Posted on 02/10/2023 11:15:08 AM PST by Olog-hai
President Joe Biden has been accusing Republicans of trying to cut Social Security and Medicare, but it was Biden who proposed that very thing back in 1995 when he was a senator debating the Balanced Budget Amendment.
In a speech on the Senate floor on Jan. 31, 1995, then-Sen. Biden said that Congress should be honest with the American people about how much something will cost, and how Congress intends to balance the budget. […]
I look at the polls out there. For example, I want to go on record, and I am up for reelection this year, and I will remind everybody what I did at home, which will cost me politically.When I argued that we should freeze Federal spending, I meant Social Security as well. I meant Medicare and Medicaid. I meant veterans benefits. I meant every single solitary thing in the Government. And I not only tried it once, I tried it twice, I tried it a third time, and I tried it a fourth time.
Somebody has to tell me in here how we are going to do this hard work without dealing with any of those sacred cows, some deserving more protection than others. I am not quite sure how you get from here to there. I am sure that we should tell the American people straight up that such an amendment is going to require some big changes. …
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He doesn’t remember saying that, so it never happened.
Unaccountable, lying, plagiarizing POS that he is.
Slime is more likeable.
The media is aware of that, but deliberately and intentionally, with full knowledge and awareness, chooses to suppress it.
But if it were about Trump, they would have gone back 60 years to get something on him.
Biden was born with two faces and used them all his life.
Republicans should be hammering this via mailers and speeches!
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.This is the reason why they do not. The Uniparty is real.
— Communist goal #15
Yes
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