McConnell sets sights on Medicare & Social Security,debt is 'very disturbing' What corp tax cuts?

[BeckyDem]

The same lawmakers who exploded the federal deficit by gifting millionaires and billionaires a favorable corporate tax bill are now telling the public that the way to fix the deficit is to shred the social safety net.

On Tuesday, after the Treasury Department released figures showing the federal deficit for Fiscal Year 2018 rose 17 percent to reach $779 billion, Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was interviewed by Bloomberg. He was asked about the growing debt and deficit.

McConnell said it was “very disturbing,” and driven by Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid spending. The solution to cutting the deficit, he concluded, is making “entitlement changes.”

Asked about the federal debt reaching $21 trillion and the deficit projected to top $1 trillion next year, McConnell did not mention tax cuts at all.

https://thinkprogress.org/mcconnell-tax-cuts-budget-deficit-debt-very-disturbing-f7d976976996/

[DeminPennswoods]

1. Who didn't see that coming?

nt

[BeckyDem]

3. It was in their blueprints for America from the get go.

Money for them and you can die.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. blueprint

Posted this in another thread about mcCONnell.

Thom Hartmann: How the GOP Used a Two Santa Clauses Tactic to Con America for Nearly 40 Years
This scam has been killing wages and enriching billionaires for decades.
https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/two-santa-clauses-or-how-gop-conned-america-nearly-40-years

The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.
-Jude Wanniski, March 6, 1976

[...]

Here’s how it works, laid it out in simple summary:

First, when Republicans control the federal government, and particularly the White House, spend money like a drunken sailor and run up the US debt as far and as fast as possible. This produces three results – it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy, it raises the debt dramatically, and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Claus.”

Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own social safety net programs, thus shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus.

[...]

For working people it would only be a small token – a few hundred dollars a year on average – but would be heavily marketed. And for the rich, which wasn’t to be discussed in public, it would amount to hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts.

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[BeckyDem]

11. They're so horrible. I can't wait for Nov 6!!

[Voltaire2]

2. These fuckers and the fucking idiots who vote for them.

That is all.

[BeckyDem]

4. Yep.

[Raven123]

5. This is a softball. Dems better hit it hard

[BeckyDem]

8. We have all the facts on our side. Greed and their donors are the only reasons for those

tax cuts. There is no economic policy to justify it. It is not an exaggeration for the Dems to say the GOP are thieves.

[Raven123]

12. As long as they make sure the facts are front and center

Don't get distracted by other bright shiny objects. In any and every interview point this out. In any debate bring it up.

[BeckyDem]

14. Yes. Focused, prepared. Say it over and over again. Point to website too.

It should be set up that way, let them try and attack it but we should have one set up.

They are robbing Americans, we can prove it.

[Jim__]

6. It's 3 weeks to the election. The Democrats should jump all over this.

Come on Blue Wave!

[Achilleaze]

7. republicans stuff their own pockets, then piss on the poor

[BeckyDem]

9. +1

[spanone]

17. pissing on their own base...lots of social security/medicare recipients in those rallies

[Achilleaze]

18. But because they are republicans, they assume they will get "special" treatment somehow

and won't get screwed for their own social security, medicaid, and medicare. They do not yet realize that in voting for the GOP and its ignoble Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, they were voting for their very own personal/family republican ream-job. They have swallowed the lies.

[ananda]

13. The Reeps are not going to stop unless we make them stop!!!

...

[msongs]

15. attention chuck schumer. .. are you going to use this against repubs? nt

[spanone]

16. this has been the plan all along.

[Cha]

19. Fucking asshole gaslighter. This Needs to be

Front and Center.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. This year's campaign ad just wrote itself

This needs to be replayed over and over.