Posted on 04/05/2023 3:45:32 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
So I just saw the Trump commercial re: Desantis. He accuses Desantis of wanting to cut Medicare funding among other things. All dark and foreboding in black and white (of course). And here's my favorite part: "Desantis even voted to raise the retirement age to 70"!!
Anyone even halfway responsible who looks at the Social Security trust fund numbers knows the retirement age will have to be lifted. Americans are living longer. There's no other option. Well, there is one other option -- raising SS taxes and/or raising or eliminating the income cap. Both Democrat solutions.
Of course Trump has no proposed solution to this problem. He just promises us a "big beautiful Social Security System" with no details as to how that will happen, and takes shots at anyone having the courage to vote for real solutions. For those of us who are small government conservatives (which used to constitute the majority of Free Republic), Trump is showing his true feathers as just another big government Democrat. Which he used to be.
Solving our fiscal problems and at least slowing down our journey to the financial cliff will require straight talk and courage. When it comes to the budget, Trump has demonstrated neither. The deficit continued to skyrocket during his tenure, and he couldn't sign the stimulus checks fast enough. He even baited Biden because his checks weren't as big as Trump's were.
So if you believe in smaller government and fiscal restraint, and are a Trump supporter, you're being played. He's just trying to buy your vote with your money like the rest of them. In other words, he's the latest in a long line of Presidents who are no-courage hacks.
Of course his supporters will come out of the woodwork throwing rocks. They won't refute or debate any of these points. They'll just rant about MAGA this or Desanctimonious that. They are so firmly entrenched in the Cult of Trump they can't see past the lips firmly planted on his ass.
I’m a Trump supporter, but I didn’t like the ad. It was Democrat talking points.
Nobody questions your loyalty to the Bushies and Karl Rove types. You a founding member of the PedoProject too? Your need to post a vanity piece says it all.
LOL “loyalty card”. Clearly to the RINOs.
please correct silly vanity post... actually should read as “Trump is back!”
Wow, only 65 posts ATTOW. We’re slipping, maybe . . . ?
And why the heck did they send me a "stimulus" check? I didn't need it or ask for it. That was a disaster. Although it mitigated the pandemic with a lot of flat screen TVs and carryout delivery.
There are a lot of gold deposits on Federal land. I say we use prisoners to mine the gold which will go directly into the treasury.
exactly! Bukowski-esque brilliance
Show me on this doll where Donald Trump hurt you.
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Dude,I disagree with you vehemently...you are probably a Mitt Romney fan ...or how does John McCain sound?
You forget the REAL turd in that punchbowl— two turds in fact — Paul freaking Ryan and Mitch China Cocaine butt boy McConnell (drummed out of the Army for “catching” in the barracks- fact. An old queer with no children with his Chinee wife.Fact.).
Ryan did everything he could to screw with Trump and to aid the deep state in RUSSIA RUSSIA hoax and Rosenstein fakeA@@ acting AG... everything. And where is this a@@hole now? Why he’s on the BOD of CNN clinton news network. That’s who this eddie munster is. And remember he ran with Romney the Norte American Temple Moroni boy greaser. And thought they could win any vote in the South. F’n brilliant couple of dopes.
He also hates Sarah Palin, so you were close.
So you think the retirement age should stay where it is so that Social Security goes bankrupt in a few years? Or do you think the cap should be raised or Social Security taxes raised? Where exactly do you disagree with me?
Lots of Trump supporters are outing themselves as big spending, high taxing Democrats.
Yes, perhaps a little bit...
Anybody who doesn’t LOVE America, and wants her to be great Again... regardless of their obvious defects of character and useless eater of the trough and fakir for the Federal Reserve PRIVATE bank chartered for another 100 years by Obamaumao the First. Break them, free America from the shackles of these mental midgets (Janet Yellin, Jerome Powell and each member of the regional bank boards who are a who’s who of idiotic nobodies- exception being Herman Cain).
Trump shouldn’t have to run against DeSantis. DeSantis running or pretending to run is a betrayal. It will also make Trump spend unnecessary money. All should make way for Trump. He deserves four more years. Unless and until DeSantis bows out, we can expect more of this. Trump is trying to secure the nomination. DeSantis has indeed said that SS needs to be fixed. Trump says, don’t touch it.
I don’t care what Trump is. In my opinion, he’s not that great and has never apologized for his part in the shutdown and the vax charade.
But that doesn’t matter. We need to support him now - not necessarily vote for him in the primaries - but support him now. It’s the principle of the thing.
As far as Social Security goes...if it hadn’t been pilfered and the scum in D.C. allowing everyone and their mother qualify for the funds it would be solvent....The thieving bitches and bastards that allowed this to happen have their own built in retirement package. To work until 70? your brain dead,unrealistic for most unless your self employed ...So in your mind 64 years (grade school-70) is a good gig because the idiots developed a welfare class with allotments that were not in the original layout for Social Security?
GDP growth and good jobs back to US would mean more paid into the SS system. But Democrat plan to bring in uneducated unskilled illegals that are a net drain will not work.
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