Posted on 06/25/2017 11:33:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
There are never cuts to government - only reductions in increases. For once - just once - I’d love for there to be real cuts to these programs.
Medicaid is welfare. Medicare is earned. They’re cutting the right one, if the so-called cuts are actually cuts!
GTFO of my country, Stupidopolis. Lying SOB.
They need to send Snuffolouphagus to Sesame Street to work with the Count on simple math. I doubt it would work for the little troll.
With 50 Billion in direct payments to insurers.. I don’t care. Just another bank n insurer bailout. Obama was supposed to save everyone money too.
Obamacare cut $716 billion from Medicare.
Well we know that he lied, didn’t we?
Medicare is certainly earned. I am a senior citizen on Social security and medicare. My social security hasn’t gone up, since 2008 or longer, but my premium for medicare sure has. Those on medicaid pay zero.
Wish it were a trillion.
ML/NJ
Only in the media is the Clinton chief of staff considered an objective interviewer.
The GOP lost the “increases are not cuts” argument about 20 years ago. It takes incompetence and/or collusion to lose a fight like that, but it happened. Maybe this is a second chance at it. Maybe Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell will get everyone on the same page, and state what is obvious to even really stupid people. They can confidently beat up Democrats with this, even call them idiots, and there’s no defense to it. My hopes are pretty low.
Exactly. He’s nothing but a sock-puppet for the Clintons. So what if they are cuts? The GOP needs to start openly embracing austerity instead of running away from it. Like:
McConnell: Yes, George is right. It’s $800 billion in cuts. We were shooting for an even $1 trillion but $800 billion was the best we could do. There’s another way of looking at this which is truthful and positive in outlook. Yes, it might be $800 billion in Medicaid cuts, but it’s also $800 billion back in the taxpayers’ pockets. Our first concern must always be the people footing the bill.
froto speaks no one listens
Slowing the rate of growth is lousy communication, in my opinion.
Say “We are now spending $1000. We are RAISING it to $1500. That is NOT a cut. That is MORE!”
Then you let THEM whine and talk about rates of growth. It comes down to “but we wanted more than that”.
steph can’t add that high
“800 billion? It’s not enough even if it were true.”
Using Dem math its still way too high, especially considering that we are losing 94 million Americans a day per Tim Kaine.
Come 7:00 a.m., my local morning ABC news channel gets switched to Fox
The thing that’s making me crazy in all of this is that the bill hasn’t even been voted on yet, or even made available for review by the public (at least that I’m aware of). This is literally the political equivalent of debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
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