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.
Please lay out on your home page all of your experience with conservatism since you have nothing on your home page. That way, we can better understand your feelings.
A lot of liberals come to Free Republic to try to cause trouble.
boom!
bigdoodyfartyjive also hates Sarah Palin.
Ah, now using liberal buzzphrases like “knuckle-dragging”.
What’s your DU SN?
trump let fauxi and the kung flu scamdemic destroy his 4 years of maga...
trump claims the experimental shots are “safe and effective”...
Man, that comment probed the limits of profundity.
“Yeah, we know, you’re an anti-trumper. GFY.“
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Hear, hear!
Reagan had a Repub controlled Senate for his fist 6 years. Reagan and the Repubs lost that leverage when they passed that amnesty/cheap labor dream like fantasy while the US citizen got screwed by a perpetual nightmare. In fact, the only leverage that was used was tax cuts but saddled with huge spending programs attached. Whoop-dee-doo, debt up to our eyeballs and the Federal government expanded rapidly too adding over 200,000 non-defense federal parasitic positions. Populists are just that, popular, unfortunately spend like crazy.
keep it simple stupid
bigdoodyfartyjive also hates Sarah Palin.
I’ve got a looooong posting history. If you want to go check my loyalty card, you can read it.
Social Security is a Leftist sucker play. It was never, nor could it be a retirement plan. It was jusst another feel good, cooked up liberal ruse to grab money out of the pockets of the working class. Just allow me to keep those tax dollars and run my own investment plan. S/S is just another Leftest scam that is now self-immolating.
Yet if Trump wanted to cut Medicare and raise the age of SSI, some other DeSantis supporters would claim that Trump can't win because he would lose the moderates and the female suburban vote.
Here's an idea.
DeSantis supporters who think that Trump isn't pro small government enough (Medicare and SSI for example), and DeSantis supporter who think Trump isn't centrist enough (he doesn't appeal to suburban woman) should argue amongst yourselves, and spare us your concern.
Trump strikes the right balance of common sense, pragmatism and MAGA.
Again, thanks for the laugh. A Trump supporter whining that I’m “crass and insulting”. Pot meet kettle.
Things a little slow over at thefagblow.com?
Big daddy, can you point to the place on the doll where Trump hurt you?
He was President for four years. Were you asleep from 2017 through 2020? Did you ever hear him propose a solution? It’s not like the problem popped up out of nowhere.
Like post #51?
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