Tommy Tuberville: "Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid is gonna blow up, and it's gonna go broke if we continue down the path of what the Democrats want. We have to get everybody out that's not supposed to be in it ... we run a huge business."
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A) government is not a business
B) but, reporter could also have played along: “ok senator. If it’s a business, shouldn’t the CEO who unilaterally & pointlessly increased its supply costs & tanked its stock price by 15% within ten weeks of assuming the job be removed by the board?”
I’m sorry Sen. Foghorn Leghorn, but what path was that? Continuing to fund it so that future generations, who have paid into it for years, have access to it?
Bc I’m no economist, but my guess is that if you start by wanting to destroy SS/Medicare/Medicaide, then you’re going to destroy it, not Dems
I PAY INTO MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY ON MY PAYCHECK YOU FUCKING DUNCE! See that thing that says 'FICA' on your paycheck, YOU PAY FOR IT. It's not this free thing. I cannot for the life of me believe people voted for a guy this fucking dumb.
Let’s get all of Congress and the Senate on regular old medical healthcare programs like the rest of us and see what their new song and dance would be.
Tommy knows the FoxNews demographic so well. I mean, no one older than 35 watches FoxNews right? It's basically the MTV audience, so going after social security makes so much sense. Doin' great Tommy, you're a stable genius, just like Dear Leader.
These 3 programs were incredible efficient in their operations which have been continually updated to make sure of those efficiencies. Now you can't even get a phone answered when calling. How do I know....I've been in the process of filing for Social Security over the last 2 months.
Social security is not a business. Health care is not a business. Education is not a business.
They are government funded provisions which any society should be entitled to. Let alone a society in one of the wealthiest countries on earth. Capitalism makes all these a profit-business: which is evil
And I use the word evil consciously. When the pursuit of profit leads to deaths - the poor education, leading to reduced life opportunities, through unaffordable decent health care and through lack of adequate social security leading to malnutrition and poor housing: how else can you describe it?
You're a fucking liar Tuberville!! SS HAS NOTHING TO WITH THE DEFICIT OR BALANCING THE BUDGET!!!
YOU FUCKERS HAVE BEEN WANTING TO GET YOUR SLIMEY HANDS ON OUR MONEY FOR DECADES, IT IS SELF FUNDED BY EMPLOYEE, EMPLOYER TAXES. YOU WANT TO TAKE OUR MONEY TO GIVE ANOTHER TAX BREAK TO YOUR DONORS.
YOU'D BETTER WATCH YOURSELVES YOU'RE TREADING VERY CLOSE TO 1789 FRANCE, DON'T THINK THAT IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE!! IT CAN AND IT WILL IF YOU MAGGANUTS ARE NOT OVERTURNED.
THE PATH IS FOR CORPORATIONS AND BILLIONAIRES TO SIMPLY PAY A FAIR TAX (that they won’t even notice is gone) TO FUND PROGRAMS THAT “MAINTAIN” A LOW BASIC LEVEL OF CARE FOR THE WORKING PEOPLE THEY EXPLOIT!!
They can also fund Elon‘s government contracts & billions in trafficking people to prisons.
"The Democrats are gonna run it in the ground ... when we don't help implement the plans they have to make these programs more solvent. It's their fault!"
What an absolute moron. A prime example of uninformed people voting in someone who wasn’t even smart enough to be good at his former job, no less actually functioning as a legislator.
Fox News is the reason our country is such a mess. The reason Trump is in office. And dumb morons like Tommy were elected. They have lied and brainwashed 1/2 the country.
For those who don't know, or like Tuberville, pretend not to, non-citizens with payroll jobs here in the U.S. *pay into* all these programs. But they *never* receive benefits unless they become citizens. So they mostly subsidize the rest of us. Meaning we take advantage of them, not the reverse.
He has it backwards if you do what the Democrats want you allow it to adjust the cap for inflation and require the wealthy to pay more. It’s Republican slice and dice policy that will break it.
Why are we even giving this fuckhead press time? Wit taking to these idiots. The press is complicit in this mess. Give your time to the democrats and the people who don't spend every second lying.
