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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Thu Nov 3, 2022, 11:56 AM Nov 2022

Unearthed video shows Sen. Mike Lee saying getting rid of Social Security is why he ran in 2010

“It will be my objective to phase out Social Security, to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it,” Lee said in the video. "People who advise me politically always tell me that's dangerous, and I tell them, in that case, it's not worth my running. That's why I'm doing this, to get rid of that. Medicare and Medicaid are of the same sort and need to be pulled up.”


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Unearthed video shows Sen. Mike Lee saying getting rid of Social Security is why he ran in 2010 (Original Post) kpete Nov 2022 OP
What a POS thief! ffr Nov 2022 #1
Does Hannity have some sort of memory issue? dugog55 Nov 2022 #2
No memory issue. He knows very well that (R)'s have been spouting this message out ... aggiesal Nov 2022 #7
No. He's just a liar. dchill Nov 2022 #8
Four decades? Genki Hikari Nov 2022 #10
I'm sure even in Utah people love social security Polybius Nov 2022 #3
They all love SS. They just don't want "those others" to get it. nt Samrob Nov 2022 #9
There should be 1 commercial with every Republican on tape Bluethroughu Nov 2022 #4
That would make a great TV AD ! KS Toronado Nov 2022 #5
This! pandr32 Nov 2022 #6
I don't know how to do it, but that's a great idea! Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2022 #11

dugog55

(296 posts)
2. Does Hannity have some sort of memory issue?
Thu Nov 3, 2022, 12:03 PM
Nov 2022

Getting rid of Social Security and Medicare has been a plank in the GOP platform for four decades. W. Bush tried to privatize it in the 2000's. It is literally all they think and talk about.

aggiesal

(8,917 posts)
7. No memory issue. He knows very well that (R)'s have been spouting this message out ...
Thu Nov 3, 2022, 02:47 PM
Nov 2022

for some time now.
And with Rick Scott's plan, it's getting too hard to deny, and since the (R) leadership has told Scott and all others screaming this, to stop advertising this plan, they now need Faux News to spout the opposite.
Faux News knows where their marching orders come from.

Bluethroughu

(5,172 posts)
4. There should be 1 commercial with every Republican on tape
Thu Nov 3, 2022, 12:20 PM
Nov 2022

Thread together saying this.

Then maybe the seniors and those dependent on it, will wake up out of their stupid party line voting and vote on the issues that matter in their own homes!

KS Toronado

(17,259 posts)
5. That would make a great TV AD !
Thu Nov 3, 2022, 02:22 PM
Nov 2022

Hope the Lincoln Project or someone is listening. It's on Kevin McCarthy's platform to kill them,
and of course FQX has to lie about it so it doesn't cost them at the ballot box.
Could sure use this TV AD in the final days of the midterms.

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