Rep. Mark Alford: "It is true that the Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up about 75% of our budget. We've got to find the savings there. We will do that."
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This is what happens when the electorate (voters) don't know what the hell they are voting on. Anyone with half a brain and who pays a limited amount of attention would know that the GOP would at least try and attempt this.
It's a given that they "will do that" by hastening the death of anyone elderly or with a disability by pulling their access to medical care/medications and shrugging when these people are thrown into the street, starving, because they have no money. It's the Nazi Life Undeserving of Life mindset.
This empty suit is afraid of his own constituents and runs away from town halls, joking about their concerns by describing it as "lets have 30 seconds of yelling while I drink a cup of coffee."
And to fired fed workers who worry about their future? "Don't worry - god has a plan."
Stripping our services which we already paid for to give tax breaks to billionaires. The Republican Criminal Organization is overseeing the largest theft in history. And all to transfer wealth to people who literally do not need it.
Public discourse is dead. Yes, entitlement programs are 78% of mandatory spending, but that is only 38% of the federal budget. Defense is discretionary (but effectively mandatory as it will never be significantly cut). GOPers are disingenuous when they present this "mandatory" line to naive public
What a load of crap. This isn't part of the federal budget. We fund these directly out of our paychecks. They're called entitlements because WE'RE ENTITLED TO THEM! It's literally OUR money! What the hell do they claim to be cutting other than our access to our own money?!?!
In Missouri, as of 2024, approximately 1.33 million residents are enrolled in Medicare, and 1.32 million are enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP, representing roughly 18% and 17% of the state's population, respectively. 29.7% of Missouri residents had incomes below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level. Cut?
We've got to find the savings so Elon can keep blowing up rockets and Zuckerberg can keep doing whatever the fuck it is he does. Surely those things are worth a little death, right? Shit it's just poor people
The Misters Tя☭mp & M☭sk would prefer SS & Medicare & Medicaid be converted to Sovereign Medallion accounts for them to raid for their own wealth enrichments.
I remember a Biden SOTU address, where he said the GOP wanted to cut these programs and they just booed him and called him a liar.
He was 100% right and THEY are the liars.
It’s not savings if it’s arbitrary cuts that impact benefits to taxpayers who have paid their own money into these programs. News anchors need to hold them accountable for the language they are using.
How to find savings? How about raising the cap on earnings they collect SS from. Even raising it to $500k from $176k would make a difference and not even hurt the wealthy.
Just as a reminder, the Social Security trust was fully funded until Reagan stripped out the cash and dumped in a bunch of IOUs. American taxpayers separately fund it now. It doesn't come out of the general fund. The fact that this isn't getting fact checked is painful.
What I don't get is why no one is asking what their intention is with the SSI portion of taxes, then. This isn't even a challenging call-out by the press. Ah, so you're cutting Social Security and Medicare? How much of a corresponding reduction will people see on their SSI taxes, since it's a trust?
Elon Musk is perhaps in the above avera6iq bracket. He is not a brainiak with an unfathomable iq. Someone needs to get that through to people, and these fools who claim he is should be corrected on camera
American politicians get rich on the funds they raise while directing the government funds for their donors benefit. They drool over the prospects of adding to their available funds to entice greater donations.
Fuck you! Social security is not an entitlement, it is OUR money. Just because you jackasses spent money you shouldn’t have and refuse to give it back doesn’t mean you can take MY money. What a bunch of thugs!!
Granted there is waste fraud and abuse in those “entitlements”, but it’s not on the government side, it’s usually on the user side. And it’s all corruption which are crimes so find the criminals and prosecute them. The systems don’t need cutting or reform.
The reason they take up so much of the budget is because the people fund it. It is for The People you asshat oh yeah. The People fund everything. Ty you for your service now shut up
What they don't get is that for Social Security government is the insurance company, not the philanthropy. If they don't fulfill the contract they are stealing the money.
These Republicans think the government is there to serve them, when really, they are supposed to be serving the American People. They are The Entitled.
Cut the peoples pay who have worked for the guarantee of SS! Cut those who rely on Medicare/Medicaid to sustain their lives! What doesn’t get cut? Those who vote to hurt us , PAYCHECKS & HEALTHCARE all ‘gifted’ on our taxes! What’s INSANE? People who vote for these deplorable again & again!
Here's savings for ya, Markie. How about we make your job a two-term position? Every one of you in Congress. No additional benies, no need to run for a another term. Term limits in place. Salary u I'm lowered. SCOTUS needs term limits, too.
You need a very high level of cruelty to talk about this in this way, but that seems to be a requirement to be a Republican these days. Cruelty, selfishness and racism.
They just don't care. Never have, never will. The priority is to f$#@ the poor & middle class in pursuit of authoritarianism & oligarchy. This admin is ONLY working for the rich & greedy. Full stop.
So he's a genius in government entitlement paid for programs? The IGs fired were experts in this field. This cat knows he's a genius in this field, does he carry a card?
I have a novel idea, leave SS, Medicare and Medicaid alone and tax the hell out of the wealthy who have so much money that they would never spend it all.
This echoes Musk’s interview with Larry Kudlow that Trump plans to gut Social Security & Medicare! Musk said it’s a giveaway by Dems to illegal immigrants. I call that BS - it’s for American Senior Citizens! 🇺🇸 #Trump #Musk #AARP #Medicare
NOT TRUE! Social Security is NOT part of the budget! It is self funded by our contributions from every single one of our paychecks our entire lives! The interest from Republicans borrowing from the SS trust and never paying it back is the problem!
