In Swamp-speak, a “cut” is when you decrease the increase a little.
>> What is manchin getting out of this???
Possible reelection
Cut the DOJ/FBI, CDC et.al., HLS, Depts of Edumascation and Energy for starters.
This is what is frustrating. Why are the republicans making concessions to this clown? This makes manchin look like he is in charge “protecting social security.” He should be the one begging republicans to limit how far they will push. And why are republicans trying to help him save his seat for the next election?
After we’ve sent approximately 52 quadrillion to Ukraine, cutting Americans’ Social Security and Medicare could be the last straw.
This makes sense from the viewpoint that NOT A DIME of income taxes was EVER paid towards the national debt principle - it was all thrown away as usury interest to cabal banksters, from 1989 thru now. Spending only increased the amount borrowed from these banksters.
OTOH, SS and medicare are separate amounts from American paychecks earmarked for a specific purpose - retirement and health care. If congress stole from these accounts over the years, the onus is on them to account from their thievery.
Smart politicians will leave Social Security alone.
Medicare which is socialized medicine and doesn’t have the tax structure or financing is a bigger problem. Much of that problem is the fat and bloat in a very expensive and inefficient health care sector.
The FICA tax is the 2nd biggest receipt for the Federal Government with the income tax being # 1.(Corporate tax is #3)
Shouldn’t budget cutters start with discretionary spending?
Maybe look at the Federal workforce and start cutting salaries and pensions, while freezing hiring for all departments & agencies.
Nope, we need to be retarded and go after some little old lady that made poor wages her whole life, doesn’t have a government pension, never really had enough to invest because she covered her bills & obligations.
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They shouldn’t cut these programs (we paid for) while spending like they had a stolen Credir Card.
But Manchin is in the Senate.
Manchin didn’t vote on McCarthy.
And Two months ago, Manchin was saying the only way to stop Inflation was to pass a crazy multi Trillion Dem Goodies Bill.
This story is more than odd.
I know the frustration, but touching Social Security and Medicare is a loser politically. It is what it is. Plenty of other areas to cut before you get around to those two.
It would be suicide to propose a cut to social security and Medicare. These problems were created by Dems and the only way they will be fixed is if the Dems do it.
I would focus on cutting Obamacare subsidies. Those subsidies have grown out of control.
I went on Social Security at the first of the year.
I would have been MUCH better off if I had been allowed to invest that money myself. Instead, the government takes my “retirement investment “ and spent it on whatever they want. There is no longer a “Social Security Trust Fund “. Just an empty Bo’s with an old IOU note.
And now Republicans are doing what Democrats have wrongly accused them of doing: wanting to cut the money many have worked hard for over a lifetime of labor.