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

[Mousterian]

Don't edit my quote you pos.

Didn't pick you for a snowflake, mike!
The reason they're coming here is because the Govt back home is mired in corruption and nepotism, the same principles that the Orange Turd is pushing here.

 

[danielpalos]

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

Providing for the general welfare is in our Constitution, providing for the general warfare or common offense is not.

 

[miketx]

Don't edit my quote you pos.

Didn't pick you for a snowflake, mike!
The reason they're coming here is because the Govt back home is mired in corruption and nepotism, the same principles that the Orange Turd is pushing here.

Ok liar, they have no right to come here. Set up the military at the border and stop this invasion!

 

[danielpalos]

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!?

increase the minimum wage so the poor can pay their share.

 

[danielpalos]

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...

our alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror should be, opt in.

 

[rightwinger]

The tax cuts aren't working to cut the deficit, so Mitch needs to get busy cutting entitlements. I recommend cutting welfare programs first.

Figures you would

Tax the tax cuts out of poor peoples hides

 

[eagle1462010]

He effectively just gave the left everything they need to win in November.

Unreal

The Establishment has their own agenda.........it isn't ours...............

No doubt this was on purpose...........

 

[danielpalos]

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.

wartime tax rates or the right wing can't be, capitally serious under our form of Capitalism.

 

[OKTexas]

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.

Too much of the party has been listening to too much talk radio.

That's the only thing that can explain the thought of cutting Social Security and Medicare getting any air.
.

How about this reason:

They are terrible programs and in debt to the tune of 150 trillion. How about the fact that people are living much longer now? How about the fact that the young may not want to pay for the free shit for the old while getting almost nothing in return?

Nope apparently none of those are explanations.

Free shit?

We have all paid into Social Security and Medicare.

That's exactly how the GOP looks right now: No free shit, even if you paid into it. Too bad. Good luck. You're on your own. So are your kids.

Is that really what you want?
.

I just can't imagine how the country survived 145 years without it. The GD commies took your taxes, spent your money, gave you IOU's and are now borrowing money, in your name, to make those IOU's good. So you've been screwed twice, how's it feel?

.

 

[danielpalos]

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.

Bullshit.

Bullshit on your Bullshit. Prove to me Illegal Immigrants are not costing the tax payers exorbitant amounts of money or STFU.

Again, tell me why you want to throw Granny off of the cliff and give her Social Security and Medicaid to "Bad Hombres" who don't pay taxes?

IRS Admits It Encourages Illegals To Steal Social Security Numbers For Taxes

Only lousy capitalists lose money on border policy.

 

[danielpalos]

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.

Whether they do or do not, simply cut off everything.

No benefits, no school, no housing, no jobs, no business licenses, no nothing.

Null.

the right wing could care less about the whole and entire concept of natural rights.

 

[eagle1462010]

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.

Too much of the party has been listening to too much talk radio.

That's the only thing that can explain the thought of cutting Social Security and Medicare getting any air.
.

How about this reason:

They are terrible programs and in debt to the tune of 150 trillion. How about the fact that people are living much longer now? How about the fact that the young may not want to pay for the free shit for the old while getting almost nothing in return?

Nope apparently none of those are explanations.

Free shit?

We have all paid into Social Security and Medicare.

That's exactly how the GOP looks right now: No free shit, even if you paid into it. Too bad. Good luck. You're on your own. So are your kids.

Is that really what you want?
.

I just can't imagine how the country survived 145 years without it. The GD commies took your taxes, spent your money, gave you IOU's and are now borrowing money, in your name, to make those IOU's good. So you've been screwed twice, how's it feel?

.

When we finally implode............everything of real value will be on little pieces of paper...........the ones who did it will then own all the deeds to the real property as the whole world is a disaster..............

Then they will set up soup kitchens for the people and tents saying we are here to save you...............

 

[danielpalos]

How "Undocumented" Workers Are Becoming Entitled To Social Security | The Senior Citizens League

lousy management; we should be solving our illegal problem at the border via Capitalism.

 

[cnm]

Just weeks before the midterms and this moron is talking about safety net cuts???

Is he trying to help the left?

Hoho, he's trying to mobilise the base. You want the safety nets cut, right?

 

[cnm]

No matter what "needs" to be done you don't announce shit like this mere days before an election.

Absurd.

One must hide one's intentions, it's stupid not to.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Just weeks before the midterms and this moron is talking about safety net cuts???

Is he trying to help the left?

They like having a built in excuse. If the Dems take one of the two parts of congress there is a built in excuse for not doing shit for the next two years at least.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

The tax cuts aren't working to cut the deficit, so Mitch needs to get busy cutting entitlements. I recommend cutting welfare programs first.

Who in the world thought that thought that reducing revenue would cut into the deficit?

 

[eagle1462010]

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[KissMy]

We are going to have a lot of future problems with retirees.

how?

Pensions are gone, you think people are going to save enough? Ha

More than the government did with SS.

Which as we all know, is nothing.

It’s a pay as you go system....

Brilliant rebuttal!

Here you are moaning that idiot leftists don't save so we need SS so that government can save for us. Yet the government saved nothing. Now instead of some individuals being screwed, we are all screwed.

This is how leftists "think".

It's impossible to save for retirement when repubtards keep printing money!!!

 

[eagle1462010]

The tax cuts aren't working to cut the deficit, so Mitch needs to get busy cutting entitlements. I recommend cutting welfare programs first.

Who in the world thought that thought that reducing revenue would cut into the deficit?

Two edged sword................cut to deep......revenue goes down.......you must find equalibrium.........as cuts tend to create jobs.......always have..........

Increase taxes............lose jobs..............where is the center..........hmmmm

The historical average of revenue in the United States is 18% regardless of tax rate.