They're going to try and thread the needle of Fraud = people legitimately eligible and receiving benefits, but we don't really like and or respect those types of people so they shouldn't get anything and that's fraud
Medicare and Social Security are an entitlement because we paid for it all of our working life. It is the peoples money. The trust fund was created so that the boomer generation would have enough money for our retirement because the generation coming after us was smaller in number than the boomers.
I’m confident the good people of MO will would like know that Alford is taking away their SS, Medicare and Medicaid. DEMs get to local markets and let their constituents know what Republicans are doing to them. Huge opportunity for DEMs.
MO? They have taken away a lot within the state and there have been no complaints. We have our own MAGA crazies in the state house that put those in DC to shame
And 850 billion plus defense budget ? Why not cut waste from that budget. Defence budget is being increased under Trump . Republicans are liars and cruel
The military seems the best avenue for finding and eliminating waste.
Reducing wasteful spending in the military would fund everything that have been sabotaged for years to come.
Absolutely. Defense contractors are crooks. They never deliver on time. Everything comes in over budget and they just spent a huge amount of money on stock buybacks.
Elon is a 'brainiac' 😂
So, he knows he should pay higher taxes, not receive a huge tax cut when debt is this dire, because any imbecile can figure that out, right? But he assumes everyone else is stupid and he can pull off this scam?Lo another R peddling Musk propaganda-presumably for personal gain
Keep in mind when they use the word "waste" what they mean is they think it's a waste that these programs even exist. Therefore the entire thing falls under "waste, fraud, and abuse."
75% uhm maybe not lie to promote yourself and your disgusting 🤢 cutting from people that need that money. It’s only 21% of the budget you blithering fool gawd these people aaghhghgg they are so fucking far out in left field binoculars can’t find them.
If the disabled would just die a few seconds after birth and the people died on the job or immediately after they are unable to do their job MAGA republicans, the 1%, and others with a similar mindset would be happy.
SS and Medicare have dedicated funding sources that are separate from the general fund, meaning they have NO EFFECT on the deficit. Cutting them will NOT reduce the deficit.
From the MOST WEALTHY CONGRESS IN HISTORY!! From the party that rode the votes of the poor and elderly INTO OFFICE YET AGAIN!! Of course they are going after Medicare/Medicaid/SS that helped/forced Americans out of the gutter. They have nothing to regret, and now they can have their Aristocracy!!
Does anyone bother to ask these folks who want to eliminate/slash "entitlements" why they aren't looking at ways to tax folks who have billions of dollars? You know, we used to actually do that.
Entitlements? Social Security Meets The Clear Legal Definition Of An INVESTMENT PENSION, Which Is Why The SS Tax Is Separate From Congressional Taxation, As It Is By Law Only For Maintaining The SS Benefit Trust To WE THE PEOPLE Who Signed The Contract As Soon As We Got Our First Taxed Paycheck.
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Medicare - 12%
Social security - 22%
Do the maths.
And to fired fed workers who worry about their future? "Don't worry - god has a plan."
Do the ‘Hosts’ not know the facts —or is it their job to advance the lie!?
Social Security belongs to those that paid into it!
Shame on you @CNN!
I wonder how many Americans think an "entitlement" program is public aid?
Billionaire propaganda is very effective mainly because it's prolific
End of story.
It's not just fiscal sense. At this point, reducing the wealth gap is a national security emergency!
Slash Social Security.
Eviscerate Medicare.
Exsanguinate Medicaid.
Dear American Seniors,
Hurry up and die.
With hate,
Trumusk
Ps: 5/8 of you in nursing homes on Medicaid must be picked up by end of business, Friday.
Have fun!
Here’s your chance.
They’re earnings.
He was 100% right and THEY are the liars.
SS 23%
MC 10%
MCA 10%
Defense and Veterans 18%
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Governments are not supposed to be efficient or make a profit, they’re supposed to help people and manage the social contract.
It should only print dollars for Musk !!!!!
No. No he is not. He has no idea what he's doing and yet to grasp that the government is not a business and should never be run like one.
Alford probably shouldn't get his reelection hopes up.
Also, they sure AF won't "find" any savings, any more than Trump couldn't "find" votes in Georgia in 2020.
It's because both are imaginary. The "savings" can only come from denying SSI or Medicare.
As a reminder, on Trump's first or second day of this term, DOGE somehow fucked up Medicaid disbursements for a couple of hours.
Despite ONLY lasting that long, it prompted a full-on meltdown/panic.
They won't "find" jack, and FAFO w/entitlements is insane.
I like to sell you some bonds of South Atlantic Steamship Company.
They think we won’t know the difference ‘cause we’re stupid
#TaxTheRich
#TaxTheChurch
Reducing wasteful spending in the military would fund everything that have been sabotaged for years to come.
So, he knows he should pay higher taxes, not receive a huge tax cut when debt is this dire, because any imbecile can figure that out, right? But he assumes everyone else is stupid and he can pull off this scam?Lo another R peddling Musk propaganda-presumably for personal gain
No they don’t
Add the names of the billionaires who need to be de-funded. Stop giving them our wealth. Their billions come from us!!!
#defundbillionaires
#defundoligarchs
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"Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God."
Most Republicans have two !
One to take care of business, the other to talk with!
Dig this tho “he’s not a master uh artful language person like a politician”,
Says the uh politician.
And musk wasn’t elected. He has no authority.