you are entitled to receive benefits at retirement age.
Medicare caries an ongoing monthly premium.
As a side note to this thread, taxpayers had originally understood that unconstitutional Social Security was not an entitlement program.
Your S S Check THIS IS TRUE!!!
I have to say that although I like what Donny’s saying, for Republicans of whatever stripe to take him seriously ultimately denigrates or deteriorates however seriously they take themselves. This is bluster over substance, never mind his prior record. I am saying that IMHO, ultimately this is destructive. It would be less destructive if he was just a loudmouthed firebrand standing off to the side, kind of like Sarah Palin. That’s largely what he has been. And maybe this is purely a self-promotion for him, I have to consider that’s the 80% possibility. With this guy yakking away, not only do Republicans have to fend off liberal attacks (which they are dumb to keep responding to) but now they have to compete with a loudmouthed zero. Likely, it’s not for the better. I bet the GOPe loves this, because he makes all their idiots look good.
Yes
In one on one choice between Tax hike Mike and Trump I’d vote for Trump. Thankfully neither one has a chance of winning.
Who is Mike?
Huckabee. He;s a bigger phony than Trump.
Get the hook!
“I PAID IN!!! IT’S NOT AN ENTITLEMENT!!!” in 3...2...1...
So true
Well, well, well...
Let’s see the Trumpers spin this. Their hero is now, well, trying to out-liberal Huck!
I love when frauds are exposed!
OMGosh! LOL! You need your own show! Couldn’t agree with you more! ROTFL!!
On a serious note, I think Trump’s support will fade, but I confess to having some fun with the case of nerves he must surely be giving the GOPE, and all the smooooth operators out there, the politically correct, who are schmoozing it up with the Duchess of Queensbury Rules, with their low tone speechifying. I just wish he would focus on Hillary!
The ability to focus is not his strong suit, is it?
Taht will get you traction. (Sure it will.)
This, times 10^100.
Have you noticed that the GOPe is totally silent about this? They know it benefits them.
Have you noticed that the GOPe is totally silent about this? They know it benefits them.” ———
Sorry, but I don’t see how Trump’s affecting the field helps the Establishment, or helps Jeb Bush, or helps defeat Hillary.
Trump just enraged the Left, never mind the incidental kudos he paid to their personalities. He beat up mostly his own side for kicks. It was comedy in the style of Saturday Night Live.
Probably the Establishment is still trying to figure out wth he actualy said. LOL! :)
“The ability to focus is not his strong suit, is it?”
Yeah, that’s how Trump made billions of dollars, by not being able to focus on the business at hand, lol.
“I PAID IN!!! IT’S NOT AN ENTITLEMENT!!!” Screw you.
It depends on what you mean by the word, “focus”.
Flim flam has made the guy billions. So did the old door to door vacume salesmen make a little money.
I mean, running a nation on a stream of consciousness is different from running it with focus. I just thought most of us probably noticed the obvious. Guess not.
Social security and Medicare are NOT the same as Medicaid; they are earned and paid into by recipients. Medicaid is welfare.
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