GOP came for abortion rights. Medicare and Social Security could be next.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

The GOP are going after social security, Medicare and Medicaid

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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/medicare-social-security-benefits-are-ballot-fall-n1298979?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

President Joe Biden last week slammed two Republican senators for proposing to end Social Security and Medicare as we know it. First, Biden renewed his attacks on Florida’s Rick Scott, who has called for all government programs, including Social Security and Medicare, to be reapproved every five years. The president then ripped Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson for recently proposing a vote each year to determine if Social Security and Medicare would be funded.

As Scott, chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, writes in his “11-Point Plan to Rescue America,” “If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again.” That means if our notoriously gridlocked Congress couldn’t agree on the terms of what Social Security and Medicare should look like every five years, those programs would end.

In his remarks about Johnson, the president said, “As my mother would say, ‘God love him.’”

Before you roll your eyes and say that Republicans wont’ really end those two beloved federal programs, remember how many of us dismissed the GOP when for years they vowed to overturn Roe v. Wade. Many viewed their words as simply red meat for their base. It wasn’t.

[Walleye]

1. The GOP has always been against Social Security and Medicare. I'm sure they will try to destroy it

If only people knew a little bit of their own history

[Caliman73]

9. Exactly..

This is not new. Conservatives began to attack Social Security before FDR's ink on the program was dry. Hell, they even cut Black Americans out of the benefit for many years when Social Security was new on the books. Ronald Regan cut his political teeth trying to demonize Social Security and other New Deal programs. Richard Nixon hacked away at Medicare, leaving massive gaps in coverage to make it less palatable to Americans. Reagan as president taxed Social Security as income for the first time since the inception of the program, to offset his slashing of taxes on the wealthiest Americans. Remember when Bush Jr. and the GOP were talking about privatizing Social Security with all the "political capital" he got from the election in 2004?

As you said, Conservatives are only able to get away with this because people do know, or forget that the privatization and dismantling of all New Deal and Great Society advances has been the plan of Conservatives since the late 30's and late 60's when they were implemented.

[Walleye]

10. Too true, thank you. They are not going to quit until they get their dirty deeds done

I always remember what Senator Durbin said one time. Do they think we have amnesia?

[Caliman73]

11. History was one of my favorite subjects...

Most of my classmates however, thought it was boring and horrible. I had really good World and US History teachers, we would talk about things not on the curricula often. When I got to university, sky was the limit. If I wasn't even more drawn to Psychology, I would likely have been a History or Poli-Sci major.

They count on apathy. They count on people who do not know who the Mayor of their town is, their State and Federal Reps and Senators. The folks who can predict who is going to win the next America's Got Talent or the NFC and AFC, but who don't know about the "Taxpayer Initiative" on the ballot, funded by billionaires that will shift the tax burden from the wealthy to the rest of us.

It is a combination of amnesia, ignorance, and apathy that they count on to keep getting their political and economic wins despite their much smaller numbers.

[Walleye]

12. I really wish more of our citizens had your background in studying history. Many of us remember it.

It’s strange that the things are now history really are part of my young life.

[Elessar Zappa]

2. If they ever control all of Congress and the presidency,

they’ll undoubtedly get rid of SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Snap, HUD, everything that helps low income Americans.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Fascists get rid of all the "useless eaters."

People taking up space and resources that belong to the politicians and oligarchs.

Hitler invaded Poland and got rid of everyone except those who could do factory work or hard labor.

[SheltieLover]

4. Then womens' voting fights.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Rick Scott's Senate GOP plan that could end Social Security and Medicare

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[Delmette2.0]

6. Remember when we were suppose to have a 3 programs to provide

for your retirement. 1 Social security 2 Employer retirement 3 personal savings.

Well too many businesses took our Employer/Employee retirement fund and funded their own. Wages were lost with the businesses. So our homes were lost also.

Now the R's want to take Social Security and Medicare also.

Every paycheck I earned since I was 18 had a portion put aside for the Social Security TRUST. I raised two fine young men on a single salary. I bought a tiny house, but it was mine. I sold it and bought one that would be more handicap accessible for my oldest son with Muscular Dystrophy. I created a home to care for him until he could no longer work. He did qualify for a disability but no Medicare for 2 f***ing years. He died 5 years ago. I kept the house but it was to much for me to take care of. So I considered selling it.

About that time my younger son and his wife were looking to buy a house, but were out priced every where. I sold them my house for what was left on the mortgage so they could afford it. I am in an apartment, and the rent has gone up every year.

If I don't have the Social Security that I invested in or the Medicare that I pay premiums on, I may as well find a bottle of wine and a bottle of pills.

Millions of people are in the same situation or worse.

Enough is enough. Stop this crap right now. Bernie Sanders has been telling us for years to expand Medicare to everyone.

I've said my piece or is it peace. Thanks for reading.

Vote for Democrats all the way down the ballot.

[LastDemocratInSC]

7. It's American Exceptionalism.

The Shining City on the hill, the Beacon of liberty and prosperity is just an illusion.

[Delmette2.0]

8. Oh I forget about those empty promises.

I guess they did too.

Thanks