Bloomberg: "There are ways to slowly decrease the benefits or raise the eligibility age for Soc Sec.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

Add co-pays to indigent Medicaid users? WTF?

I mean, gee, wouldn’t want poor people to have access.

Link to tweet

[CentralMass]

1. The old work until you die fix.

[pangaia]

2. Is this recent? Or old?

[Perseus]

18. By the looks of him it is old

[cherryinpa]

3. Jesus.h.Christ

Is there any Democratic policy that this guy actually supports?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

10. My momz asked the same thing... haha, great minds think alike!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

[denverbill]

20. Establishment Democratic policy or progressive policy?

He definitely supports low taxes on the rich and cutting government spending on social programs like most 'centrist' Democrats, but being a Trump golf-buddy billionaire and, until recently, a Republican, he wants to balance the tax cuts for the rich with benefit cuts for the poor and elderly. He strongly opposes Sanders and that's why he's running.

[customerserviceguy]

23. Sure there is

Now. Because it's being lapped up by people dazzled by big money.

[msongs]

4. bloomberg is way worse than bernie. neither one is some kind of savior either nt

[DanTex]

5. Another thing to notice is that at the start of the video, what he complains about

with the sequester is the defense cuts. The one area in the federal budget which is the most bloated is the one he wants to protect, and SS and Medicare, he wants to cut.

Yes, I'll vote for him against Trump, but come on! These are not Democratic values.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

11. THIS!! But peeps would gladly vote for Mike over Bernie in a heartbeart... go figure!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

[msongs]

14. lol your friend wants to spend a trillion bucks on MIC projects that benefit VT nt

[denverbill]

22. Source?

[Desert grandma]

19. Yes. True.

Many of us would vote for Mike over Bernie for the simple reason that we think Bernie will not win in a GE. His label as a "socialist" will follow him and I fear he will not do well with the majority of voters in the electoral states we need in order to defeat Trump. That does not mean that Mike would necessarily win those voters but it seems to me it would be a higher probability....especially with his advertising capability.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

21. I respect your opinon DG... but, you couldn't be more wrong. Bernie's got the best shot.

Best of luck though to your candidate... may the best one win!


Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

[apcalc]

6. There are ways. It's simple mathematics and the will of the legislative bodies to do it.

Hire a few actuaries. Politicians are stupid.

[BusyBeingBest]

7. This is very old, and not his current proposal.

https://www.fool.com/retirement/2020/02/17/5-ways-mike-bloomberg-plans-to-protect-seniors.aspx

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

12. Ohhhhh, okay... that's a relief!! NOT!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

[George II]

8. Sanders has suggested the same in the past.

[notinkansas]

13. I don't believe that is true.

I listened to 'Brunch with Bernie' for years on the Thom Hartmann show. I have never heard him say/propose anything remotely like that. He's always advocated for expanding Social Security.

[George II]

16. Here's an example:

https://apnews.com/31c432f20acba807a569c7004abaf473

Sanders’ Social Security ‘adjustments’ undercut Biden attack

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As a congressman in the 1990s, Bernie Sanders expressed an openness to making “adjustments” to the tax and benefit structure of Social Security. He also praised an overhaul of the social safety net program signed into law by President Ronald Reagan that reduced benefits and increased taxes on working families.

That took me about 10 seconds to find.

[lapucelle]

17. The video is carefully edited to omit the discussion of guns,

and the need to hold career politicians who vote against sane gun legislation accountable via the ballot box.

[onecaliberal]

9. He's a republican at heart. He wants trump out but he's not for liberal policy ideas.

[apcalc]

24. It disturbs me a lot that Bloomberg donated to Toomey

And Fitzpatrick , both R’s , in races we needed to win here in PA, as late as 2018.

NOPE! Not for me. I don’t trust him at all.

[notinkansas]

15. Maybe our tent is too big?

Even if this isn't his current position, it does not bode well for trust in a candidate.