I will never understand why America’s representatives aren’t judged on the prosperity and conditions in their states.
How can men like this presume to bray on TV when their home states are a total disgrace?
And why don’t the nations of the world aspire to emulate the best-governed countries?
There were already watchdogs.
Trump wants to INCREASE debt by trillions.
Don’t believe for a minute.
The firings and rehirings have cost Americans loads of money
Deporting, imprisoning in internment camps, or shipping to life sentence in El Salvador costs billions and lost us billions in revenue.
All the repubs are awful leaders. They for sure do not serve their constituents. They're just mouthpiece for the Federalist. This country is going to Hell bc of those pricks.
This is what happens when MAGAts send goober football coaches to Congress, and the national media gives them airtime and attention to be stupid.
And, the federal government isn't a business, not that the goober football coach would have any idea what a business actually is.
So.... take everything we need to survive and then turn us all upside down to grab the last little bit of money falling out of our pockets. Will that make you happy, Tommy?
Liars. Sick of them and the media. All of you. It’s been almost a decade of “Trump is bad”. When do we remove him? That’s the only news I want to hear.
And that’s the mistake. Government is not a business. It’s function and goals are fundamentally different. Citizens are not customers, or clients. Government represents citizens’ will and interests, not, like a business, the other way around.
The US Navy is not profitable. It spends hundreds of billions put-putting nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines around the oceans preparing for imaginary enemies.
Really going to need the media to start pushing back on this "government is a business" line. It's insidious and accepting it as a premise is wrong and dumb.
Actually, we don't and you should be glad we don't run it like a business otherwise your state, which sucks government resources more than almost every other state would have to be 'let go.'
Tommy might have taken a few too many hits to the head when he got tackled to comprehend our government. Oh wait, he was a coach. So I got nothin' to explain reasoning...
Come April 14th, Doge is going to crash social security trying to update the computer system within a month’s time. If done in a normal like fashion, it would have taken a couple of years.
CYA maneuvers blame on the immigrants.
Immigrants get a social security card to work, ask Elon Musk.
Government should be for the benefit of the population of a country. Business is generally run for the benefit of those at the top of the business. Government is not a business. Even if it were Trump is a terrible businessman, which is now very apparent.
Tuber-ville is the GOPs village IDIOT!! He hasn’t a f*cking clue about his constituents or their lives and how his BLATANT STUPIDITY is hurting them!! ALABAMA…NEVER FORGET THIS P. O. S. & VOTE. HIM. OUT!!! He doesn’t DESERVE your SUPPORT!!
Republicans rely on Medicail/Medical, Medicare & Social Security for the disabled MORE than Dems.
ALL retired people receive Social Security which benefits add $0 to the national debt! OUR Social Security is FUNDED BY US and the government has no right to OUR Retirement Trust!
🛑 #StopTheSteal
The government is not a business, and if the above million dollar income crowd was paying a fair rate of taxes, we would have much more sitting in that Social Security so called “business” bank.
If you truly thought the government was a business, then why would you want a CEO who drove so many businesses bankrupt and had to be removed from leadership positions in others?
My goodness, at the moment we have our own problems in the UK with regard to the NHS. But it would terrify me living in the USA. Everything is business
if there is waste and fraud, thosee perpetrating it should be brought to justice. though, no one is being charged for anything, so where is the proof of fraud? where is the case spelled out to the public that this is happening. politics is not religion. we shouldn't just belive on faith.
You/your party have lost 1/2 trillion in revenue from the IRS due to cuts to staff under Trump. You have wasted literally 10's of millions in deporting immigrants w/o any sort of due process..then paid the country who's jailing them millions more..don't talk money w/us..you & GOP are unqualified to.
Those not supposed to be there, are out! 💀
If there is so much fraud, why hasn’t there been any arrests or charges filed, Tommy?
Typical Republican rubbish and gaslighting!
Yeah that's right. Get rid of desperately needed medical aid and cut taxes for billionaires because their really struggling since the stock market collapsed. Poor old Elon is down to his last couple of hundred billion. Maybe we should have a go fund me event.
