Madison Cawthorn wants to destroy Social Security to 'incentivize' the elderly to work

[tblue37]

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Madison Cawthorn unveils his 'Contract with America' that destroys social security to 'incentivize' elderly to work

U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) has revealed his “New Contract with America” that’s designed to destroy Social Security, one of the most successful and life-saving programs in U.S. history, to “incentivize” the elderly to return to work.

That’s just one aspect of what Cawthorn describes as a 10-point plan that reads like a far right-wing dream from capitalist kingpins to return America to the days of child labor, seven-day work weeks, and no retirement for senior citizens. But it does call for the federal government to “promote and celebrate the American manufacturing and agriculture industry by incentivizing domestic production,” despite the US economy being so on fire the Federal Reserve is poised to dramatically raise interest rates to cool off spending and so-called “inflation.”

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It includes “slashing government spending by a third by 2031; enacting a balanced budget amendment; and abolishing the income tax and finding a replacement flat tax or consumption tax by 2026,” Fox News adds.

“The contract also calls for abolishing the Department of Education, making English the official language of the United States, banning federal funding for critical race theory teachings, and enacting school choice on the federal level so federal dollars follow the students to their school of choice, including private religious schools.”

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https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/madison-cawthorn-2656782306/

[Lovie777]

1. And Scott want to raise taxes on the poor, seniors and middle class ......

[BadgerMom]

48. Welcome to the Republican campaign 2022!

Tax Granny, that lazy layabout, and all hail Putin! Who the bloody hell thought up these ideas?

[dalton99a]

2. Lazy asshole needs to get off his ass and start walking

[Escurumbele]

40. Good one...and I agree to that message.

[dixiechiken1]

47. Coffee flew out my nose on that one 🤣🤣🤣 Well done

[NCjack]

56. I think that congressional members should get the same deal as Marines in WDC.

The same pay as a Marine grunt, a barracks with bed, kitchen and dining room, 2 sets of uniforms, free buses from barracks to Capital Hill, an infirmary -- you get the idea.

Work 8 hours per day when present and working, 5 days a week and more when the job is not finished.

No retirement pension, no Social Security.

Round trip home airplane ticket, once per year.

If you don't like it, don't run for congress.

[George II]

60. Last week he tweeted "I stand with president trump", THAT was greeted with some interesting....

....and derisive responses.

[Liberal In Texas]

3. In other words, the repubs want to turn us into Russia.

These people need to be run out of town on a rail.

[vlyons]

25. only after tar and feathering them

nt

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Absolutely! ElderWork to support 20-something Nazi Thugs in luxury

with limousines, in legislatures all across the US! What could be more patriotic! What Return on Equity and family-centric ideals this fine young man lives by!

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. Yes! Everyone wants an 80 year old employee using a

walker.

That guy is just insane.

People paid for SS. You can't just go "sorry."

[BlueJac]

6. Fuck him!

[MissMillie]

7. Is there a link?

Looks like you're "snipping" from something. I'd love to read the whole thing.

[Vinca]

8. When I saw the headline I assumed it was "The Onion." Curious to know the source, too.

[stopdiggin]

19. my immediate thought

then I read a little further - and not sure. I personally think Cawthorn is a sock puppet - so this 'platform' probably comes from somewhere else.

[mollie8]

49. Agree

I've thought he was just a puppet since he came on the scene, probably recruited by Mark Meadows/Trump?

[tblue37]

29. Added to OP. Sorry--I forgot.

[teach1st]

21. Link to the Alternet article

https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/madison-cawthorn-2656782306/

[KarenS]

9. I cannot even say out loud what I think about this,,,,

seriously,,,, I will probably burn in hell for thought crimes.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Yeah, join the club.

And, this little prick isn't even at the top of my list. They're making it really, really hard for me to bite my tongue.

[obamanut2012]

11. Will all of us be refunded what we've paid into Social Security?

Will retirees have to repay what they've already been given? Will they have Medicare?

These people like him are scary AF. And, this asshole would be hung on a meat hook or shot in the head after his Fascist "allies" take over.

