Posted on 02/15/2025 9:18:46 AM PST by Beave Meister
Pennsylvania Rep. Rob Bresnahan is the latest swing-district Republican to issue a warning over deep spending cuts GOP leaders are targeting for key safety net programs in a bill to enact President Donald Trump's massive domestic agenda.
“I ran for Congress under a promise of always doing what is best for the people of Northeastern Pennsylvania,” said Bresnahan in a statement Friday. “If a bill is put in front of me that guts the benefits my neighbors rely on, I will not vote for it. Pennsylvania’s Eighth District chose me to advocate for them in Congress. These benefits are promises that were made to the people of NEPA and where I come from, people keep their word.”
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The bottom line is that our own tax dollars are being used to fund the machine that has been destroying not only America, but the entire world. The tit has to be cut off
Maybe Rob thinks $10 MM for Drag Sbow awareness in Puru is a worthy way to spend our tax dollars.
Right you are. Elon has a list and he doesn’t want to be on it. This guy doesn’t have the money to compete with a Musk backed opponent.
All these lifer politicians who been part of government most their lives, how in the **** is it possible they didn’t know the taxpayers were getting robbed and looted in every direction?
We’re they all part of the con-job? Did they get kick backs too? Were they all too stupid to know what was happening right under their noses year after year?
"Vulnerable House Republican warns against benefit cuts [??? emphasis added]"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
If this were a better world, the "Republican"-controlled Houses would be supporting PDJT47 to eliminate the personal income tax by proposing an amendment to the Constitution to the states to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments.
After those amendments are gone, the states would find new revenues to run their own social spending programs as the Constitution's drafters had intended.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
As a side note to the states running their own social spending programs, consider that it is easier for voters to recall corrupt state lawmakers from office than it is to get corrupt federal lawmakers out of office.
The big question is what are the benefits his constituents rely on, who are they, and why do they need them?
Politico is paid government propaganda. And I have T-shirts older than Rob Bresnahan. Get with the program or get kicked out.
No quarter.
When are Republicans going to learn how to sell/market the clean-up of government?
Example:
When we find and eliminate the waste and fraud in this program, we are going to give the recipients of the program a 10% increase in benefits. That should help cover the inflation the Democrat Party heaped on you.
Instead of:
When we find and eliminate the waste and fraud in these programs, we are going to give our buddies huge tax cuts and taxpayer $ while continuing to destroy the middle class as our off-shoring didn’t quite do the job.
Going into the future it will be MUCH tougher to get onto the dole and any type of entitlement. Look for higher contributions by food banks of canned vegetables, rice and other low cost items. Is your family going hungry? That will be the solution.
As usual with the feds, the workers in the field will get cut while the bureaucrats in DC will be unscathed unless they volunteer to leave.
Rob is going to have to eat his words. When all of the waste and fraud are backed out of the programs, the funding will necessarily be reduced. There will be no reduction in benefits to people rightfully receiving them.
The dems already have their commercials made saying Trump is cutting SS and Medicare. He is, but no benefits are reduced.
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I researched.
He’s a first term Congressman. He won the seat by 1.2%.
His money comes from a 2nd generation family electrical business, as well as real estate development.
His district is PA’s 8th. It was redistricted when PA lost seats. In 2018, a Democrat won the district, post redistricting and held that seat 2020 and 2022. Wiki says “anchored in Bucks County” which is not heavily GOP, and also no longer true given redistricting.
He’s not lying. He is not GOPe. His seat hangs by a thread.
Yes, it would - for some people. The Democrats believe they are all in that selected group.
They are wrong.
We must force such people out of office. Elections would be better than civil war.
I would bet piles of money that those responsible for directing those funds to whomever are getting a huge percentage of the fund as a kickback. That’s how they buy their homes and second homes. As Harry Truman once said, “Anyone who gets rich in politics is a crook.”
He won by 6k votes. He’s got a tough call to make.
It’s not my responsibility to buy your votes, Rob.
Wait a sec! I thought the buzzwords this week were “chaos” and “constitutional crisis.”
There are a number of benefit programs of note.
Medicare benefits pretty much have to be retained. The cost of providing them needs to get reduced.
Medicaid benefits are typically not used by Republican voters. Alien parents should not be covered. The number of recipients probably needs to get reduced. Adult ($20 specialist, $10 other provider) and $50 ER co-pays are indicated. The work requirements are pretty much indirectly met through SNAP work requirements. The cost of custodial nursing care needs to be reduced by regulatory changes.
The 98% PPACA subsidy maximum needs to go to 90% maximum.
The SNAP program needs to restricted to healthy, modestly-priced food.
What I suggest is two-step reform starting with a retail federal healthy food subsidy of say 1% in the form of a -1% federal sales tax.
The eligible foods would be limited to low sodium (<3/1000), less than 15% fat, added sugar of less than 1% (or equal), less than $2/pound (<$6/pound meat).
The SNAP benefits would be limited to subsidy eligible food a year after the federal subsidy goes into effect.
The EMTALA requirement would be limited to one EMTALA care episode per 12-month window per person per hospital, with an $40 waiver fee initially.
What I suggest for Social Security is to set the basic benefit formula level using 32% instead 90% and making up the difference through a ‘new’ Elderfare (elder+welfare) benefit so initially nobody would see a benefit cut. Most of the difference between 32% and 90% is a low-income welfare subsidy. I would then later make income-based changes to Elderfare program. Perhaps, in the distant future, to not adjust Elderfare for inflation by more than 3% a year.
Social Security disability programs need reform, probably relying on employer subsidies based on disability level. Few working age people are worthless.
“I believe that he is a prime example of why we are where we are today.”
It’s all “I hate Congress, but I love my Congressman.”
I was wondering when a squishy RINO would crack.
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