Mitch McConnell: We must cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security to reduce the deficit

[Centrista]

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell blamed spending on these services for the growing budget deficit and wants to rein them in:

"It's very disturbing, and it's driven by the three big entitlement programs that are very popular: Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid. That's 70 percent of what we spend every year," he said on Bloomberg News Tuesday when asked about the national debt. "There's been a bipartisan reluctance to tackle entitlement changes because of the popularity of those programs. Hopefully at some point here we'll get serious about this. We haven't been

McConnell eyes cuts to Medicare, Social Security to address deficit

 

[Oddball]

Cut schmut....Abolish those Ponzi schemes outright.

 

[Likkmee]

Get rid of all of the " public service" idiots salaries. Make them servants, as identified.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

All they need do is cut the waste and fraud in those programs.

As far as cutting/ending those programs goes, if the politicians on both sides value their lives they'd best wait until the Baby Boomers are doddering or dead.

A lot the guys who were in the Nam felt that they were shooting at the wrong people.

 

[DJT for Life]

What the need to do is separate them into their original categories.

Social Security was meant to be a safety net for retired Citizens and
the money generated was not supposed to be used for anything but that.

Medicare was the adding of Health Care for retired Americans to prolong
their lives.

Medicaid came along later as did welfare, food stamps, whatever else.

Separate them out...give them their own agencies and their own income
and then put it to a vote of the American people and everybody will see
real quick that Medicaid will be the first to go. Let the 35-year old bum
go get a fucking job and work for a living.

 

[Siete]

cut SS - what a wonderful platform to run on for midterms.

wonderful for Democrats to use to kick Republican ass.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Get rid of those programs and cut military spending to 1/3 it's current level.

Keep taxes at current levels and set aside an investment fund that will pay for government costs in the future, and keep that in place until there is no longer a need for taxes.

I should be running the show.

 

[The Original Tree]

Cut it!

Here is what you do. Illegals cost American Tax Payers $155 Billion a year in Unfunded Medicaid, Medicare, and SSI Benefits.

Cut off all benefits to all Illegals, and Medicaid, Medicare, and SSI funds itself.

Tell Lefty you are no longer going to allow him to throw Granny Off The Cliff and give "Bad Hombres" her Wheel Chair and her benefits!

 

[Rustic]

cut SS - what a wonderful platform to run on for midterms.

wonderful for Democrats to use to kick Republican ass.

Anybody under the age of 50 will never see any Social Security

 

[Siete]

cut SS - what a wonderful platform to run on for midterms.

wonderful for Democrats to use to kick Republican ass.

Anybody under the age of 50 will never see any Social Security

thats what 43 thought when he was elected to his second term and had both houses of congress backing him up.


how did that work out.

 

[Centrista]

Cut it!

Here is what you do. Illegals cost American Tax Payers $155 Billion a year in Unfunded Medicaid, Medicare, and SSI Benefits.

Cut off all benefits to all Illegals, and Medicaid, Medicare, and SSI funds itself.

Tell Lefty you are no longer going to allow him to throw Granny Off The Cliff and give "Bad Hombres" her Wheel Chair and her benefits!

Illegalls don't receive any of those services.

 

[Hossfly]

Cut it!

Here is what you do. Illegals cost American Tax Payers $155 Billion a year in Unfunded Medicaid, Medicare, and SSI Benefits.

Cut off all benefits to all Illegals, and Medicaid, Medicare, and SSI funds itself.

Tell Lefty you are no longer going to allow him to throw Granny Off The Cliff and give "Bad Hombres" her Wheel Chair and her benefits!

Illegalls don't receive any of those services.

Correct! They only get free medical care in emergency rooms and benevolent billionaires pay for their welfare checks and food stamps. Ain't this a great country or what!?

 

[Rustic]

cut SS - what a wonderful platform to run on for midterms.

wonderful for Democrats to use to kick Republican ass.

Anybody under the age of 50 will never see any Social Security

thats what 43 thought when he was elected to his second term and had both houses of congress backing him up.


how did that work out.

