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Sebasdad22

(68 posts)
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 11:17 AM Feb 2017

Tom Cole: The Only Way To Balance The Budget Is To Go After Entitlements

Tom Cole, human feces from Oklahoma just said this on CNN.

This statement is a lie.

If you made the rich pay taxes like the rest of us, and you made corporations pay taxes like small business, you could balance the budget without forcing granma on a cat food diet, and make her live in her car.

If you don't resist what the Republican Scum Machine has coming, you don't deserve a meal, or a bed in retirement.

I Am 100% Full Resistance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Tom Cole: The Only Way To Balance The Budget Is To Go After Entitlements (Original Post) Sebasdad22 Feb 2017 OP
Entitlements are 70% Of The Budget Sebasdad22 Feb 2017 #1
Oh crap safeinOhio Feb 2017 #2
The only way to balance the budget is to put the MIC on a diet. FiveGoodMen Feb 2017 #3
We paid for these things shenmue Feb 2017 #4
yes! big oil and big pharma entitlements must go Ohioblue22 Feb 2017 #5
Let's also reject the automatic assumption that the budget must be balanced. (n/t) Jim Lane Feb 2017 #6
These are not entitlements ladym55 Feb 2017 #7
I consider them entitlements -- I am entitled to something I paid for progree Feb 2017 #8
Thing is that the right has damaged this term ladym55 Feb 2017 #9
I think some on the left are doing a great job of damaging the term and I refuse to join them. progree Feb 2017 #10
 

Sebasdad22

(68 posts)
1. Entitlements are 70% Of The Budget
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 11:19 AM
Feb 2017

And 70% of the revenue then too right?

We are still collecting more than we are paying.

Lie, lie, lie.

Republicans are all scumbags.

Maxine Waters is right.

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
7. These are not entitlements
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 05:56 PM
Feb 2017

They are paid benefits ... we schlubs pay into these things during our working lives to benefit all.

I will never understand the working people who vote Republican.

And I am so tired of being lied to by Rethuglicans and how they are permitted to do so constantly and with impunity.

progree

(11,463 posts)
8. I consider them entitlements -- I am entitled to something I paid for
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 06:34 PM
Feb 2017

Last edited Tue Feb 28, 2017, 07:15 PM - Edit history (1)

Just like if I go to a store, buy things, pay for them, then I am entitled to leave the store with my purchases.

Actually I like the word. If some right wingers (not you) want to try to make it out to be a synonym for "handout", I could care less to put it mildly.

Yes, "earned benefits" is even better. But entitlements is just fine too.

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
9. Thing is that the right has damaged this term
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 08:46 PM
Feb 2017

They make it seem like something we are entitled to (earned benefits) is a bad thing ... something that should be taken away. That is why I push the term benefits--to remind all the people who vote against their best interests that they have EARNED their Social Security and Medicare.

progree

(11,463 posts)
10. I think some on the left are doing a great job of damaging the term and I refuse to join them.
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 08:51 PM
Feb 2017

either left or right.

[font color = blue]>>That is why I push the term benefits--to remind all the people who vote against their best interests that they have EARNED their Social Security and Medicare.<<[/font]

I hope you push the term "earned benefits" or "paid benefits" or similar. Just "benefits" sounds like a handout or the unfortunately demonized term "welfare"

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