Cutting Medicare/SS: The GOP calls it a "hard decision"

[MissMillie]

Republicans' plans to slash Social Security and Medicare are becoming clearer: 'We have no choice but to make hard decisions'


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-plans-to-slash-social-security-and-medicare-are-becoming-clearer-we-have-no-choice-but-to-make-hard-decisions/ar-AA16ILik?pc=U483&cvid=22eb3e5d08cf444f9c8caffc85717ad3

After being evasive about their plans for entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare in the months leading up to midterms, the House GOP has begun to confirm its intention to cut spending on both.

That's according to The Washington Post's Tony Romm, who reported that Republican lawmakers are willing to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip in order to get the Biden administration to cave on spending cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Failing to raise the debt ceiling by the summer could cause the US to default on its debt for the first time in history, the consequences of which would be dire.

"We have no choice but to make hard decisions," Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, leader of the conservative Republican Study Committee, told The Post. "Everybody has to look at everything."

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Hard on whom, Mr. Hern?

I don't imagine that they might consider making things EASIER for the seniors who have worked their entire lives for their Medicare and Social Security and think about maybe increasing taxes on those who can afford to pay....

Let's not forget that Medicare and Social Security cuts won't really make much of a difference when it comes to deficits.

Oh, and then there's always the budget for the Pentagon. I can't remember the last time the Pentagon didn't get MORE than what it requested.


From where I'm sitting it isn't "hard" for them to make this decision at all. They're probably figuring that the seniors will be dead soon enough anyway.... Much more important to keep those rich donors happy, and make sure that there's defense contracts for the war machine.