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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/104948/10-reasons-you-shouldn-t-believe-kevin-mccarthy-when-he-promises-republicans-won-t-seek-cuts-in-socia10 Reasons You Shouldnt Believe Kevin McCarthy When He Promises Republicans Wont Seek Cuts in Social Security and Medicare
by Robert Reich | February 3, 2023 - 8:39am
from Robert Reich's Substack
Friends,
Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this week that Republicans will not call for cuts in Social Security or Medicare as they wheel and deal over the debt ceiling. He has promised to take Social Security and Medicare cuts off the table.
Here are 10 reasons why you shouldnt believe him:
1. Its incredibly difficult to cut federal spending without touching Social Security and Medicare. Social Security and Medicare together comprise over a third of the federal budget. Everything else (except defense, which is a sixth of the budget) is tiny by comparison.
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6. The Republican Study Committee released a proposal last year calling for the retirement age to be raised to 70, for means-testing Social Security benefits, and for partially privatizing Social Security.
7. Last April, Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.), chair of the Senate Republicans campaign arm, issued a multipoint manifesto calling for ending funding for Social Security, Medicare, and other so-called nondiscretionary programs every five years, unless a congressional majority explicitly voted to renew them. Scotts plan would also force Congress to issue a report every year telling the public what they plan to do when Social Security and Medicare go bankrupt, a reference to the assumed (and inaccurate) depletion of its trust funds in a few years.
8. Prominent Republicans continue to devise plans to burden Social Security. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) recently proposed financing parental leave by having working parents borrow payments from their future Social Security benefits. If a parent died before paying back their benefits, their heirs would be forced to pay it from what remained of the parents estate.
9. Republicans have hated Social Security since its inception in 1935 and Medicare since it began in 1965. They called FDR a socialist for passing Social Security. They called Lyndon Johnson a socialist for passing Medicare. Before Medicare was created, Ronald Reagan warned of the existential dangers of socialized medicine.
10. Their opposition to these programs has not been merely ideological. They have been horrified at how popular these programs are with the public and how much the public relies on them thereby justifying government activism for the benefit of average working people. Which is why former Speaker Newt Gingrich wanted Medicare to wither on the vine, why former President George W. Bush privatized parts of Medicare and sought to privatize Social Security, and why former Speaker Paul Ryan proposed annual budgets to turn Medicare into a voucher program and privatize Social Security.
Be warned.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this week that Republicans will not call for cuts in Social Security or Medicare as they wheel and deal over the debt ceiling. He has promised to take Social Security and Medicare cuts off the table.
Here are 10 reasons why you shouldnt believe him:
1. Its incredibly difficult to cut federal spending without touching Social Security and Medicare. Social Security and Medicare together comprise over a third of the federal budget. Everything else (except defense, which is a sixth of the budget) is tiny by comparison.
snip//
6. The Republican Study Committee released a proposal last year calling for the retirement age to be raised to 70, for means-testing Social Security benefits, and for partially privatizing Social Security.
7. Last April, Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.), chair of the Senate Republicans campaign arm, issued a multipoint manifesto calling for ending funding for Social Security, Medicare, and other so-called nondiscretionary programs every five years, unless a congressional majority explicitly voted to renew them. Scotts plan would also force Congress to issue a report every year telling the public what they plan to do when Social Security and Medicare go bankrupt, a reference to the assumed (and inaccurate) depletion of its trust funds in a few years.
8. Prominent Republicans continue to devise plans to burden Social Security. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) recently proposed financing parental leave by having working parents borrow payments from their future Social Security benefits. If a parent died before paying back their benefits, their heirs would be forced to pay it from what remained of the parents estate.
9. Republicans have hated Social Security since its inception in 1935 and Medicare since it began in 1965. They called FDR a socialist for passing Social Security. They called Lyndon Johnson a socialist for passing Medicare. Before Medicare was created, Ronald Reagan warned of the existential dangers of socialized medicine.
10. Their opposition to these programs has not been merely ideological. They have been horrified at how popular these programs are with the public and how much the public relies on them thereby justifying government activism for the benefit of average working people. Which is why former Speaker Newt Gingrich wanted Medicare to wither on the vine, why former President George W. Bush privatized parts of Medicare and sought to privatize Social Security, and why former Speaker Paul Ryan proposed annual budgets to turn Medicare into a voucher program and privatize Social Security.
Be warned.
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10 Reasons You Shouldn't Believe Kevin McCarthy... (Original Post)
babylonsister
Feb 2023
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Luciferous
(6,086 posts)1. Number one should be because he's a
Republican
GreenWave
(6,777 posts)2. with his lips a'moving!
Walleye
(31,081 posts)3. Yes, it seems Republicans are all pathological liars in the House of Representatives
NewHendoLib
(60,026 posts)7. This exactly.
onecaliberal
(32,929 posts)4. Republicans are criminals and liars who don't believe in democracy.
sheshe2
(83,953 posts)5. Only 10? 🤷♀️
bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)6. Republicans only have Trust Fund babies
and scads of Estate lawyers to set them up. They've got theirs. Now they want yours.
gatomedianoche
(71 posts)8. Only 10 reasons?
McCarthy is only second to George Santos when it comes to mendacity. If his lips are moving, hes lying!