Posted on 01/21/2023 7:23:25 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that he understands Republicans saying that “an adult has to cut up the credit card” after overspending on the coronavirus that ended up being stolen.
Maher said that tying spending cuts to increasing the ceiling is “Republicans’ way of saying, Democrats spend too much money, of course, only when they’re not president. When a Republican is president, it’s never a problem, the debt ceiling and then spending money is never a problem.” And spending increased under the Trump administration without protest from Republicans.
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You mean a Rat President who has no problem bypassing Congress...or bypassing decency...by ruling by Executive Order?
Won’t work on foreign debt.
Social security money is used for too many things that it wasn’t supposed to be for. We can’t punish those who have paid in and who are depending on it just because irresponsible scummy politicians overspent what social security has brought in.
What about cutting ALL government pensions in half and using that money to supply the deficits in social security? How will that go over?
No, the best thing is to deport all illegals and cut all unnecessary Department budgets.
Cutting Social Security falls right into the trap the Democrats have set where they, and their partners in the Media will join hands and scream to the rooftops forever how the GOP shoved Grandma into the sweet!
Don’t you ever wonder why the Democrats when they are in control of the House NEVER touch Social Security?
It’s only when the GOP is in control that they are clamoring for something to be done about the possible shortfall of Socila Security.
And the GOP seems to be just STUPID enough to do this!
We had a sequester in 2013-14. We actually cut some spending. So hopefully we see some of that again. And yes we need to cut our military. There’s a lot of fat there.
The problem is you could cut nearly all the rest of the federal budget and not make a dent in the SS entitlement program.
Sorry.
I realize. It’s about making a statement.
Worthless virtue signaling like that doesn’t help anything.
The only options are to cut entitlements and to get rid of the income cap for paying in. That’s it.
Did not mean to imply any money was “set aside, only that I have contributed well over a million dollars with interest that would have acrued.
I’ll be lucky to receive back a fraction of what was given.
1. Underreport inflation to keep cost-of-living adjustments artificially low.
2. Import hordes of immigrants from Third World dumps who are too stupid to realize they are being brought here to pay for these entitlements for old Americans.
3. Euthanize people who cost the government too much.
It happens frequently.
In fact it is Biden’s current trick on cutting the deficit one trillion.
We stopped spending emergency COVID $ and like magic the deficit went down.
Too many agencies, directors, workers, and freebies, under the government umbrella.
Until we start letting the bottom tier of bloodsuckers starve to death in the streets, there will be no reducing or paying off the deficit or debt.
Hell, illegals are basically funding the SS Ponzi scheme for the most part at this point.. :)
Cutting spending outside of the entire issue isn’t going to help and you should know that.
‘Cut everything but my thing’ is not conservative or fiscally rational. But get hysterical and yack about how SS is some untouchable thing. Politically it may be, but oh well!
And STOP send money to other countries.🤔
Republicans should NOT be tying cuts to raising the debt ceiling. Republicans should be refusing to raise the ceiling period. That would force spending cuts as the interest has to and will be paid. There will be pain because the Democrats will suck the money from SS and Medicare before it trims spending on other unConstitutional welfare programs to inflict as much pain as possible.
Even the year Bill Clinton is credited with having a budget surplus, the debt increased by $18 Billion. And we have not seen an increase that small since then.
In order for the economy to start producing a paydown of the debt, the politicians would have to not spend any increase in federal government receipts. And since the dems have gotten into the habit of passing large spending bills that authorize spending in future fiscal years, those future years are already starting in the hole.
No, sorry; we can't grow our way out of the debt. Unless grownups are in charge of spending, and are willing and able to slow down the spending increases.
You don’t have to estimate your payment into the system. I have paid 167k and my employer has paid a little bit more. I have paid the max in 22 years and much up not max over my 30 years. I’m no where close to a million and neither are you.
You’re full of crap.......Figure the interest compounded over 52 years Einstein.
You didn’t say the future value based on sound rates of return your contribution would be over a million. You said you contributed a million. Words have meanings. I was robbed also and I’m not happy.
I am not full of crap!
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