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GOP came for abortion rights. Medicare and Social Security could be next.
The GOP is going to try to abolish social security and Medicare
Link to tweet
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.
We need to admit that GOP leaders mean what they say. They will doggedly work toward their goal of dismantling Social Security and Medicare, especially if they regain control of Congress and the White House.......
The GOP’s efforts to end Social Security and Medicare may have been delayed, but, as Scott and Johnson are reminding us, the party continues to hold onto that dream. Government helping people goes against the GOP’s philosophy. These elite want to use their positions in government to get tax cuts for their wealthy donors and to impose laws that force women to carry a fetus to term.
As President Biden is fond of saying, this is “not a joke.” As we saw with its campaign to overturn Roe v. Wade, the GOP won’t stop until it achieves its goal. We’ve been warned
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.
We need to admit that GOP leaders mean what they say. They will doggedly work toward their goal of dismantling Social Security and Medicare, especially if they regain control of Congress and the White House.......
The GOP’s efforts to end Social Security and Medicare may have been delayed, but, as Scott and Johnson are reminding us, the party continues to hold onto that dream. Government helping people goes against the GOP’s philosophy. These elite want to use their positions in government to get tax cuts for their wealthy donors and to impose laws that force women to carry a fetus to term.
As President Biden is fond of saying, this is “not a joke.” As we saw with its campaign to overturn Roe v. Wade, the GOP won’t stop until it achieves its goal. We’ve been warned
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Out there.. Fucking Fascists on the Prowl for our Medicare and Social Security
TY & President Biden!
