Posted on 04/05/2023 3:45:32 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
So I just saw the Trump commercial re: Desantis. He accuses Desantis of wanting to cut Medicare funding among other things. All dark and foreboding in black and white (of course). And here's my favorite part: "Desantis even voted to raise the retirement age to 70"!!
Anyone even halfway responsible who looks at the Social Security trust fund numbers knows the retirement age will have to be lifted. Americans are living longer. There's no other option. Well, there is one other option -- raising SS taxes and/or raising or eliminating the income cap. Both Democrat solutions.
Of course Trump has no proposed solution to this problem. He just promises us a "big beautiful Social Security System" with no details as to how that will happen, and takes shots at anyone having the courage to vote for real solutions. For those of us who are small government conservatives (which used to constitute the majority of Free Republic), Trump is showing his true feathers as just another big government Democrat. Which he used to be.
Solving our fiscal problems and at least slowing down our journey to the financial cliff will require straight talk and courage. When it comes to the budget, Trump has demonstrated neither. The deficit continued to skyrocket during his tenure, and he couldn't sign the stimulus checks fast enough. He even baited Biden because his checks weren't as big as Trump's were.
So if you believe in smaller government and fiscal restraint, and are a Trump supporter, you're being played. He's just trying to buy your vote with your money like the rest of them. In other words, he's the latest in a long line of Presidents who are no-courage hacks.
Of course his supporters will come out of the woodwork throwing rocks. They won't refute or debate any of these points. They'll just rant about MAGA this or Desanctimonious that. They are so firmly entrenched in the Cult of Trump they can't see past the lips firmly planted on his ass.
Thanks for making my point. There’s nothing exceptional about Trump. I thought he was supposed to lead. I though he was supposed to “Make America Great Again”. Yet he does nothing to fix one of the biggest looming issues of the day, and in fact ATTACKS SOMEONE WHO IS TRYING TO ADDRESS IT. Yes, a hack. Just like his predecssors.
I don’t know why you think you have to post this crap.....
You anti-Trumpers need to accept the fact that Trump is going to be the nominee.
Oh he’ll be the nominee. But he’s all hat and no cattle. He doesn’t have solutions to the big problems of the day. He just has his ego and his big mouth. After that he’s an empty suit.
Truth hurts huh?
Fiscal restraint doesn’t win elections, and doesn’t happen whoever wins elections. Smaller government isn’t going to happen either.
Did you miss his SCOTUS appointments that resulted in kicking Roe v. Wade?
Wow, i didn’t know AOC had a FreeRepublic handle. Because she would say the exact same thing.
Raising the retirement age is not courageous. It is stupid and totally wrong. Age 70 is too old.
Why? Desantis fluffers love sowing seeds of division in the Republican Party. They were never MAGA in the first place. Those 10%ers are Free Trading, cheap labor loving, retirement age raising, globalist war mongers.
So then you’re in favor of raising taxes, or lifting the cap. There’s no other solution. So now you, Bernie, Lizzie and AOC are all in agreement.
You have been lied to if you have been told otherwise, or that you are entitled to get any of the payroll taxes you involuntarily paid into it back.
See Flemming vs Nestor.
Oh really? You want Republicans to raise retirement age on blue collar workers and still remain a viable political party? YOU ARE ON CRACK.
No. I am in favor of cutting numerous things instead. Ronnie will get nowhere if he campaigns on this. I doubt he would be that stupid.
Um, SS is paid out of the general fund IT CAN NEVER “RUN OUT OF MONEY”. It will run a deficit until all the baby boomers are dead. Then it will be in massive surplus.
“Fiscal conservatism” is EXTREMELY unpopular.
Any candidate or political party organizing around it has a death wish.
In fact, it is SO unpopular that many people adhere to suicidal cultural liberalism (which is not popular at all) to get a candidate or party with economic views that are broadly popular.
Ask yourself why there is not a political party that is socially conservative and economically liberal, which is what most people want and which would end 51-49 and 49-51 elections permanently.
The last candidate who ran on a platform like that won 61% of the vote and 520 electoral votes.
Must have something to do with the interests of the “donor community”.
Yep. LOL
Show your work, how is DeSantis an establishment lackey.
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DeSantos is the great “woke warrior” which pushes emotional buttons and is the easiest red meat for red state conservatives.
The ‘Civil War’ positions in the Republican Party are foreign policy, trade, manufacturing, industry, environmental regulations, energy, agriculture, etc.
DeSantis needs to clarify his position on other issues that aren’t woke, but he can’t because he’s dependent on financing from Wall Street.
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