Crash the economy on purpose': GOP to gut Social Security and Medicare if it wins House

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

66 million Americans get their income from Social Security. 64 million Americans use Medicare for their primary health insurance, and 76 million Americans use Medicaid for healthcare.

Since last week Republicans have been talking about gutting these three critical programs, which they falsely call “entitlements,” despite them being funded through every employed person’s paycheck.

Last week the four Republicans vying to become the next Chair of the House Budget Committee all said they would use a vote on the debt ceiling – which is simply voting to raise the country’s credit limit on everything we have already purchased (that’s a critical point, it’s to pay our bills, not to buy more) – basically as a sword to get Democrats to support massive reductions in critical programs that literally help keep millions of Americans alive.

This week, multiple Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, have admitted the plan is to use the debt ceiling as a threat to slash Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/threatening-to-crash-the-economy-on-purpose-gop-to-gut-social-security-and-medicare-if-it-wins-house/ar-AA136Mgc

"There are billionaires who need tax cuts. Won't anyone think of the poor billionaires?" Keven McCarthy

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. The plan is to decimate the economy immediately, to blame Joe.

Think of the 100 million voters who see no reason to bother to vote next month.

It makes you wonder if our complete annihilation, which is certain if they win, isnt earned.

[marybourg]

2. They *are* entitlements. We are *entitled* to them by law.

The false part is publicans denigrating the word “entitlement”, making it mean stolen.

[rsdsharp]

3. I paid into social security for 51 years -- from the time I was 15, until I retired at 66.

I think that “entitles” me to a return on my money.

[JohnSJ]

5. We are entitled to it because we paid into it. Anything bad that happens to these racist, sexist,

bigoted scum would be well deserved

[GoodRaisin]

17. +1

Not sure why this is so hard to understand for so many.

[ymetca]

4. That Two Trillion Dollar Public Trust Fund

is the last giant pile of "free money" our Wall Street overlords desire most, like 30% right off the top for "expenses".

Their Eye is fixed upon it, yea, as much as Sauron's gaze upon the One Ring!

[Mister Ed]

6. I think Dems should call their bluff on their threat to crash the economy.

Republican legislators have tried this before. They'll blink and raise the debt ceiling because their corporate overlords don't really want them to crash the economy.

[PortTack]

7. This.. besides, do they think that President Biden would go along with their nonsense? NOT

[Qutzupalotl]

8. If they're stupid enough to say it out loud before the election,

we'd be fools not to use it against them. Make it so.

[triron]

12. Well their electorate is even more stupid.

[MiKenMi33]

9. Why is this being ignored by MSM?

Every democrat running for office needs to run on this. I told this to a trumper friend and he told me it’s a lie made up by the evil dems to scare people. MSM and democratic politicians need to show video of these clips. Show them proof! Then maybe they’ll stop voting against their own self interest.

[triron]

13. Because it would help democrats.

[Genki Hikari]

15. They don't care about the effect it has on their own self-interests

As long as it "ownz the libz."

This is because they're stupid, and we all need to remember the basic laws of human stupidity, as defined by Carlo Cipolla over five decades ago:

1. Everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals among us.

2. The probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person while deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses themselves.

4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals.

5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

--Carlo Cipolla, from his book, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

The stupid, evil r party and its stupid, evil supporters have been exhibiting step 3 for decades now. Stop expecting that they care about their own self-interests. They don't and never will, as long as they think that those they hate get hurt more, in however trivial a way.

We need to stop expecting stupid people to act rationally, because not only are they incapable of it, but also because their stupidity makes them dangerous to decent people everywhere. They are willing to destroy everything--even the universe itself--to "own the libz."

[Liberal In Texas]

10. Every candidate from now until election day needs to keep bringing this up

over and over. People need to know what the fascists are planning.

[bahboo]

11. torches and pitchforks if this happens...

[Karma13612]

14. But,

Even IF a bill was passed in a Republican House, I doubt it would pass in a razor thin Republican Majority Senate.

And IF it passed the Senate, Biden would veto it.

Wouldn’t he?

I’m frightened to death to lose my SS and MCR. And I’m only 68 with a family history of hitting my 90’s.

That’s a loooong time to live on $00 incoming. What do they expect millions of seniors to do FFS????????

[I_UndergroundPanther]

16. Let the fucking republicans crash it

And make them OWN it.