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Nikki Haley wants to reform Social Security and Medicare. Donors are paying attention
CNN ^ | 12/5/23 | Fredreka Schouten

Posted on 12/05/2023 7:25:22 AM PST by JonPreston

As she woos her party’s wealthy donors, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is promoting a policy that sets her apart from her closest competitors for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination: A willingness to stake out positions on the politically fraught issue of overhauling the nation’s entitlement programs.

In a recent Haley endorsement, Emily Seidel – a top official in the influential political network associated with billionaire Charles Koch – praised the former UN ambassador’s “courage” for advocating changes to “an entitlement system that makes promises it can’t keep.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nikkihaley; nimrata; nimrod; reform; socialsecurity
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She'll never touch aid to Zelensky, or welfare, or $$$ to illegals, she goes after a program you paid into your entire life. A program that is overwhelmingly benefiting White Americans. Had enough of these people yet?

Meatball is Cooked, so this is their Latest Clown Launch and she want a pice of your monthly check!!


1 posted on 12/05/2023 7:25:22 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

Go back to sleep citizen and vote for the red or blue team!


2 posted on 12/05/2023 7:26:37 AM PST by Skywise
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To: JonPreston

I can FIX Social Security permanently OVERNIGHT:

Immediately ABOLISH all Defined Benefit retirement plans that are not 100% Fully Funded without a backstop from existing TAXPAYERS, for all Public Employee’s nationwide, turn over all current Funding sources of said plans to Social Security and REQUIRE all of them to Join and Enjoy their new retirement plan, Social Security, just like everyone else


3 posted on 12/05/2023 7:30:02 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: JonPreston

‘wants to’ is a long way from ‘will do’ or ‘did’...............


4 posted on 12/05/2023 7:30:10 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: JonPreston

I’m old enough to remember the days when Conservatives wanted SS completely gone.


5 posted on 12/05/2023 7:32:01 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: Skywise
Purple, red and blue together, is the color of the Uniparty. Just look at the color the Clintons wore for Hilary's concession speech.


6 posted on 12/05/2023 7:32:48 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: JonPreston

Massively cut unnecessary bureaucracy and reassign those dollars back to social security—that the government stole from the program in the first place.


7 posted on 12/05/2023 7:34:41 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Until Conservatives paid into it for years. Touch my SS and I’ll shank you!


8 posted on 12/05/2023 7:35:55 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: JonPreston

The Koch-heads and NeoCon psychos have their Nimrata.


9 posted on 12/05/2023 7:35:57 AM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: eyeamok

All federal employees who have been hired since 1983 must join SS. They pay into both SS and federal retirement systems.


10 posted on 12/05/2023 7:36:25 AM PST by kabar
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To: ProgressingAmerica
I'm old enough to remember the days when Conservatives wanted SS completely gone.

You can thank the Republican Party under the GWB administration for that.

I used to be one of those who wanted Social Security eliminated. I changed my mind when the people in Washington who were proposing major changes to Social Security were the same bucket full of @ssholes who were hell-bent on pissing away thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars on unlimited military campaigns in Third World dumps all over the globe.

I hope Charles Koch and Nikki Haley really push hard on this one. She'll be lucky to get 5% of the votes in any GOP primary.

11 posted on 12/05/2023 7:37:15 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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SS IS NOT an "entitlement system!" It's a forced retirement investment paid for by working citizens for 30 or 40 years of their working lives. And it should be given back to them!

And definetley not sent to the Ukraine!

12 posted on 12/05/2023 7:37:23 AM PST by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: eyeamok

And another big step would be to balance the budget of Social Security.

As of today there are unfunded liabilities in the trillions of dollars for future Social Security obligations.

How these unfunded liabilities will ever be funded, is never quite explained by politicians , or people on these Business Roundtable shows on cable TV business Networks.


13 posted on 12/05/2023 7:39:07 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: JonPreston

Give it up, Fredreka (aka CNN ).

If Nikki really wants to be President, she should run as a Democrat. She might carry Vermont.


14 posted on 12/05/2023 7:39:15 AM PST by BrexitBen
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To: BrexitBen

More money for Ukraine, and the “ green new deal “.

The proletariat doesn’t need their social security.


15 posted on 12/05/2023 7:42:00 AM PST by BrexitBen
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To: JonPreston

She just cut her own throat. Good!


16 posted on 12/05/2023 7:44:31 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Red Badger

At least she’s talking about it. Most politicians are terrified to even bring up the subject. This country is beyond broke. Do you ever hear Trump talk about the debt, the deficit, and the coming collapse?


17 posted on 12/05/2023 7:44:48 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: JonPreston

Reforming social security would be a 30+ year transition period. It could make it better for new people entering the workforce by allowing them to invest a small portion of the 12.4% into a portable personal account. That percentage would also be phased in, perhaps starting at 1% and growing to 12.4 over 30-50 years. Yes, totally privatize SS over the next 50 years.


18 posted on 12/05/2023 7:44:53 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: JonPreston

That is a losing platform to run on.

{visualizing Dem opposition ads of Haley pushing Grandma in her wheelchair off the cliff}


19 posted on 12/05/2023 7:45:09 AM PST by TomGuy
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Of course it can’t keep the promises that they made. They need the money for the 50 million illegals that are living on the government teat here. Then we go to pay off the student loan deadbeat brats’ loans that THEY signed for. Then we’ve got the bottom dwellers who are “victims” of what America did to the environment and the Ukraine who needs big bucks to defend THEIR BORDER. Finally we have all of the new “refugees” working on Capitol Hill who need a little starter money to get them on their way to making their first million.


20 posted on 12/05/2023 7:45:24 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It wasn't "genocide" when Hamas did it. Hypocrites!!!)
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