THAT IS NOT something you want to run for President on ….
It WILL cost ya votes from people who will show up to vote…..
Trump seems more worried about the Stock Market…..
Donald Trump opened the door to “cutting” retirement spending programs like Social Security and Medicare in a CNBC interview, drawing swift pushback from President Biden.
Biden tweeted a short response: “Not on my watch.”
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Donald Trump was asked by CNBC on how he would handle entitlement spending — on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid — as president.
Said Trump: “So, first of all, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements. Tremendous bad management of entitlements. There’s tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do. So I don’t necessarily agree with the statement. I know that they’re going to end up weakening Social Security, because the country is weak.”
He continued: “I mean, take a look at outside of the stock market—we’re going through hell. People are going through hell. They have—I believe that number is 50 percent. They say 32 and 33 percent. I believe we have a cumulative inflation of over 50 percent. That means people are, you know, they have to make more than 50 percent more over a fairly short period of time to stay up. They’ve gotten routed. The middle class in our country has been routed. And the middle class largely built our country. And they’ve been treated very, very badly with policy.”
jamesb says
Update….
Donald Trump realizes he fucked up on talking about CUTTING Social Security and Medicare…
Former President Trump in a new interview sought to clarify comments from earlier in the week in which he said there are ways to go about “cutting” entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
“I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,” Trump told Breitbart News on Wednesday. “We’ll have to do it elsewhere. But we’re not going to do anything to hurt them.”….
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Democratic Socialist Dave says
Reminds me of the Tea Party protester whose sign read something like:
“Keep Uncle Sam’s hands off my Social Security !!”
jamesb says
Sorry DSD ..ur Up…..
Democratic Socialist Dave says
My comment did not go through for some reason…