Senate Republicans Just Can't Stop Talking About How Much They Want To End Social Security

[appalachiablue]

- Daily Kos, Aug. 9, 2022.

Republicans sure aren’t acting like there’s an election in a few months, and that they might just have a real opportunity to take back the Senate. Look at this weekend’s Inflation Reduction Act, the Democrats’ reconciliation bill that is chock-full of stuff that will be helpful to the American people.

Not only did Republicans not support helping people save money on their energy bills and their health insurance, they made sure diabetics have to continue to pay extortionate prices on insulin to stay alive.

That was right on the heels of telling veterans to pound sand in a fit of pique over the reconciliation bill. Back in June, all but 14 Republicans voted with Democrats to make sure veterans who had been exposed to toxic substances, including burn pits, got the benefits and health care a grateful nation owes them.

Because Democrats decided to do more to help more people, Republicans inexplicably decided it was smart politics to reverse course and get Jon Stewart and a bunch of really pissed off veterans on their asses. The inevitable result was they had to reverse course again, and cave to doing the right thing...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/9/2115241/-Senate-Republicans-just-can-t-stop-talking-about-how-much-they-want-to-end-Social-Security

[SheltieLover]

1. Dems must make people aware of this!

Folks I've spoken to have no idea...

[appalachiablue]

4. Ik, clueless & it's too disturbing if you bring this up ..grrr!

[SheltieLover]

6. I talk about this with everyone I encounter, store clerks, etc

Because everybody has an elder living at least in part, on SS.

[appalachiablue]

9. Same as I do, even if I'm the skunk at the picnic - ha!

[Thomas Hurt]

2. They seem to do this every several years and then it fizzles. Honestly though...

I think the christofascists would support it as incensed as they are over the Pig.

[RKP5637]

3. They would support it, they are so ignorant, even if it took everything away from them! n/t

[appalachiablue]

5. Sorry to say, Yes!

[RKP5637]

13. The GOP has so fucked up the US it's hard to say what might happen 22/24, except if

it's GOP it will be dreadful. I really would not be surprised to see the us turn into a christofascist totalitarian nation with a dystopian society and their christ image dictator their cult can worship. That, seems to be what the GOP wants. I think far too many think this new GOP is the previous GOP or even know there's a difference. So, they just blindly vote republican.

[appalachiablue]

7. Yes indeed, absolutely brainwashed, poisoned.

[LakeArenal]

8. MAGAts can have seniors move in with them. They'll love it.

[appalachiablue]

10. There you go, right on!

[RKP5637]

14. And pay all of their hospital bills too!!!! n/t

[grumpyduck]

11. Of course.

One, most of them are rich anyway and will have their pensions and stuff, so they don't need SS.

Two, it just goes right along with the idea of turning the US into a medieval feudal society, where you had the rich landowners and the poor uneducated peasants. Mitt Romney hinted at it some weeks ago when he suggested that people shouldn't own their houses -- that corporations should own them and have people rent them. Which of course wouldn't apply to the repukes.

What a bunch of [insert your favorite scatological insult here].

[appalachiablue]

12. Accurate description of the goal, heaven help this democracy. !#?!