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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 08:10 PM Mar 2023

Sen. John Kennedy Chomping At The Bit To Cut Social Security

By Conover Kennard — March 12, 2023


During President Joe Biden's State of the Union address in early February, he was called a liar for saying, "Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset. I'm not saying it's the majority."

Controversial Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted out that Biden was a "liar" at least nine times. Other Republicans groaned at Biden's remark. So, Biden got them to promise to leave Social Security and Medicare alone.

Biden wasn't lying. Republicans have been chomping at the bit to f*ck with benefits that we've paid into for decades. And now several Republicans have failed to keep their promise.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/03/look-chud-chomping-bit-fck-social-security

I wonder if this asshole parents were on Social Security and Medicare.......maybe someone in the media when they speak to these assholes should ask that simple question and not from the propagandists network........I could do a better job.....

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Skittles

(153,149 posts)
1. strange, should say Champing
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 09:41 PM
Mar 2023

and I cannot even bring myself to listen to that asshole with his phony Foghorn Leghorn schtick

BOSSHOG

(37,046 posts)
2. Kennedy has turned himself into a lazy, worthless, integrity free whore
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 09:46 PM
Mar 2023

He did a mediocre yet harmless job as LA state Treasurer, before speaking mushmouth to the unwashed masses to get a job in the Senate. He teased the citizenry about running for Governor of LA bUt recently announced he would not. He’s smart enough to know that the governors job would involve work and accountability. Much too easy drawing a socialist paycheck. I don’t know if his stupid act is an act. But the jerk sure is lazy.

And another giant of gop “values” Mitch McConnel is alive today because of socialized medicine.

As the old Secretary of the Army might ask, at long last do any of you conniving fuckers have any decency.

haele

(12,647 posts)
3. Easy for him to work past 70 with a sit on your ass job- but an oil rig worker?
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 09:53 PM
Mar 2023

A welder? A barge worker? Mechanic? Construction? Nurse/Caretakers?
Those people's bodies wear out in their 50's and 60's, if not earlier.
They can't do 40 hrs + in their late 60's, 70's and 80's and keep a roof over their heads, food, and the lights on.

Lazy assed "representatives" who gets all their exercise running from a lobbyist event to a speaking event.

Haele

Maraya1969

(22,478 posts)
4. Anytime some GQP thing suggest cutting Social Security. We should come back and ask.
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 09:53 PM
Mar 2023

If they are willing to also cut their salaries.

judesedit

(4,437 posts)
5. They should be paid by the hour. That'll wake them up.
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 10:01 PM
Mar 2023

I wonder if $15 an hour would be sifficient. They'd be shittin themselves.

Greedy, lazy you-know-whats

Traildogbob

(8,716 posts)
9. Cut "their" damn cushy retirement benefits for life passed on to their spouses
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 10:12 PM
Mar 2023

For a few years in office. That WE pay for, not them. Fuck them!!!

NullTuples

(6,017 posts)
6. Out of curiosity...why? How do they profit from ending SSI & Medicare?
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 10:04 PM
Mar 2023

It could just be "anti-socialism" or some other ideological stance, but is this really something their base wants?

Maraya1969

(22,478 posts)
11. They profit the way they always do. By keeping people suppressed.
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 10:16 PM
Mar 2023

It is not just money that they want desperately. They want to oppress the vast majority of Americans because they want power. They couldn’t have the kind of power that they do if we were a more equal society

PXR-5

(522 posts)
13. Some of their base does what it gone.
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 10:53 PM
Mar 2023

Here in my deep red area, many of the older folks didn't pay into it.
They did odd jobs to survive and/or farmed.

Their kids are also doing odd jobs or work in the "gig" economy and also do not pay into it.

In the meantime, they just see "coastal elites" getting free gubermint money.

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