[intheflow]

51. The majority of the Repug party is 50 and older.

So I don't think this message of "work until you die" is going to be wildly popular among constituents.

[obamanut2012]

63. Oh, agree

[madaboutharry]

12. Those lazy 85-year old great grandmas need to earn their keep!

How did this asshole ever get elected?

[Deminpenn]

13. Does he realize all these folks on Soc Security are a big

part of the R base and they are the most likely to vote in every election?

[Demovictory9]

14. link?

[tblue37]

31. Here. Sorry.

https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/madison-cawthorn-2656782306

[we can do it]

15. What an ass.

[underpants]

16. Go punch a tree moron.

[EYESORE 9001]

17. Conservatives have tried to destroy Social Security since its inception

This worthless shithead twerp won’t succeed.

[msfiddlestix]

18. will someone please shove some concertina wire down his throat and wrap him up in it..

roll him down the sewer where he belongs..

I'd be forever grateful.

[Johnny2X2X]

20. Par for the course

Right now, I know people are blinded by inflation, but workers are seeing the biggest gains in modern history. It's driving Republicans crazy to see working people finally get a raise. And they see labor shortages a a huge problem that is driving it. So anything to force more people to work is good with them, right on down the line. They want to gut social security to force the retired back into the work force. Dems efforts to lower the age for Medicare would allow millions to retire earlier, Republicans cannot risk that so they fight it.

Labor shortages are amazing, keep them up and fix the supply chain issues to get inflation back under control and we're on the verge of the rebirth of the American Middle Class. Republicans will do everything in their power to stop that.

[EddieOnTheMesa]

22. So Useless

He seems to have lost the use of his minuscule mind as well as his legs.

[The Jungle 1]

23. English the national language

So I guess my neighbors will not be allowed to speak Pennsylvania Dutch anymore. How is that for American.
Yo Cawthorn you are a fascist.

[lonely bird]

24. Link to Fux Noise that talks about Cawthorn's bullshit

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/madison-cawthorn-unveils-republican-platform

[Traildogbob]

26. It's not like

This little shit has been getting free Social Security Disability checks his whole fucking adult life, and never paid in because he never had a job. I never wanted to beat the hell out of a wheel chair bound Asshole before. Maybe he and Rick Scott can run on the same ticket for President and VP.

[no_hypocrisy]

27. 1. Age discrimination is rampant, starting at age 40.

2. Not all seniors medically and/or physically can work at age 65+.
3. His bill would decidedly destroy Social Security. What’s next? Disable Disability?

[KS Toronado]

28. Reads like all the wet dreams

the Kochsucker Brothers have been promoting at ALEC meetings for years.

[ashredux]

32. He is a stupid child. Time to send him home.

[XacerbatedDem]

33. The guy's an idiot, just says idiot crap like that to get on Faux news.

It's just the whole idea that the Repug party would just sit there and let their members get away with this crap. Makes me sick.

[IronLionZion]

34. Yup, and screw over many of his party's elderly voters

dude is such a dumbass

[area51]

35. "slashing government spending by a third by 2031"

That better be the military budget.

[JanMichael]

36. Another young person who has never really worked saying people over 62 need to work more.

He should try working the full 40 lifetime credits first. I have and I'm 54.

Shithead.

[Delmette2.0]

37. Does anyone remember the 3 legged stool analogy?

There was a time perhaps in the late 1990's or early 2000's when we were told to make sure we had three things to have retirement security.

1. Employment retirement fund
2. Personal savings
3. Social Security

Well, too many employers have taken the employees retirement fund, or the Equity Investment Company has taken it all.

What personal saving? Our minimum wage has not risen in decades. If entry level jobs are stagnant so are raises and wages when you get a promotion.

Social Security has been under attack forever.

Where is that three legged stool now?

[Blaukraut]

38. And federal dollars to brainwash kids. Best get them started early so it sticks n/t

[orangecrush]

39. People need to have

Public chats with this guy.

[tblue37]

42. And smack him upside the head.

[orangecrush]

45. No violence

Advocating violence is a tos violation.

I agree with the emotion, but not the method.

Protestors should follow this little asshole every time he steps out in public.

