{"id":137335,"date":"2018-10-17T10:25:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/17\/a-vote-for-the-gop-is-a-vote-for-cutting-social-security-medicare-and-medicaid.html"},"modified":"2018-10-17T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:25:55","slug":"a-vote-for-the-gop-is-a-vote-for-cutting-social-security-medicare-and-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/17\/a-vote-for-the-gop-is-a-vote-for-cutting-social-security-medicare-and-medicaid.html","title":{"rendered":"A vote for the GOP is a vote for cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having massively ratcheted up the federal budget deficit by passing a tax cut with $1 trillion in revenue reductions over the next decade, and then jacking up military spending by a significant amount at the same time, Senate Majority Leader McConnell makes it clear that, nope, the real cause of the budget deficit is all those poor, sick, old people.<\/p>\n

“It’s disappointing, but it’s not a Republican problem,” McConnell said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg News when asked about the rising deficits and debt. “It’s a bipartisan problem: unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the demographics of America in the future.”<\/i><\/p>\n

But he realizes if the GOP push it forward on their own, it will make them very, very unpopular, so, hey, he wants to drag the Dems into it as well.<\/p>\n

McConnell said it would be “very difficult to do entitlement reform, and we’re talking about Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid,” with one party in charge of Congress and the White House. “I think it’s pretty safe to say that entitlement changes, which is the real driver of the debt by any objective standard, may well be difficult if not impossible to achieve when you have unified government,” McConnell said.<\/i><\/p>\n

McConnell is very clear — the GOP's intent is to suddenly change course, emphasize how bad the deficit they created (or at least substantially worsened) is, and insist that the only thing to do about it is cut critical social programs. The idea of reversing the tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, or reducing military spending so that we're only outspending the next five<\/i> biggest-spending nations on defense rather than the next seven,<\/i> those are clearly off the GOP table.<\/p>\n

I don't know if that influences anyone's vote — but it certainly should.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday blamed rising federal deficits and debt on a bipartisan unwillingness to contain spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and said he sees little chance of a major deficit reduction deal while Republicans control Congress and the White House.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Having massively ratcheted up the federal budget deficit by passing a tax cut with $1 trillion in revenue reductions over the next decade, and then jacking up military spending by a significant amount at the same time, Senate Majority Leader McConnell makes it clear that, nope, the real cause of the budget deficit is all … Continue reading “A vote for the GOP is a vote for cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133979,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/28\/so-is-the-senate-done-with-aca-repeal-now.html","url_meta":{"origin":137335,"position":0},"title":"So is the Senate done with ACA repeal NOW?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Jul-17 7:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Short answer: not as long as the GOP holds a Senate majority.Longer answer: For the moment, probably yes. 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