Hey GOP! No One Voted to Cut Social Security

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/alex-lawson/112148/hey-gop-no-one-voted-to-cut-social-security

Hey GOP! No One Voted to Cut Social Security
by Alex Lawson | November 14, 2024 - 5:56am

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Trump and Republicans will try to cut our earned benefits. But just as a grassroots movement of Americans around the country succeeded in saving the Affordable Care Act during Trump’s first term, we can save Social Security and Medicare.

Here’s how:

Hold Every Republican Accountable: Republicans will have only a slim majority in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. Every member of the House, and one-third of the Senate, is on the ballot in 2026. We will target every Republican in a competitive district with protests and billboards saying: Hands off our Social Security and Medicare!

Keep Democrats Unified: There’s nothing Republicans want more than bipartisan cover for benefit cuts. Democrats must stand united and refuse to give it to them. We are calling on every Democrat in Congress to stand strong against even one penny of cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

Refuse To Go Behind Closed Doors: Republicans want to create a closed-door, fast-track commission to cut benefits without political accountability. We’ve beaten back this type of commission before, and we’re prepared to do so again. Any changes to Social Security must happen through regular Congressional order, in the light of day.

We are never going to stop fighting to protect and expand Social Security. Social Security has stood strong for nearly a century. It has survived wars, depressions, and pandemics. And with your help, it will survive Donald Trump.

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[Walleye]

1. In fact, they promised not to touch it. Anybody who believed them deserves what they get.

But I didn’t believe them I campaign against them. I will still be the one getting screwed “the American people”

[BoRaGard]

17. "Ha ha. Suckers!" - G.O.P.

"This is all your own fault, suckers. You believed us.
You trusted us. So stupid. Ha ha, suckers." - G.O.P.

[Walleye]

18. That's about it, and "you knew we were liars before you took us in"

“So shut up, silly women“

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. Sure they did. It's all in P25.

They just chose not to believe it.

[doc03]

3. +1

[Aviation Pro]

9. Social Security has one minor mention in Pee2025

One and it's purposely vague.

However, two of the paper's authors are virulent anti-SS.

[Nimble_Idea]

4. "no one voted for it"

just like we KNOW for sure , no one was going yo vote for a pedophile.

[GreenWave]

5. The WS junkies smell money. They want it.

My stock is bs. Boom years, I get pennies. Last month I lost $10,000 while stocks were "booming".

So to deflect attention from their blatant perfidy, they go after the old reliable and much better SS.

For my whole life, Republicons have been screaming that SS will go bankrupt several decades from now. Not happening. Meanwhile many of their must invest in companies have gone belly up.

SS will also pay for your non-working spouse after a certain age. Wall Street will not.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. If you lost $10 k while stocks were booming,

you are doing something very wrong. Frequent trading, trying to time the market, is always a losing strategy, and somehow I suspect that's what you are doing.

Buy good stocks/bonds/mutual funds, and don't sell other than to re-balance those. Or get a good advisor. I have one I've been with for some twenty years, and while I don't get huge returns from him, I do get steady returns, and lower losses during down times. I've also been able to increase my monthly income from the accounts he manages.

[GreenWave]

24. I let TIAA CREF do their stuff.

My total price went down but more $ was put in by my employer so together it adds up to $10,000 or so for October.Thanks for the advice.

[IronLionZion]

14. Brokers, bankers, financial firms, etc. are all salivating at the thought of getting their greedy hands

on your retirement funds. They'll make out like bandits while a lot of elderly people will be doomed to poverty in their final years towards an earlier death. It's deplorable.

[Wicked Blue]

6. This presupposes that there will ever BE elections again

If they cancel the mid-term elections, they will do whatever they want.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Yeah, just like elections were cancelled during the Civil War,

and the Gulf War.

Oh, elections have never been cancelled? Hmmm.

[TBF]

20. Elections are decentralized so I'm not sure what to expect -

Trump is not only unpredictable but gutsy, and I'll bet he will try to stop midterms just to see if he can get away with it. I would think we'd still have some, at least in the blue states.

[Autumn]

7. The voter knew that was and has been the plan and they did vote for it.

They voted for cuts to Medicare. They voted to get rid of the ACA, They voted to get rid of education. They voted to take away all of women's rights.

[rickford66]

8. "We will target every Republican in a competitive district ..."

Why not try to make non-competitive district competitive ? We might be surprised.

[Emile]

10. They have a mandate. Besides, they'll blame the

Democratic party anyways.

[Emile]

11. I look for them to privatize it.

[TBF]

21. I suspect that's what they'll do - they'll dress it up and convince

their cult members that they're going to make so much money in the stock market. And we know how that will turn out ...

[liberal N proud]

15. Another republican lie

And MAGA bought it and voted for it

[cer7711]

16. Lift the Income Cap on Social Security!

This should have been done decades ago.
Everyone should pay a fixed percenatge of their income into Social Security, regardless of how much they earn.
Funding problem fixed--forever.

[underpants]

27. Yep it's simply that simple.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. They don't care

[Clouds Passing]

22. SS and Medicare are insurance benefits, managed by the federal government.

[LittleGirl]

23. my First (!) SS check arrives in 2 weeks.

I will be loud and unfailing in my support for the benefits I paid into and earned! I have been paying these fees since 1976 with my first job and I want my damn SS. Now.

[dweller]

28. You may want to switch

To direct deposit … too many chances in the mail with theft etc .


✌🏻

[LittleGirl]

30. It's a direct deposit, nt

[Hekate]

25. Not Cut -- "Gut"

[RockRaven]

26. Many tens of millions voted for that, when they voted for Repugs.

[qazplm135]

29. Make sure you throw in

Veterans disability benefits