“He said that earlier in the year. A bit later he said entitlements would be exempt.”
As another poster pointed out, when Donald finds out something that he thought was fine is not so fine after all, he doesn’t waste time in doing the corresponding about-face. Which, since it is not cynical flip-flopping but rather growth, I find admirable.
“He also said he’d save $300 billion a year from medicare drug purchases through making better “deals”, his favorite word. Medicare costs a bit under $600 billion a year, drugs are about 11% a year.”
Come on, do you really think waste, fraud, and abuse accounts for less than half of Medicare spending?
I doubt the level of fraud in medicare is 50%. And he and if it is, it’s not all in the 11% drug costs. I’m not suggesting he’s engaging in cynical flip flopping, or flip flopping for political gain. I fear he doesn’t know these things, and that his lack of knowledge is no impediment to his mouth. Whether his about faces are politically motivated or sincere correction of the record/his opinions is irrelevant. I suspect the latter, but it’s a terrible weakness for the office of President. He needs to fix it. Solutions for serious problems should be defensible on the facts, and not subject to finding out “fine is not so fine after all” in a matter of days. I know he’s going the have the finest and best advisors around, time to pick some economic advisors, sit down, listen and do his homework.