Trump Wants to Cut Medicare By 10%

[deminks]

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/03/trump-wants-to-cut-medicare-by-10/

In real-world terms, the president’s budget doesn’t matter. It will be completely ignored by Congress and won’t even provide a baseline for discussions. Still, it does provide a look the president’s priorities:

The budget also calls on increased military spending [and] for the first time calls for cutting $845 billion from Medicare, the popular health care program for the elderly that in the past he had largely said he would protect.

That isn’t peanuts: it’s about 10 percent of total Medicare spending. (As usual with budgets, this is a ten-year number, not a cut for a single year.) In fact, this is so far from being peanuts that it’s nearly insane. Did Mick Mulvaney put this in without Trump knowing about it? Or is Trump testing the theory that he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and his fans wouldn’t care?

Anyway, this provides a great opportunity for creative attack ads from Democrats. We’ve already used images of pushing granny off a cliff, so we’ll have to come up with something different. Concrete shoes for granny?

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Which of his pimps told him to do this? Russian? Chinese? Saudi? 1%ers? Stephen Miller?

[CrispyQ]

1. Luckovich - always spot on!

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[malaise]

10. Yep

Perfect

[Kittycow]

12. My husband's idiot best friend is convinced that

"the Democrats are going to take away the Second Amendment." He really believes this!

There's no talking to him; last time I tried, I lost my temper and yelled at him over the speaker phone.

Now I just lock myself in the bedroom if I hear his voice.

[oasis]

18. Bingo!

[uponit7771]

2. This should be dems talking point for months

[procon]

3. And the hits just keep on coming.

As Trump's campaign slogan, the Dems could have a field day tying him to this one.

[The Truth Is Here]

4. How about we cut all access to anything to Trump.

And start docking 75% of his assets to pay for whatever budget he came up with, and do the opposite of his budget. Deep cuts to the Department of Defense and Homeland Security, 95% of the total DoD and HS budget can be cut down to the bare necessities and still be fine.

The rest of the money can be disbursed on other higher priorities. The least of which is in Trump's pocket. In fact, anything in Trump's pocket needs to be seized and repaid back to the U.S. Treasury.

[MiniMe]

5. Of course, now that I'm within 3 years of collecting Medicare

[Ohiogal]

11. Me, too!

Sick f****r.

How would any senior citizen with more than two brain cells support this?

[redstatebluegirl]

7. The entire Republican Party have been after SS and Medicare forever!

Ryan was a huge hater of SS and Medicare and his family was saved by SS after his father died. How quickly they forget.

[elfin]

15. Not quite right He's a iiar like all Repugs

He comes from a comfortable family - I think his dad and grandad had a very successful business getting contracts from the government.

I don't think SS "saved" them - it provided the gravy for his private college education without having to use family money or get loans.

He decides to become a "wonk", influenced by a college econ. prof and spends his own life at a career getting paid by taxpayer money and then he hits the money jackpot by marrying a woman who comes from wealth.

He learns that fudging his background about money earns him wild applause among the monied class because none of his policies will ever hit people like him and nor would they have when he was younger.

From the LA Times --
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/25/nation/la-na-ryan-assets-20120826

Snip --"I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, when I was flipping burgers at McDonald's, when I was standing in front of that big Hobart machine washing dishes, or waiting tables, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life," Ryan recently told a crowd at a high school in suburban Denver. "I thought to myself, I'm the American dream on the path or journey so that I can find happiness however I define it myself."

It drew big applause.

And yet Ryan, 42, was born into one of the most prominent families in Janesville, Wis., the son of a successful attorney and the grandson of the top federal prosecutor for the western region of the state. Ryan grew up in a big Colonial house on a wooded lot, and his extended clan includes investment managers, corporate executives and owners of major construction companies."

[no_hypocrisy]

8. "Increased military spending" is equatable with more money to steal for the Wall?

[world wide wally]

9. Wants to pay for his tax cut

[duforsure]

13. Again?

trump promised he wouldn't cut Social Security , Medicare, or Medicaid when campaigning before he was elected, then they did just exactly that with their tax scam bill trump and the gop passed. It took out just under 2 trillion from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and now want even more, which will hurt most of his supporters the most. They I guess didn't learn after seeing their taxes screwed up enough for them after many lost thousands , while the wealthy made out like bandits, and want more now for themselves. They ran the deficit sky high , again , to use to cut social programs even more. Remember trump also promised better health care only to rob millions more from it, and driving premiums to go much higher , and promised drug prices would be better under him, then took millions fro big pharma and watched those skyrocket upward also, so who would vote to do this to themselves? Fools i guess never learn, especially when a con artist tells them things they know are lies.

[bluestarone]

14. THIS is soo true!

RUMP will probably have the church's blessing too!

[Tanuki]

16. Kicking for exposure

[trueblue2007]

17. GOPigs hate seniors

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Fuck him

Medicare's a dedicated tax. Leave it the fuck alone.

[IronLionZion]

20. I don't see him winning Florida after this, or several other swing states

Dude doesn't like being president and doesn't want to be re-elected.

[left-of-center2012]

21. Photo with linked article

Trump looks like he slept in that jacket

[Honeycombe8]

22. OMG. Do you have any idea of what this would do to millions of seniors?

I just went on Medicare. Everything is carefully budgeted. I saved my money for retirement (not easy to do as an underpaid working woman), then budgeted my senior years carefully. I've worked everything out to the dollar, including being able to pay for Medicare and supplemental Medicare insurance.

If there's a big decrease in Medicare, I don't know what would happen to me and millions of others. I don't have the kind of money it takes for big medical bills. And when you're a senior, there's not a feasible way to get it.

Is this a plan to get seniors to do reverse mortgages, so the big political donor companies will get all that property? And what about the seniors who don't own homes? What will they do? Die from lack of medical care?

This is very scary. I wonder if my father and his wife, intense Trumpers, have heard about this. His wife is very sickly and uses Medicare a LOT. Although they have much more money than I do. Still, he wouldn't be happy learning that he would have to pay a lot out of pocket from his retirement savings.

[area51]

23. "What will they do? Die from lack of medical care?"

IMO, yes, that's what republicans want. We desperately need comprehensive Medicare for All.