Anonymous wrote:Full SS Retirement age is already at 70 for my generation, which is one reason I can't afford to retire. What are they going to do, make it 75 or 80, so most of us have the choice of dying at work or going hungry?

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Anonymous wrote:They don't have the votes. They never have the votes for anything except tax cuts. They only thing Republicans can pass regarding Medicare is to spend the money much less efficiently by laundering it through insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

This is correct. They don’t have the votes for a major overhaul of entitlement programs.

Anonymous wrote:They don't have the votes. They never have the votes for anything except tax cuts. They only thing Republicans can pass regarding Medicare is to spend the money much less efficiently by laundering it through insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

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Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) said Tuesday that lawmakers will ultimately face tough choices on spending in next year’s unified GOP government, suggesting cuts may be coming to social welfare programs

We’re going to have to have some hard decisions. We got to bring the Democrats in to talk about Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare. There’s hundreds of billions of dollars to be saved, and we know how to do it, we just have to have the stomach to actually take those challenges on,” McCormick told Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5019422-republican-social-security-medicaid-medicare-welfare-cuts-trump/

This will be fun to watch because at the same time congressional republicans are cutting these benefits they will be giving tax breaks the rich. You know they will also go after the VA and veterans’ disability.

We’ll see, considering Trump’s a populist and not a conservative—I doubt it. Especially given how turbulent and vast the spectrum of views are in the house.

But if it does happen, this will be the death knell of the GOP.

If these kinds of cuts were what people wanted, anyone other than Trump would have won in the primaries. And down-ballot republicans would have done better than him. Instead the opposite is true.

If you’re a vindictive Democrat this is exactly what you’d want to see happen though, because it would destroy the GOP. I say this as a first time Trump voter that will never, ever, EVER vote for another Federal Republican candidate (house, senate, or president). If they cut any of these programs.

Cross my heart.

Narrator: they are going to try and they will be successful on some parts, like means testing social security. What they won't do, and should, is lift the caps on the fee paid annually on income. Someone making $400,000 shouldn't be paying the same amount as Elon.

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Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) said Tuesday that lawmakers will ultimately face tough choices on spending in next year’s unified GOP government, suggesting cuts may be coming to social welfare programs

We’re going to have to have some hard decisions. We got to bring the Democrats in to talk about Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare. There’s hundreds of billions of dollars to be saved, and we know how to do it, we just have to have the stomach to actually take those challenges on,” McCormick told Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5019422-republican-social-security-medicaid-medicare-welfare-cuts-trump/

This will be fun to watch because at the same time congressional republicans are cutting these benefits they will be giving tax breaks the rich. You know they will also go after the VA and veterans’ disability.

Why do the “hard decisions” always involve cutting benefits? Why not just raise taxes a little bit?

Anonymous wrote:They're unsustainable.

I wish they'd cut SS and let me invest it. I'd make so much more ROI. SS makes my retirement worse.

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If they don't cut defense and cut health care/social benefits first, there will be a very unhappy populace. Look for big changes in the midterms if this is what they do.

Doesn’t matter. The GOP convinced the rubes to vote for them on the fake issue of a bad economy. As predicted, Trump will crash our economy.

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Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) said Tuesday that lawmakers will ultimately face tough choices on spending in next year’s unified GOP government, suggesting cuts may be coming to social welfare programs

We’re going to have to have some hard decisions. We got to bring the Democrats in to talk about Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare. There’s hundreds of billions of dollars to be saved, and we know how to do it, we just have to have the stomach to actually take those challenges on,” McCormick told Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5019422-republican-social-security-medicaid-medicare-welfare-cuts-trump/

This will be fun to watch because at the same time congressional republicans are cutting these benefits they will be giving tax breaks the rich. You know they will also go after the VA and veterans’ disability.

It was the plan all along. Notice that Trump is stacking his administration with billionaires. And now they will cut social security and Medicare to help themselves to tax cuts. Party of the working class folks!

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Anonymous wrote:contractors would be getting shed right and left.

The government has essentially been outsourced to the consulting firms. If we want a functioning government (and clearly the GOP doesn't) then someone has to do the work, either staff or outsourced. Outsourced is more expensive, but hey, the GOP has been "cutting the government" since the 1980's, so its all good, right?

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If they don't cut defense and cut health care/social benefits first, there will be a very unhappy populace. Look for big changes in the midterms if this is what they do.