I don't plan to forget

I love your delicacy of phrasing, malaise...I really do.

Sideways with a chain saw is also delightfully delicate

At the end of the day, he’s bad news politically. Same reason I don’t praise the Lincoln group. They will stab us in the back for sure sooner then later. I won’t badmouth them but I don’t get giddy about them.

Fuck Mitt, fuck Mitch, fuck Republicans.

Just putting it out there for transparency that I’m happily taken.

and they cannot help themselves.

We put into the programs. Ugh.

Here they are:

Joe Manchin (D-WV): “I have always said that our national budget should reflect our values and priorities, but be fiscally responsible,” Senator Manchin said. “Unfortunately our fiscal irresponsibility has left critical programs like Social Security and Medicare heading towards insolvency. Congress cannot let these programs fail. That’s why I’m proud to join my colleagues on this bipartisan bill to proactively help to secure sustainable funding for programs like these before it’s too late.”

Doug Jones (D-AL): “This important legislation creates a bipartisan path forward that gives us the tools to we need to put our budget on the path to fiscal responsibility and upgrade our decaying infrastructure, protect pensions and Social Security benefits for retirees, and ensure that Medicare remains strong for seniors for generations to come,” Senator Jones said.

Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ): No quote available.

Also, in the House of Representatives: "U.S. Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Ed Case (D-HI), William Timmons (R-SC), and Ben McAdams (D-UT) have introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives."

Source: https://www.romney.senate.gov/romney-leads-bipartisan-bicameral-legislation-protect-taxpayers-trust-funds

WTF?

Kelly & Biden is likely to win the state she doesn't have to be a Joe Manchin. We are not West Virginia.

None of these people got elected to cut Social Security. None of these people got elected to wreck the post office.

But they do it anyway.

Bingo! SS is solvent in perpetuity.

Want to cut the costs of Medicare? Get rid of the R rule that says the government can’t negotiate prices on prescription drugs. Voila! Lower prices by at least 50%.

The argument goes that if you lift the cap, then the wealthy should be paid more per month because they “never get back what they paid in.”

So what? You know who else never gets back what they paid in? People who die before reaching retirement age. People who die within a year or two of retiring.

No one “has to do” anything.

BTW - statistically, the rich are in better health than the general populace, live longer and draw more $ out of the SS system than does the average American.

should get a full refund from the government for the $ they paid into the system over their lifetime, paid to their heirs.

It is just like progressive taxation to me. The rich certainly aren’t hurting at all and can pay some more in.

Above the cap and activate a claw back for unpaid IOUs for previous tax cuts borrowed for those above the cap.

I makes so much sense that the Repubs will never support it. I would like to see the cap on earnings raised to $1 million. And ditto on the prescription drug prices. That was just Shrub's give-away to Big Pharma. There is NO reason in the world why Americans pay the highest drug prices in the world.

“Ok, the Romney clause is out, as long as you agree to cut the weekly UI benefit from $600 to $100.”

I hate Romney.

her Senators. It would be really something if every member here did the same.

Those would no longer be paid out.

Also, the savings on Medicare and future payouts.

and the mothers who birthed them.

that plus the massive tax cut would justify the Trump presidency in their minds.

thankfully we have the House.

!!!

This won't go well for the GOP if they do that.

around 2030, perhaps sooner because of CV19?

We keep kicking the can down the road, because no one has the guts to address it. Obama tried, and was bashed.

No solidarity.

He wants his greedy hands on SS like most Repukes do.