The only people I hear wanting to slash social security are Washington insiders.
Another kooky liberal article fantasizing and fearing the people.
Start with cutting social security and unemployment and there’ll be another wave in two years and we won’t like it much.
Gotta start with cuts that create jobs. Start with the slaughter of regulatory agencies like the EPA, dept of energy etc.
Couldn’t get past the first sentence.
Who cut 500 BILLION from social security, medicare? WAsn’t Republicans....it’s Obamacare. Nancy Pelosi, Obama and Reid and the rest of the fired democrats.
“Some say it’s reminiscent of President Hoover’s drive to balance the budget during the Great Depression — and would backfire this time as well.”
Oh they have summed up the cause of the great depression. Hogwash...How many mindless sheeple will believe it.
Everytime I see people equating higher government spending with a better economy I have to roll my eyes. Cutting government spending isn’t going to hurt the economy, there is no way it could.
The necessary cuts are epic, huge, titanic. And that’s just to start.
But you can’t say that stuff BEFORE the election! All you can do is hint and waffle then lower the boom when you have the controls in hand.
Hate to be deceptive about it, but that is realpolitik. You can’t get elected with a promise to shoot the goose, unless EVERYBODY agrees the goose needs to be shot. And with half the population paying no income tax and countless people relying on Uncle Sugar for their monthly check, you’ll never have enough support to win the election.
Think submarines. They can’t win a toe-to-toe fight, but they are effective.