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MariaCSR

(642 posts)
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 07:33 AM Feb 2018

House GOP to take aim at entitlements

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/373930-citing-deficits-house-gop-to-take-aim-at-entitlements

I think it’s fundamental,” Womack said of entitlement reform. “Seventy-eight percent of what we spend in your tax dollars goes out on autopilot.”

Womack emphasized that it’s early in the process — “I'm not going to try to prescribe an outcome for my committee,” he said — but floated the notion of tapping reconciliation as a device for fast-tracking entitlement changes. 

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beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
2. don't overlook GOP getting rid of the prevailing wage act as a way to "save" money
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 07:47 AM
Feb 2018

and rid our country of the trade unions that ensure fair wages for working men and women

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
6. Yes, beware. This did this in MO, so far (prevailing wage), I haven't heard any ...
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 08:14 AM
Feb 2018

negative impacts of this legislation, but am waiting for results, because I know there will be.

Another sneaky way to steal our wages. Plain and simple. As thought millionaires and billionaires aren't getting enough. God, Hell is going to be a busy place w/ all of these people, since most of them can't pass through the eye of a needle (camels = billionaires and millionaires).

Not all of these billionaires and millionaires aren't bad people. However, it's getting harder and harder to defend these rich guys.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
9. any state can do this as long as project does not have federal funds, if they do,
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 09:42 AM
Feb 2018

be in violation of the terms of the use of the federal monies.

the hate of the GOP of working americans no longer can be ignored. Taft-Hartley Pravialing Wage act is the conerstone of all trade unions in america and been on the GOP's radar for years to eliminate.

duforsure

(11,882 posts)
3. The GOP/Russian party
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 07:55 AM
Feb 2018

Need to go. Taking Social Security away from seniors, or their Medicare is their next target. Vote!

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
5. I abhor every one of these vile creeps. That, I know, wont get anything
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 08:02 AM
Feb 2018

accomplished and sometimes my single vote (is it really counted???) seems pointless.
That vote (and accompanying advocacy) is the only power I have because the hate alone won’t get them the hell out.
They will steal and cheat and lie because they not only can, they are enabled by the “process”.
The vote is all I have and I will use it.

But the hate is still very strong.

8. As a percentage of the budget, most of our tax dollars go to the military
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 09:30 AM
Feb 2018

We all know there's no fraud, abuse or waste in that organization.

sinkingfeeling

(51,276 posts)
10. That's the f**king idiot that 'represents' me. I made him angry at one of his
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 11:03 AM
Feb 2018

townhalls when I asked him about his voting to repeal Obamacare.

He's like 45: give the military everything it desires, start more wars, and the citizens of the United States can go to hell if they don't have a couple of million bucks.

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