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onecaliberal

(32,865 posts)
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 05:33 PM Nov 2022

Will someone ask MQarthy what he will do with the people who only have Social Security & Medicare

to live on when they take it away? Nursing homes will close and hundreds of thousands will be on the street in very short order. What is their plan to care for those people, and it is on them because Democrats are not threatening to come for every penny the elderly and disabled have?

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Will someone ask MQarthy what he will do with the people who only have Social Security & Medicare (Original Post) onecaliberal Nov 2022 OP
They will happily foreclose on & snap up elders' homes SheltieLover Nov 2022 #1
Welcome to Hooverville! zuul Nov 2022 #2
I haven't seen any serious proposal that would end SS payments for those who recieving it now. Kaleva Nov 2022 #3
The GOP doesn't need to be serious about the proposal. Gore1FL Nov 2022 #7
And that's all good right? JFC The_Casual_Observer Nov 2022 #9
Is the OP correct or not? Kaleva Nov 2022 #11
Where did you read that it would only affect people in the future? The_Casual_Observer Nov 2022 #13
Answer me a question, do you currently rely or sometimes in the future rely on SS and Medicare? debm55 Nov 2022 #20
Didn't President Biden show us the plans for SS under the Replications? debm55 Nov 2022 #16
I haven't seen them. Have you? Kaleva Nov 2022 #21
Ron John would defund SS completely JT45242 Nov 2022 #4
Do you have a link? Kaleva Nov 2022 #12
Why do you think people are making this up? President Biden showed us the plans. Do you not trust debm55 Nov 2022 #18
It should be easy for you to provide a link then Kaleva Nov 2022 #22
It was big news last week,. I am annew poster some ttime to know the j debm55 Nov 2022 #23
Ron John would defund SS completely JT45242 Nov 2022 #5
Agree debm55 Nov 2022 #19
Probably put them on trains to camps in Indiana Captain Zero Nov 2022 #6
They will do nothing, and leave everyone in the cold sakabatou Nov 2022 #8
Cruelty and chaos are the point, there is no plan. sarcasmo Nov 2022 #10
Take away medicine, food and shelter from people including MAGAts who have nothing left to loose. Runningdawg Nov 2022 #14
Neither will I. ProudMNDemocrat Nov 2022 #15
I think you're working on the shaky assumption that McCarthy Golden Raisin Nov 2022 #17

Kaleva

(36,312 posts)
3. I haven't seen any serious proposal that would end SS payments for those who recieving it now.
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 05:51 PM
Nov 2022

The proposals I've seen mostly impact those who have yet to retire. Like raising the age of eligibility, reducing benefits for those who retire early and limiting benefits for those who make above a certain amount of outside income

Gore1FL

(21,132 posts)
7. The GOP doesn't need to be serious about the proposal.
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 05:59 PM
Nov 2022

They have no plans on dealing with the consequences.

They do want to end the program and use the money to pay down the debt we have from giving huge tax breaks to billionaires for 40 years.

Rick Scott wants a chance to vote it away every five years. Ron Johnson wants that chance every year.

debm55

(25,218 posts)
20. Answer me a question, do you currently rely or sometimes in the future rely on SS and Medicare?
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 07:14 PM
Nov 2022

I don't know if it's just me, but most people are not Trust Fund babies or able to secure a huge nest egg like many in Congress.

debm55

(25,218 posts)
16. Didn't President Biden show us the plans for SS under the Replications?
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 07:06 PM
Nov 2022

I would think President Biden would know what he was talking about, don't you?

debm55

(25,218 posts)
18. Why do you think people are making this up? President Biden showed us the plans. Do you not trust
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 07:08 PM
Nov 2022

Joe?

Runningdawg

(4,520 posts)
14. Take away medicine, food and shelter from people including MAGAts who have nothing left to loose.
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 06:31 PM
Nov 2022

The GOP know how to force the civil war they have all been dreaming of....
I for one, sure AF, won’t go quietly.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)
15. Neither will I.
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 06:50 PM
Nov 2022

We have adequate funds that also include SS.

When Seniors who vote Republican find themselves without a pot to piss in and no family to take them in, will they realize the mistake they made?

The Republicans couldn't care less who they kill off, even their own voters. Senior Living facilities like the one I am in, 3/4 of the residents would have to move elsewhere. Us included. We have adult children who would rather not be forced to take us in.

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