Its smart politics.
Trump talks of preserving third rail Social Security and Medicare.
Middle class entitlements are a fact of life.
They are a fact of life because the middle class has been robbed forever to pay for them. They are mad as hell and want some pay back!
“Trump talks of preserving third rail Social Security and Medicare. Middle class entitlements are a fact of life.”
These are NOT entitlements! I’ve had sizable amounts of money robbed from every paycheck for the nearly 50 years that I’ve been working and which are supposedly going to have returned to me, assuming I don’t kneel over dead tomorrow, in which case I won’t receive a penny.
I would have much preferred to put all of this money in a private retirement account. I would be a multi-millionaire today if I had been allowed to do that. Instead, these programs I paid into have been repeatedly robbed to pay for SSI, Medicaid, benefits for illegal aliens, and tons of other people who have never worked in their lives.
Plus, I would have these private assets to pass on to my family in the event of an untimely death, unlike SS benefits.