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.
desantis never announced he’s running for president...
Plus Reagan never had a Republican majority House. However, he did have a conservative majority House for the first two years. That’s when things got done.
They’re just hoping that if they continue to raise the Social Security retirement age high enough, most people won’t live long enough to collect on it. And Dems will continue to destroy people’s retirement savings as they have been.
No, you are outing yourself a big old loser. GOPeee always knows the pathway to losing voters.
Please clap Jeb will show the way.
**Trump had a majority in both houses and did nothing.**
Paul Rino was the speaker of the swamp.
Trump did get the border wall going. Had a good economy.
Hey dummy...you do know that ad is run by a Trump PAC and not the man himself right? I mean you can read and hear the disclaimer about not being endorsed by any candidate? But you keep on being a Bush/Romney type ass kisser
Fixing the economy increases SS revenue, and stop spending SS money on parasite schemes. HERE are the real cures.
wake those Viking Kitties up...
So, Big Daddy— what would the Bushie backed DeSantis do that would be any different on this subject, him being such a great JAG officer (not for the SEALS as liars said about him but actually for Naval Investigative Services. An admirable role... but a rear echelon mf’er in that regard in any case). Would he peel away ALL tax loopholes to guarantee a 40% increase in revenues without a tax increase and without using Social Security as incorporated debt inside of General Revenue, as has been done since freaking psychopath LBJ was President? Hmmmmm. Think not. DeSantis would not touch any of that, and not expand revenue. Look at what the dems think they will gain in targeting House seats in an ON year. Because they are scared to death of the wave that will next come.
Your schadenfreude is showing, sister.
No, DeSantis hasn’t. But he’s suggesting that he will. A pro-DeSantis PAC has raised millions. DeSantis needs to clearly state that he won’t run.
People like bigdaddy loser has butthurt and doesn’t pay attention.
DeSantis wants to cut Social Security and his father assassinated Jack Kennedy.
The ad is paid for by a Trump backing Super Pac, the Make America Great one, not authorized or paid for by the candidate himself.
These ads by outfits a tad removed are all pushing the envelope. Lordy, they were over the top in our Wisconsin SC race. A person feels soiled after they air.
Sad thing is that they must work....
People say President Trump is course. LOLOLOL. The general public is far worse, and that is what plays, I guess.
Admit it: even FR is coarsening - noticeably.
A clean up is needed,
DeSantis is for Auditing the Fed. The Fed is the fuel of the swamp.
No, there is another avenue, and that is to quit spending money like drunken sailors. People paid into a system that they used like a piggy bank to be raided. Cut spending, and stop putting everything upon the backs of American citizens. We are not spending that money, but they are sure spending our money, and to top it off they have been fleecing us at every opportunity.
Yea, while you give 100 billion to Zelensky you tell people to work until 70. Sounds like a he’ll of a plan. Entitlements that people have paid into for 50 years is the absolute last thing to go. The government has a lot of cutting and policy changes to make before they should even think about this nonsensem
I like that Poster. Nails the Traitor FDR.
a “loooong” and irrelevant posting history
who do you work for?
“bigdaddy45” as a handle is a little over the top, no?
it’s like something a lefty would concoct when going deep undercover on FR, lol
The white gloves disappeared after the the Marxists like Obama took out the brass knuckles and billy clubs.
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