If the Democrats can't bring themselves to say "government spending is good, actually" in this precise moment, then they really are cooked and all need to be replaced.
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Aaron Rupar
Welker to Slotkin: "Democrats were in charge for four years. You were in Congress at the time. Why didn't Democrats do more to cut government spending when they were in charge?"
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You alone have zero power to tell a corporation you are being driven bankrupt by their greed, your government fights for you.
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20240713282/privatization-is-taking-over-medicare-and-it-cost-taxpayers-an-extra-61-billion-last-year
You dems are garbage.
Senator Slotkin is a freshman Senator who isn't on the budget committee.
BUT all spending should be open, accountable, checked by congress and come from a gov department, NOT a separate agency.
The real answer to this is question takes both those things into account.
Luckily nobody watches legacy media anymore.
With relief that Slotkin is not formidable ideologically, Welker's executives (republican) then pat her on the head for being tough on the socialist libs.
& what do you mean it wasn't done? That was the job of the 12 Inspectors Generals that Trump-elon fired. how much have you reported on that?
Government is there to serve the people.
Why can’t Americans understand this?
We’re on our own, folks.
When you start out with "Government waste", you've ALREADY LOST.
You have to CHANGE THE FRAME, as many on this thread understand.
https://george-lakoff.com/2014/11/29/george-lakoff-in-politics-progressives-need-to-frame-their-values/
https://andrelevy.net/lakoff_framing101.pdf
but you seem ignorant of a very common, century old thing in this country
Most americans hold, almost as a religous belief, that gov't is full of waste
"As a Cold War kid, I'm thankful it was Reagan and not Trump in office in the 1980s. Trump would have lost us the Cold War."
I'd say "this isn't rocket science", but rocket science has some unfortunate connotations right now.
Sure. Go ahead. Nothing stopping you. Recruit candidates, raise funds, develop strategies, craft your own messages, connect with voters. This may take a little time, so maybe you'd better get started now, like, today. Right?
probabilities of successfully running a figure head campaign without oligarchical intervention, mean anything to you? Or do you think leftists online and in the streets actually do get paid by a shadow billionaire?
But supposedly, it's the other party that has the advantage on idiots. Are we so sure?
The press not calling this bullshit out is gross.
The fact that no one seems to be able to articulate this is infuriating.
And it requires an appropriate govt spending to reach that level of services. Only collecting proper taxes would solve debt issues.
Democrats stop being Republicans.
“We believe spending money on cancer research is a positive for our constituents“
Trump/Musk are handing Dems talking points.
Oh! That Lovely Money!!
DNC is controlled by big money.
But economic progressives exist.
https://newrepublic.com/article/192078/democrats-become-workers-party-sherrod-brown
Taking over local GOP committees is how MAGA/TP took over t GOP. https://hartmannreport.com/p/precinct-committee-persons
Why settle for public schools generating educated children who will produce millions when you can also sell that education by privatising schools?
Businesses debt finance when the return is good. Roads, education, public health, childcare... So much government spending creates net value at an ROI that would be the envy of any business.
Why can't Dems say that?
DOGE keeps cutting things that MAKE the govt money (or prevent extra spend).
The only problem is that with no future free elections to come in our lifetime, it really doesn’t matter any longer at this point who the Democ-🐀 are.
'Where we spend our money and who pays for it' should be the Dem framing.
Spend it on people and don't expect the lower income people to pay the bill.
It's like a husband saying to his wife 'I'm going to keep all the money I make and you have to pay all the bills.'
The messaging isn’t hard
repeat until desired results achieved