All of those socialist entitlement programs should be opt in’s...
That’s the only way to solve the problem...
If people want them they sign up for them... And if they don’t sign up for them they are not part of them, no skin off anybody’s back...

 

[BluesLegend]

Washington politicians stole our SS money, spent it, can't pay us back so now they want to screw us out of the benefits we paid for, shocker.

 

[Siete]

Washington politicians stole our SS money, spent it, can't pay us back so now they want to screw us out of the benefits we paid for, shocker.

washington politicians ie. Republicans funding Iraq war.

 

[protectionist]

I never thought this would happen. I voted for Trump in the primaries, and for him again in the general election. I love his presidency and his accomplishments, but all of a sudden now the bottom is starting to fall out of the Republican party.

Mitch McConnell is saying that we now need to cut Social Security and Medicare. Whaaat ? Is this man crazy ? He's not alone. He's got Paul Ryan on board with him. Hopefully, if these nutjobs go through with this in the Congress, Trump will shut it all down with a presidential veto.

The Newsweek article I saw on this said that Democrats are ready to pounce on Republicans who put this forward, They're not the only ones. A lot of us Republicans will pounce on them too, as I'm doing right now.

1. If you want to kill the Republican party, this is the sure way of doing it. Older people vote in droves, and will simply not tolerate cuts in our already too small incomes. This would be the greatest gift Republicans could ever give to Democrats.

2. Older people have worked their butts off for 50 or 60 years, paying into this. Not right to cut it back from them.

3. If you want to cut entitlements, how about getting rid of millions of illegal foreigner leeches, who are sucking up waay too much of the federal budget ? Jail politicians passing sanctuary city laws. Abolish birthright citizenship for kids of foreigners.

4. Cut govt waste, but Social Security and Medicare are not waste.

 

[Claudette]

I left the Republican party decades go. I'm a registered Independent.

Can't vote for much in the primaries but I love being Independent.

You can bet I take a real close look at who to vote for.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Are they going to cut WORLD POLICE military spending too? Start paying off the debt and set up an investment fund?

I would support them if they also did that.

 

[eagle1462010]

There are plenty of places to cut before that has to happen and until that is done they should never go this route.

However, and I don't like it one bit, it is part of Mandatory spending that is the Elephant in the room. The Unfunded areas in these and pensions will take us down eventually................They all know it but will not touch it because it is political suicide as this thread shows.

Sorry folks........I've paid into it all my life as well.........but it is Reality...........As I said.......plenty to cut first......Until that is done this shouldn't be touched.

Tis political suicide even to address this in this country.

 

[Lakhota]

I never thought this would happen. I voted for Trump in the primaries, and for him again in the general election. I love his presidency and his accomplishments, but all of a sudden now the bottom is starting to fall out of the Republican party.

Mitch McConnell is saying that we now need to cut Social Security and Medicare. Whaaat ? Is this man crazy ? He's not alone. He's got Paul Ryan on board with him. Hopefully, if these nutjobs go through with this in the Congress, Trump will shut it all down with a presidential veto.

The Newsweek article I saw on this said that Democrats are ready to pounce on Republicans who put this forward, They're not the only ones. A lot of us Republicans will pounce on them too, as I'm doing right now.

1. If you want to kill the Republican party, this is the sure way of doing it. Older people vote in droves, and will simply not tolerate cuts in our already too small incomes. This would be the greatest gift Republicans could ever give to Democrats.

2. Older people have worked their butts off for 50 or 60 years, paying into this. Not right to cut it back from them.

3. If you want to cut entitlements, how about getting rid of millions of illegal foreigner leeches, who are sucking up waay too much of the federal budget ? Jail politicians passing sanctuary city laws. Abolish birthright citizenship for kids of foreigners.

4. Cut govt waste, but Social Security and Medicare are not waste.

Even if your epiphany is true - they gave us plenty of warning that this was their plan. Why are you surprised? Rich people don't depend on Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid.

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