One of the worst outcomes of the #Trump "era" is the absolutely, completely moronic people elected. There was always stupid people in politics, but puweee! This, now, it takes all records
Social security was tax to support this country by both the Republican party and the Democratic Party.
And it was supposed to allow people to work. And receive a check when they became old enough to retire from working and could not work No more, but you guys Took. money an Supported Yourselves.
This is the repeated claim of these idiots. Government is not a business, can't be run like a business, can't be measured like a business. A business aims for / has a specific clientele. Government has EVERYONE. Two diametrically opposed ways of operating.
Tubberville touting the party line even when demonstrably wrong is not even shocking what is us just how many people in his state depend upon it and he seems not to care. I hope they wake up before too late
The problem with elected leaders running the country like a business is I don't need another boss. Already got one and politicians are supposed to work for me.
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B) but, reporter could also have played along: “ok senator. If it’s a business, shouldn’t the CEO who unilaterally & pointlessly increased its supply costs & tanked its stock price by 15% within ten weeks of assuming the job be removed by the board?”
What if we raised the tax rate% on the uber rich a few more points?
Problem solved. 🤷♀️
Bc I’m no economist, but my guess is that if you start by wanting to destroy SS/Medicare/Medicaide, then you’re going to destroy it, not Dems
Businesses can go bankrupt. Governments can not.
Not without severe consequences to citizens, that is.
They are government funded provisions which any society should be entitled to. Let alone a society in one of the wealthiest countries on earth. Capitalism makes all these a profit-business: which is evil
YOU FUCKERS HAVE BEEN WANTING TO GET YOUR SLIMEY HANDS ON OUR MONEY FOR DECADES, IT IS SELF FUNDED BY EMPLOYEE, EMPLOYER TAXES. YOU WANT TO TAKE OUR MONEY TO GIVE ANOTHER TAX BREAK TO YOUR DONORS.
Given that Taxpayers are their customers.
They can also fund Elon‘s government contracts & billions in trafficking people to prisons.
Seriously- can someone PLEASE explain why our nat’l economy is run by the government of the poorest, least tax paying states?! Fucking stupid.
How can men like this presume to bray on TV when their home states are a total disgrace?
And why don’t the nations of the world aspire to emulate the best-governed countries?
If people are stealing, charge them.
If they're not, stop lying.
Trump wants to INCREASE debt by trillions.
Don’t believe for a minute.
The firings and rehirings have cost Americans loads of money
Deporting, imprisoning in internment camps, or shipping to life sentence in El Salvador costs billions and lost us billions in revenue.
But teach a man to coach football, and he will be a flaming asshole for the rest of his life.
He's 2/3s of a RETARD!
However, if it were real, would anybody be surprised?
And, the federal government isn't a business, not that the goober football coach would have any idea what a business actually is.
I guess $7.25 is where it dies? Why Dems aren't messaging about this harder I just do not understand
https://www.businessinsider.com/tommy-tuberville-ridiculous-to-ban-lawmakers-from-trading-stocks-2022-2
Gubbering the nation isn’t a bidnez.
CYA maneuvers blame on the immigrants.
Immigrants get a social security card to work, ask Elon Musk.
SOCIAL SERVICES
These lying GrifterOPs see traitors.
ALL retired people receive Social Security which benefits add $0 to the national debt! OUR Social Security is FUNDED BY US and the government has no right to OUR Retirement Trust!
🛑 #StopTheSteal
Social services provide a healthy, intellectual, world class society.
Democracy provides for the people, not for the few.
The top tax rate was 90%. How do you like that interstate highway system?
If he had a second brain cell, it’d be lonely.
If there is so much fraud, why hasn’t there been any arrests or charges filed, Tommy?
Typical Republican rubbish and gaslighting!
And it was supposed to allow people to work. And receive a check when they became old enough to retire from working and could not work No more, but you guys Took. money an Supported Yourselves.
“But you keep taking all the money out of our mortgage account and spending it on OnlyFans!”
“Yes, see, the system isn’t working. It’s your fault for wanting a house.”