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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTIME to call your Senators re: Mick Mulvaney (Psychopath) 202-224-3121

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TIME to call your Senators re: Mick Mulvaney (Psychopath) 202-224-3121 (Original Post)
CousinIT
Dec 2016
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)1. Do people who say this REALLY believe it?
OR-- are they just "paid' to say it?
One wonders...maybe...
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,485 posts)3. Oh, I think people like him really believe that stuff.
I've seen the "Social Security is a Ponzi scheme" said in many places, which only proves how many people both don't know what a Ponzi scheme really is, and have zero understanding of just how SS is funded.
Same with Medicare.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)2. Who is this guy and what's going on?
progressoid
(52,791 posts)4. He's the worst of the worst. Tea partier.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/us/politics/mick-mulvaney-office-management-budget-trump.html
Trump Picks Mick Mulvaney, South Carolina Congressman, as Budget Director
