To the extent that folks on FreeRepublic advocate for Freedom, Rand has been the man with a plan on this issue!
He has the best response to the establishment.
Which, as should have been expected, includes Trump.
This is hard for some to accept, but as great as he is on some topics Trump IS the establishment when it comes to entitlements. He has made that clear from the beginning.
Don’t you want to see his budget first?
Not attacking, just asking. :)
The thing is, if one looks at last year’s 4 trillion dollar budget, if the military and SS and Medicare don’t get touched, there ain’t a whole lot to touch.
Unless there a 100s of billions to save in Medicare, which is VERY possible.
I personally think 600 BILLION dollars should be plenty enough if used right to build a fantastic military.
But what do I know :)
I am very happy with the job Trump is doing but I am wondering about where the funds will come for a trillion dollar infrastructure project. Likely tolls.
It's hard for some to accept because the assertion is utter balderdash. The guy has been in office less that 60 days and you want to push that narrative? "He's made it clear from the beginning"?
President Trump will see to it that the 0bamacare replacement legislation does everything expected of it by his supporters.
There will doubtless be more entitlement reform to come at some point. Indeed, repealing and replacing 0bamacare is entitlement reform, of course, but to think that no more entitlement reform will occur simply because it's not the top priority at this moment is simply not accurate.
There is just no doubt that many of the policy minds in Trump's inner circle believe entitlement reform to be a very important issue to deal with, at least eventually. It is clearly an aspect of the task of "draining the swamp", so I seriously doubt that it will be completely ignored.
Not much of what Trump does is going to make the Establishment stand up and cheer, other than maybe some of the defense spending...
Trump didn’t say he was going to add new entitlements after repealing Obamacare.
I hope Paul and Cruz can get through to him and he can see Ryan for the scum that he is.