#1 thing to be done is put Philip Bump on the ash heap of history. He certainly deserves it.
I agree with your comment - all of it
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He needs to stay away from the Third Rail
Neither Social Security nor any other federal or state government spending should be used to socialize the cost of illegal immigration to support cheap labor.
TRUMP needs to be VERY CAREFUL about how he discusses Social Security and Medicare. They truly are THE THIRD RAIL and his enemies will twist his words to his detriment.
Trump train wreck in the making!
> Donald Trump called into a CNBC show on Monday morning… <
Trump talking to a liberal talk show host is like going to a rigged poker game. If you’ve very careful and very lucky, you might come out ahead.
But you probably won’t.
If states want entitlement programs, let them fund them and bear the burden.
As we all know, Social Security is not an entitlement.
Trump said nothing about cutting benefits, just going after waste, fraud, and abuse, something that, say, Obama could have said in 2008 or Clinton in 1992.
Note to Deep State: Nice try.
I listened to the clip and Trump does ramble on and change the subject a lot but as far as I can tell is he mentions cutting the waste from mismanagement not the benefits.
I watched the interview yesterday. Trump got more than 30 minutes with no ads, and ran the table as usual. Good questions and great answers. The other networks had to use it as news for the rest of the day.
We are constantly threatened with Social Security bankruptcy if we don’t give the feral government more tax money but we never hear them voice concern about the imminent collapse of welfare programs
The government has abused the Social Security program by using it as a general welfare program instead of a contributory retirement plan for people who have actually worked.
People who have actually worked and contributed have an entitlement.
People who have not contributed but are paid Social Security benefits under the governments expansion of coverage do not have an entitlement.
Return Social Security to it’s original function as a retirement plan and it won’t always be on the threshold of collapse.
Stop the payment of Social Security benefits to others who have not contributed and it will be more viable and sustainable.
If the government wants to provide money to others it should be done through some other program - not Social Security.
The reason they do it through Socical Security is to make it easier for them to scare people into supporting tax increases.
When the government warns us that “Social Security is running out of money” many millions of people who contributed become upset and easier to manipulate.
If they say “We are running out of money to hand over to illegal aliens and slackers” they won’t get much support from those same millions of Social Security beneficiaries.
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It’s only a third rail for professional politicians.
All federally funded social programs, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, etc. need to phased out.
They’re unsustainable and it’s that simple. I said PHASED OUT and yes I get SS and Medicare.
They’re right up there with all the three letter agencies that need to be dissolved. None of which is the governments business.
The social security in this country has been given out like candy to those who never contributed.
Dems have been saying something has to be done to SS and Medicare for years...but election time comes and they say....change...no way...not us...
He said months ago he would pay people to have babies. He has no intention of making sure they are citizens. Just like Covid cash.
Philip Bump is a joke.
Social Security is being completely abused and destroyed by fake disabled people. It is being gutted from within and not being used for the purpose it was meant for. That needs to change ASAP
This reminds me of the days of the Clinton impeachment trials when Ken Starr would grant interviews to lefties. In Starr’s mind, he most likely thought if he could just explain the facts, then the ‘journalists’ would understand the case. He believed their one-sided reporting was due to ignorance and not bias.