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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump / GOP voters are blazing idiots. DEMOCRATS CREATED Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid...
Democrats are not going to cut/gut programs they created. Trump is LYING to Americans about Social Security and Medicare. GOP plans to cut/gut/privatize these programs - as they have been trying to do since their inception by FDR.Link to tweet
https://www.ncpssm.org/entitledtoknow/five-weeks-until-voters-choose-whether-to-boost-or-cut-social-security-medicare/
Voters will have a clear choice between candidates who talk about entitlement reform and those who truly champion Social Security and Medicare for current and future retirees. With five weeks until election day, the National Committee is supporting more than 60 candidates for House and Senate who share the commitment to preserving and enhancing seniors financial and health security. Here are a few of the candidates we are adding to our list this week:
Senator Tammy BaldwinSenator Tammy Baldwin - Social Security and Medicare champion (D-WI) is a strong proponent of Social Security, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and earns a 100% rating from the National Committee. Ditto for Medicare, as she co-sponsored the Medicare and Medicaid Protection Act to protect the two programs from partisan attacks through the budget reconciliation process. Her opponent, Kevin Nicholson, has proposed means testing earned benefits and indexing the retirement age to average life expectancy.
Abigail Spanberger - Social Security & Medicare championIn Virginias 7th district, former CIA officer Abigail Spanberger is challenging incumbent Congressman Dave Brat. Brat is a Tea Party favorite who has been campaigning to slash seniors earned benefits since first running for Congress in 2014, telling CNN last year, (Were) going to have to do some major cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Spanberger opposes any attempts to privatize either program or to cut benefits, and pledges to protect Social Security and Medicare so we can meet our obligations to seniors, now and into the future.
Congressional candidate Mike Levin - Social Security and Medicare championDemocrat Mike Levin seeks the House seat being vacated by Republican Rep. Darrell Issa in Californias 49th district. He believes that Social Security and Medicare are some of the most successful programs in our nations history and thinks we should be doing the opposite of raising the retirement age. Levin pledges to strengthen not slash benefits. The San Diego Union-Tribune calls Levin an easy pick in his race against Republican politico Diane Harkey.
Congressional candidate Jared Golden - Social Security and Medicare championMaine state representative Jared Golden is running against Congressman Bruce Polquin in the states 2nd Congressional district. Golden has rightly called out the GOP incumbent for voting to take healthcare away from more than 100,000 Mainers, adding $2 trillion to the debt by voting for the Trump/GOP tax plan and threatening cuts to Social Security and Medicare to pay for it. Golden promises to fight privatization or rollback of either program and advocates increasing benefits so that more seniors have the opportunity for comfortable, secure retirements.
One can see from the Real Clear Politics statuses for these races that the outcomes are not a forgone conclusion. Only one of the candidates we support, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, has a clear lead five weeks before election day. Thats why the National Committee has been encouraging seniors and their families to vote as if Social Security and Medicare are on the line. Because this election year, they truly are.
Stargleamer
(1,989 posts)and end child labor
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)dalton99a
(81,512 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,129 posts)the repugs paid for their so called tax cuts w/ a massive $500 billion offset against future SS receipents' payments. I couldn't find the information and this information is exactly it.
CousinIT
(9,245 posts)malaise
(269,011 posts)Social good. Scream it out loud and proud.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 14, 2018, 01:48 PM - Edit history (1)
Medicare safety net. People would simply get old, sick, deplete whatever they had managed to save, and then die. It's how Republicans roll.
They want us to be the Libertarian United States.
CousinIT
(9,245 posts)...out to destroy it along with Medicare and Medicaid.
I always assume that when they say "drain the swamp", what they REALLY mean is "LET PEOPLE DIE". Remember one of the rallies - maybe not Trump but I think Romney when he ran against Obama - the audience, when asked whether a cancer patient should have healthcare or whether the patient should be allowed to just die - the chant was: "LET HIM DIE!" "LET HIM DIE!" - that's these people - the GOP/Republicans/Trump cultists/alt-right.