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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitch McConnell Blames the Poor for Trump's Trillion-Dollar Deficit
GOP are the LOOTERS.
Its disappointing, but its not a Republican problem, says the man who just passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut.
by Bess Levin
October 16, 2018 7:06 pm
n a life filled with uncertainty, there are a few things you can always count on. First, that death comes for everyone. Second, that the current president of the United States will call an adult-film star he paid to keep quiet about an alleged affair horseface on social media. And third, that after passing a $1.5 trillion tax cut they insisted would pay for itself and then some, Republicans would blame social services like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security for exploding deficits and debt and insist that such entitlements, sadly, have got to go.
As a reminder, the Grand Old Party put on a big show of pretending to care about fiscal responsibility when Barack Obama was in office and mouth-watering tax cuts werent on the line. Only one thing can save this country, and thats to get a handle on this deficit-and-debt issue, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insisted after the 44th president won his second term. The federal fiscal burden threatens the security, liberty, and independence of our nation, the Republican Party platform warned in 2016. Youre bankrupting our grandchildren! was a common refrain, as were proclamations such as, I wont endorse a bill that adds one penny to the deficit! Then Donald Trump won the election, and all those worries about crippling the next generation and the country going to hell in a handbasket vanished overnightalmost as though it was feigned in the first place!with Republicans not only demanding that Congress pass a deficit-busting piece of legislation so that the president and his children could pay even fewer taxes than they already do, but maintaininglaws of math, physics, time and space be damnedthat the bill once known as the Cut Cut Cut Act would actually help shrink the deficit.
But as the G.O.P. surely knew, that was never going to happen. Instead, as we learned this week, the U.S. budget deficit increased to $779 billion for the fiscal year, a 17 percent increase from the year prior, which is extra bad considering the economy is doing well, a scenario in which the federal deficit typically falls. Luckily, Mitch McConnell knows exactly who and what to blame:
Its disappointing, but its not a Republican problem, McConnell said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg News when asked about the rising deficits and debt. Its 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.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/mitch-mcconnell-blames-the-poor-for-trumps-trillion-dollar-deficit
Freethinker65
(10,033 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,877 posts)Just as boomers, who have paid more into these programs than any other generation are retiring.
Fuck you McTurtleboy, Fuck YOU!
Chipper Chat
(9,685 posts)Because the poor aren't working FOUR jobs like they are supposed to be doing.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)I started getting WIC vouchers when I was pregnant with my second child (2 of 3) in 1991. Then when my daughter was 7 (1997)and my husband was working full time and I was babysitting we qualified for Medicaid and she had her adenoids removed with an out patient procedure.
I apologize to all the rich fucks that I harmed for doing this.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)They're like the evil that must be contained in a box. Never let them have the majority on anything.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,390 posts)Get rid of the lying, stealing GOP. Then, get rid of the idiotic ceiling on taxes.
McCONnell wants to destroy the safety net for the poor, sick, and elderly, while maintaining a ceiling above which no one pays taxes.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Or the wiidow's fault because she only raised the kids, handled all of the bills and housework, and made sure her husband had everything he needed when he left for work? Or the veteran's fault for getting wounded?
'Tis a ponderous chain Mitch is forging in life.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)GOP are sad excuses for human beings.