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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 10:50 PM Feb 2017

All This Backlash Over ACA? Wait Until They Reveal End Of Social Security, Medicare, VA & Medicaid.

Looks like we are just getting started. Ryan has pretty much signaled that he plans to privatize and cut Social Security, Medicare & the VA. Plus he want to block grant Medicaid to the states and cut it. Then give DOD huge increase with tax cuts for the 1%.

I wonder how those proposals will go down?.

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All This Backlash Over ACA? Wait Until They Reveal End Of Social Security, Medicare, VA & Medicaid. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2017 OP
Ryan will most likely promise to exempt current beneficiaries. guillaumeb Feb 2017 #1
Yep AJT Feb 2017 #5
As a parent myself, I cannot understand this ability and willingness to sacrifice guillaumeb Feb 2017 #9
But Paul Ryan seems like such a nice man........... Chasstev365 Feb 2017 #2
We are being thrown off the scent. They're preparing the guillotine flamingdem Feb 2017 #3
All the working class Republicans will cheer and gloat. Kablooie Feb 2017 #4
The Republicans are running away bdamomma Feb 2017 #6
I think the you know what will hit the fan!! Lifelong Protester Feb 2017 #7
I think they'll find that SS is still the third rail of American politics. DavidDvorkin Feb 2017 #8

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
1. Ryan will most likely promise to exempt current beneficiaries.
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 10:52 PM
Feb 2017

Thus keeping the Tea Party senior vote while stealing from their children and grandchildren.

AJT

(5,240 posts)
5. Yep
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 11:05 PM
Feb 2017

and my 90 year old Trumpette mother is fine with that. She stayed home, never worked outside the home, and lives off my dead step-father's social security while complaining about "those people" getting free stuff. Her children, including me, spent our lives working and contributing to social security and Medicare and she says that it just too bad for us.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
9. As a parent myself, I cannot understand this ability and willingness to sacrifice
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 12:24 PM
Feb 2017

the next generations. A similar sociopathy is evident in the oil executives who are willing to ruin the planet fro the sake of a few more dollars in their portfolio.

flamingdem

(39,312 posts)
3. We are being thrown off the scent. They're preparing the guillotine
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 11:03 PM
Feb 2017

and it will be presented with force and be difficult to resist.

Kablooie

(18,619 posts)
4. All the working class Republicans will cheer and gloat.
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 11:04 PM
Feb 2017

They have no idea what any of this means.
Even when they find themselves starving out on the street they will blame Democrats.

bdamomma

(63,810 posts)
6. The Republicans are running away
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 11:12 PM
Feb 2017

from their constituents now wait until all this shit hits the fan.

Republicans, White Supremacists, religious right extremists, Nazi lovers, and Fascists are our homegrown terrorists, not Muslims.

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