Ramaswamy: hundreds of billions of dollars can be cut from Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare through “basic program integrity measures.” Seemingly a starkly different position than Trump took in his first term
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Right- we're talking like 1-5% that maybe exists, and if someone were able to a) correctly identify and b) effectively eliminate even half that they would be a miracle worker. Instead, we're dealing with Dunning-Krueger incarnate who mostly lucked into his fortune.
Trump better be prepared to really truly end democracy if he wants to go down this route, because otherwise the GOP will cease to be a viable political party. Not only did Trump 'not campaign' on cutting these programs, he claimed to have saved the far-less-popular ACA!
He seems to be insinuating that there are data integrity issues that might be causing SSA to overpay. I’d be fascinated to see the remediation plan given the HUGE number of SS recipients. Also he didn’t offer any evidence of that or what the magnitude is. 😳
They’re going to make applying for social security and Medicare so difficult no one will be able to qualify. Or, we’ll have to pay for-profit entities to help us because President Musk did away with customer service.
I just got off a short on-line chat with a medicare rep; it was efficient, informative, professional. I learned what I needed without any undue delays. They answered all my turning-65-this-month questions. I'm glad I got them answered before the rep gets downsized out of his job.
This is absolute horse shit that hundreds of billions of dollars are being paid out to ppl who are not entitled to it. And Musk and Swammy are gonna find that.
I stated the same thing and a MAGA didn’t understand what was wrong with that period in time. Had no idea about the subsequent monopoly bust. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
It's NOT immigrants or trans folks who are coming after the ACA, Social Security, Medicare, and *veteran's* healthcare. It's BILLIONAIRES like Musk and Ramaswamy. They push for PLUTOCRACY while hiding behind a made-up Department of Government "Efficiency."
a polite request to please add alt text when posting images going forward… alt text makes your message accessible to blind and other screenreader users who are much more likely than average to need to know this info.
oops, the last sentence of the alt text got cut off, and the final visible text in the screenshot is: “striking a deal to be able to continue telework”
I actually heard pre-election they want some of us to go back to work. If you know any employers who are interested in hiring senior citizens I've got a bridge to sell you....🙄
I prefer the GOP’s original term for “basic program integrity measures” when they first fought the ACA during the Obama administration. “Death panels” sounded so metal. I’m shocked Elon hasn’t resurrected that term yet.
If GenX feels like they’ve always been ignored, how will they feel when they find out the Social Security they’ve paid into for decades no longer exists.
As Trump said, “I don’t care about you. I just want your votes.”
And they gladly complied as his core constituency.
Combine this with even more generous tax cuts for rich people and... the GOP has just solved Democrats' significant political problems for at least the next election cycle.
Elon could save a lot of time & money ("efficiency"!) by asking Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) how his company, HCA, defrauded Medicare of billions of dollars. It's how he enriched himself, enabling him to become governor of, and now senator from, Florida.
At some point, we lowered corporate taxes,subsidized corporate profit losses, and started paying for corporate employee benefits that would not be needed if they paid a living wage.
Government is only good when it has the people's oversight, but DOGE will just be political weaponization for profit.
Fun fact: government programs have far more oversight than private ones. But Ramsaswampmusk knows nothing but grifting, so I'm sure he's already setting up a business to run payments through.
Can't wait for GQP to spend millions of dollars to verify that everyone collecting Social Security is actually the age they say they are and that their 40 year work history is true.
I saw a comment on tiktok in regard to this.. cutting benefits for millions of veterans who own guns and have PTSD is probably not in their best interests
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Oh wait, that's a GOP program.
1) tax cuts for the wealthy
2 tax cuts for corporations
We need to use these definitions. Stop letting Republicans define the term.
Pay Attention!
This is absolute horse shit that hundreds of billions of dollars are being paid out to ppl who are not entitled to it. And Musk and Swammy are gonna find that.
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I never heard bragging about the savings after the fact.
Although with this crowd, bragging proceeds naturally from failure.
I take it as defamation of the programs and government generally.
Next week, we will hear that "American seniors need to do more with less"
Good job boomers
Resist!
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i’ll provide it as a reply
Would you mind explaining what you mean? I’m drawing a blank about it
As Trump said, “I don’t care about you. I just want your votes.”
And they gladly complied as his core constituency.
Elon could save a lot of time & money ("efficiency"!) by asking Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) how his company, HCA, defrauded Medicare of billions of dollars. It's how he enriched himself, enabling him to become governor of, and now senator from, Florida.
Government is only good when it has the people's oversight, but DOGE will just be political weaponization for profit.
Are we great yet?
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/11/21/musk-ramaswamy-proposal-slash-spending-could-include-va-medical-services.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rick-scott-persecuted-medicare-fraud-trump-1235018008/