Posted on 01/20/2023 1:59:43 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Former President Donald Trump on Friday released a video telling GOP lawmakers to "cut waste, fraud and abuse everywhere" and to save Social Security as "the Democrats are looking to destroy" the program.
"Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security to help pay for Joe Biden's reckless spending spree. Which is more reckless than anyone has ever done - or had - in the history of our country," Trump said.
WATCH: Trump: We must protect Medicare and Social Security
"Biden has blown out the federal budget, wasted trillions on left-wing lunacy and the ridiculous green new deal, which is a tremendous problem and embarrassment to us, and thrown open our treasury and our borders to migrants from all over the world," Trump added.
The Biden administration's spending has included the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill spending plans from 2021, the $739 billion Inflation Reduction Act from August of last year, and the recently passed $1.7 trillion government omnibus bill.
Biden has spent over $60 billion funding the war in Ukraine and instituted a now-paused student loan forgiveness plan that will cost $300 billion and $980 billion over the next 10 years.
Trump then mentioned Biden's border crisis, which has seen a record-high number of illegal immigrants pouring into the United States along with a historic increase in drug and human trafficking.
"In fact, migrants that are coming from prisons and migrants that are coming from mental institutions are being dropped into the United States. And we do nothing about it," Trump said. "I had the safest border in the history of our country just two years ago. And now we have probably the worst border in the history of the world."
Trump continued, "We absolutely need to stop Biden's out-of-control spending. The pain should be borne by Washington bureaucrats, not by hardworking American families and American seniors. The seniors are being absolutely destroyed in the last two years."
"Cut the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars going to corrupt foreign countries. Cut the mass releases of illegal aliens that are depleting our social safety net and destroying our country. Cut the left-wing gender programs from our military. Cut the billions being spent on climate extremism. Cut waste, fraud and abuse everywhere that we can find, and there's plenty of it," Trump said. "But do not cut the benefits our seniors worked for and paid for their entire lives. Save Social Security, don't destroy it. The Democrats are looking to destroy Social Security. We're not going to let them do it."
Trump's message comes as Republicans and Democrats are prepared to negotiate on spending in order to extend the debt ceiling.
Where did those figures come from?
Agreed, it is a losing position.
Easy to do a search. Its what I ever from 2020. I’m sure it has gone up from there.
So, from memory? I was just curious.
yes, memory. ever=remember.
According to Trump the biggest (and most expensive) wall.
https://www.propublica.org/article/records-show-trumps-border-wall-is-costing-taxpayers-billions-more-than-initial-contracts
I’m not familiar with the site, but link was sent to me then from a reliable, conservative source/buddy.
Look at this list. Outrageous he wants it all protected, after just raising our national debt by 40% ($20T to $28T) in his 4 years. You can’t just keep spending endlessly, whether that is the bribe democrats use or not.
Social Security Programs in the United States
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/sspus/index.html
Social Insurance Programs
Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI)
Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
Unemployment Insurance
Unemployment Insurance
Workers’ Compensation
Workers’ Compensation
Temporary Disability Insurance
Temporary Disability Insurance
Health Insurance and Health Services
Medicare
Medicare
Medicaid
Medicaid
Programs for Specific Groups
Veterans’ Benefits
Veterans’ Benefits
Government Employee Retirement Systems
Government Employee Retirement Systems
Railroad Retirement
Railroad Retirement
Assistance Programs
Supplemental Security Income
Supplemental Security Income
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Food and Nutrition Assistance
Food and Nutrition Assistance
Housing Assistance
Housing Assistance
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance
General Assistance
That’s unfortunate.
These all fall under the banner of social security?
Yes.
Yes, it's a common strategy to hide/protect those big welfare programs when big spending politicians say "we just can't cut social security" when they know full well what all that covers. It's the biggest tool behind the Cloward-Piven plan.
That was not it’s intent. No wonder it’s nearly TU.
Social Security needs to be restructured. I don’t have any particular formula, but it needs to be addressed. Here are a few ideas.
One thought, leave SS alone for 55 year olds and above. Below 55 begin a tapered approach raising the retirement age, find new ways to invest the $$ and pass a national sales tax with part of it going to fund SS trust fund.
Get rid of the IRS, OSHA, EPA, BATF and other extra-constitutional agencies. The States already regulate various functions like these. These feral agencies are redundant.
All other departments and agencies take a 10-15% haircut. Layoff 10% nonessential feral employees across the board.
All Senators/Congressmen and staffers take a pay freeze for 3 years.
That’s a start. Y’alls thoughts?
The Vax king of lockdowns, masking, travel restrictions, mail in ballots and big dollars to big pharma speaks.
Records matter to people of principles so he just keeps confirming he is a big government guy.
How about we destroy the entire program and give everyone back what they paid in.
No, you go away newby troll. Go back to DU, creep.
I don’t know about that. We had to go to the SS office to have them correct the name on my husband’s ss card (it was good enough for the US Army for 20 years but not to get a Real Id). Out of all the people in the waiting room, we and one other guy were the only English speakers. It was like a third world country in there and I couldn’t understand why they were all at the SS office either.
Sad, but true.
President Trump, who I believe has no path to the White House in 2024, is nonetheless speaking some uncomfortable truths.
As long as Boomers remain alive and able to vote, we can't cut any of their entitlements.
It’s unsustainable; it needs to be reformed to survive.
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