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Republicans Plan to Use Debt Limit Leverage to Reduce Social Security, Medicare: Report
Yahoo ^ | Oct 12 2022 | Michael Rainey

Posted on 10/18/2022 1:56:02 PM PDT by NeverCheney

Republicans in the House are planning to use a potential showdown next year over raising the federal debt limit to make changes in Social Security and Medicare, Bloomberg’s Jack Fitzpatrick reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
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To: FlipWilson

Are you saying that GOP leaders haven’t regularly called for cutting Social Security? Wake up.
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Mitch McConnell Calls for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid Cuts After Passing Tax Cuts, Massive Defense Spending

BY NICOLE GOODKIND ON 10/16/18 AT 2:47 PM EDT

After instituting a $1.5 trillion tax cut and signing off on a $675 billion budget for the Department of Defense, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the only way to lower the record-high federal deficit would be to cut entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

The debt, he said, was very “disturbing” and driven by “the three big entitlement programs that are very popular, Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.… There’s been a bipartisan reluctance to tackle entitlement changes because of the popularity of those programs. Hopefully, at some point

President Donald Trump promised to leave Medicare untouched on the campaign trail, but Republican leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Florida Senator Marco Rubio have long indicated their desire to cut entitlement programs to pay for their tax cuts.

https://www.newsweek.com/deficit-budget-tax-plan-social-security-medicaid-medicare-entitlement-1172941


81 posted on 10/18/2022 2:45:26 PM PDT by NeverCheney
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To: FlipWilson; NeverCheney

The troll must think we all have dementia like Joe and have no idea what’s really going on. ;-)


82 posted on 10/18/2022 2:47:08 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: JesusIsLord

That granny looks deader than if she was shipped to a nursing home during a pandemic to catch a deadly disease to which she is most vulnerable.


83 posted on 10/18/2022 2:47:53 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: ClearCase_guy

Is this before or after Republicans push grandma in her wheelchair off a cliff into the path of an oncoming train?


84 posted on 10/18/2022 2:50:59 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: NeverCheney

Oh an article by Newsweek. Are there any in News Weak about the democrat governors who shipped the elderly into nursing homes during a pandemic where they DIED in huge numbers.

Wonder how much they cared about social security.

See my point there troll. The democrats have a ton to answer for when it comes to the elderly. The dems complaining about social security as an issue is like Jack the Ripper complaining about the laundry service failing to get the blood stains out of his clothes.

Troll on!!


85 posted on 10/18/2022 2:51:16 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: ClearCase_guy

Biden has been saying this the last few months. The last several decades, actually.

Rick Scott gave them fuel some months ago by suggesting SS and Medicare should expire if not reauthorized and funded by Congress. That would make anyone mad.


86 posted on 10/18/2022 2:52:41 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: NeverCheney; FlipWilson
Newsweak?! LOLOLOL

A list of lefty sites that had the vapors over privitization. You are a troll carrying water for Democrats.

Primer on President Bush’s “Plan” for Social Security Privatization

The real reason Bush wants to privatize Social Security

Privatization is really a plan to dismantle Social Security

87 posted on 10/18/2022 2:55:02 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Exactly my first thought....EVERY ELECTION!


88 posted on 10/18/2022 2:56:49 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

This was contrived by the DNC and given to their pals, the Yahoos. It’s a stunt they do over and over, Seen it ever since Goldwater.


89 posted on 10/18/2022 2:56:53 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: NeverCheney
“What would we consider to be a fiscally responsible budget?”

Never having produced one how would they know?

90 posted on 10/18/2022 2:57:18 PM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: DJ MacWoW

Please be kind to the troll. He is probably tired from spending his day like all democrats do. You know, figuring out a way to kill the elderly. If only there was a pandemic or something that would come along so they could use it to kill the elderly. If only.


91 posted on 10/18/2022 2:57:35 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: NeverCheney

Here we go with the typical scare-the-seniors BS.


92 posted on 10/18/2022 3:00:01 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Slava Ukraini!)
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To: dforest
The GOP is stupid, but not this stupid.

You willing to bet the bank on people like McConnell, McCarthy, Scott, and the rest?

93 posted on 10/18/2022 3:00:43 PM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: Lower Deck

The GOPe is looking for ways to throw the election and this may be it.


94 posted on 10/18/2022 3:01:31 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: NeverCheney

WTF! Cut your and Government Pensions, Healthcare and all other benefits first!


95 posted on 10/18/2022 3:01:31 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: Chgogal

“Y’all posting in a troll thread.”


96 posted on 10/18/2022 3:02:13 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: ConservativeMind

Yup, and cut all the Federal Government’s benefits before they cut citizens’ benefits.


97 posted on 10/18/2022 3:02:51 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: NeverCheney
The GOP needs to counter this BS story, immediately.
98 posted on 10/18/2022 3:05:50 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: FlipWilson
If only there was a pandemic or something that would come along so they could use it to kill the elderly. If only.

I hear they're working on a new one as the last didn't kill enough of them.

99 posted on 10/18/2022 3:06:38 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Given the current prices of gas, this is some expensive gaslighting project.

Even if McCarthy believes in this no way Jao would sign it.

It’s not only DOA, it’s DRT.


100 posted on 10/18/2022 3:06:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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