[Farmer-Rick]

50. I think that is just a saying

It was a common remark when I was growing up. It doesn't really mean to hit him. It just means to give him stern advice.

[tblue37]

53. Right. It's like the old warning about "putting your eye out with that thing."

[orangecrush]

58. Thanks, Farmer Rick

I get it now.

[mrsadm]

41. Tell him he needs to work on implementing a stupid tax

All RW believers, truckers, anti-vaccers, anti-science people, etc. need to pay this tax.

[ProfessorGAC]

43. Isn't This An Ideal Way...

...for Rs to lose 90% of over 50 voters?
Man, he's an idiot.

[Emile]

44. Work cheap or starve contract! Sounds like a Republican idea!

[Farmer-Rick]

46. Yeah, and those babies and kids just sitting around

Drinking milk night and day, pooping in their diapers, not even getting up to use the toilet like a rich man or Trump, going to school, playing on playgrounds and not slaving away for one of the 700 filthy rich American Oligarchs. How Dare They!!'!?

And then those lazy elderly people who walk so slowly like they have all day, worked all their life and now want a free ride. Those oldsters dying from COVID left and right, just trying to get out of work. Put them out to greet Walmart customers if nothing else. Then if they die from COVID, who cares we get to keep their Social Security. How Dare those lazy old people, that no one will hire because they're old, think the deserve a few years of retirement when the filthy rich haven't taken away every thing from them yet.

[azureblue]

52. Incentivize him

Take away his wheelchair to incentivize him to walk.

[twodogsbarking]

54. I worked for more than 50 years.

That is more than enough. So, with all due respect, fuck you asshole.

[Norbert]

55. Two words, FUCK YOU

I worked my ass off for 50 years and EARNED my SS. By earning I mean I didn't become a right wing shill paid for by Americans.

[Buckeyeblue]

57. This is nothing new. Republicans hate social security. Always have.

I think the big issue is how could SS be ended? The only way it could be done would be to draw a line in the sand for those who have yet to be born, say 2030.

For those of us who have paid into SS for years, if the Republicans ended SS, there would have to be a significant refund of what was paid in, with compounded interest.

I think by taking out SS funds from paychecks, the government has established a contract with its contributors.

It would be a mess to try to undo it.

[George II]

59. How does he feel about the ADA, should we repeal that too?

[packman]

61. Yah, get those lazy bastards out of their wheelchairs

Malingering old farts with their braces and canes. Get them out of those nursing homes and put them in the mines and fields to increase production. Lazy aged infirm farts sucking on the tit of society with the excuse they can't hack it anymore. And don't forget those children either. Tired of them clogging up the schools, put the little farts to work.

[MarcA]

62. Some people have a personal tragedy and it inspires

them to help other people like themselves and to do good for
humanity. Then there are those like cawthorn and abbott
who become mean, resentful and envious of others.

[jmowreader]

64. I have a better resolution

WHEREAS the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States clearly prohibits all persons who have engaged in insurrection from holding elective office, and

WHEREAS Madison Cawthorn, Republican of North Carolina, couldn’t even wait a week after taking office before he engaged in insurrection against the United States, and

WHEREAS the Fourteenth Amendment gives a remedy to this disability that could in no way apply to Madison Cawthorn because no one here likes him,

Now, therefore, be it resolved:

1. Madison Cawthorn is hereby expelled from the United States House of Representatives.

2. Madison Cawthorn shall refund to the United States Treasury all monies provided to him between the official start of the insurrection, which shall be defined as the time the first insurrectionist walked onto the Capitol Grounds, and the time he was formally expelled from Congress.

3. The records of the House of Representatives shall be amended to indicate the seat of the First Congressional District of North Carolina has been vacant since January 3, 2001.

4. Madison Cawthorn shall be barred from entering any land in a 100-mile radius of Washington, D.C., and any federal property with the exception of United States Courthouses.

5. Madison Cawthorn shall be referred to the Office of the Attorney General for prosecution for sedition.

6. In the event Madison Cawthorn is convicted of sedition, the Office of the Attorney General is directed to enter into a contract with the Republic of Turkey to house him in a high security prison for the duration of his natural life.