by Dana Henricks, Florence
Well, it’s clear now: A vote for a Republican is a vote to cut Social Security and Medicare. How do we know this? Because a Republican just said the quiet part out loud.
During Republicans’ second (failed) attempt to install rightwing extremist Jim Jordan as the next House Speaker, Representative Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma) asked his fellow Republicans to remember that Jim Jordan has shown great “courage’’ in his battle “to get at the real drivers of debt, and we all know what they are. We all know it’s Social Security, we all know it’s Medicare.”
Sorry, Tom Cole, Jim Jordan, Ryan Zinke, and Matt Rosendale, but Social Security and Medicare are both programs that we, the honest, hardworking taxpayers of this country paid for and to which we are, indeed, entitled.
You know what wasn’t paid for? Trump’s so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. This was a $1.9 TRILLION DOLLAR tax cut that slashed the corporate tax rate, much to the delight of rich corporations and the wealthiest Americans.
Surprise, surprise, Trump’s gift to his billionaire buddies put our country further in debt—by a lot. Oh, my! Whatever shall we do? Ask the Republicans in Congress. Should we get rid of Trump’s tax breaks for the wealthy? No way, we can’t do that! Let’s slash Social Security and Medicare instead. Great idea!
Wake up, voters! Republican politicians are in business for themselves and for their wealthy donors only. This includes Ryan Zinke and Matt Rosendale, both of whom voted for insurrectionist Jim Jordan to be Speaker. I guess they admire Jordan’s “courage” in his battle to steal from the middle class and the poor and give to the rich, too.
Helen Sabin says
Clark, you and Dana need to learn to read, think, debate, and discuss your thinking as it is terribly one sided. First, your comment, Clark, about not getting to vote? why not? Are you crippled? didn’t register to vote? or what?
Dana conveniently forgets that it is JOE BIDEN DEMOCRAT who has let millions of ILLEGALS walk into the country unfettered and who get TAXPAYER FUNDS TO LIVE ISN’T IT? HOW ABOUT THEM ALSO GETING to vote if they check the little box on the DMV voter registration form that states, “I am an American citizen.” They must be allowed to vote even while their citizenship status is still being adjudicated. Representative Bedey raised this issue this year and tried to do something about it. What do DEMS/Liberals/progressives/do? yell and scream about voting being so hard to do.
Isn’t it interesting that years ago when you had to register 30 days ahead of time, present an ID to register and vote, and had to go to precinct and pick up a paper ballot that was then hand counted that we didn’t have so many complain about fraudulent elections like the DEMS and HILLARY CLINTON did? Al Gore did? Trump did? JUST YESTERDAY IN THE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTIONS, MACHINES WERE FOUND THAT WERE FLIPPPING VOTES!
How about this – to put medicare and social security back into being funded PROPERLY, congress stop taking from it to pay for illegals to come here and live? how about congress stop taking money from medicare to have paid for Obamacare that didn’t live up to its hype by Obama?
AND THIS NOVEL IDEA: How about electing congress people that work for US not themselves and STOP SPENDING? If you do care about this country, go to CONVENTION OF STATES.COM AND SIGN THE PETITION TO PUT TERM LIMITS ON CONGRESS, MAKE CONGRESS BALANCE THE BUDGET, AND REDUCE THE ABUSE BY JOE BIDEN AND the FEDS ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
LE’TS TAKE BACK THIS COUNTRY and start running it the way it should be run – no EARMARKS for cronies thus no more paybacks in our money to the congress pocket books. . No 5000 word bills! HEY, let’s slip a term limits provision for SCOTUS and CONGRESS into it – they would vote for it on both sides. Now that is something we all could agree on. Are you two up for that?
Gomez says
“JUST YESTERDAY IN THE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTIONS, MACHINES WERE FOUND THAT WERE FLIPPPING VOTES!”
Helen. Why do you continually fall for these baseless election conspiracy theories? You are either desperate or gullible. Republicans lose elections because people don’t like being conned by two bit phonies that are more concerned with what women do with their bodies than they are actually governing.
CLAIM: Democrats cheated in Pennsylvania elections with voting machines that were rigged to flip votes. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Social media users are misrepresenting an issue with machines in one county where there is no evidence of fraud, according to an election integrity expert.
hsabn says
How do YOU know they are baseless? Hmm? You haven’t been involved in any verification of these machines so YOU report what you read and so do I. So try these on for size GOMEZ and then go back to watching CNN….
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-election-voting-machines-votes-
flipping-1aede0966e0c418b4efbbb36b513acef
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2023/11/07/pennsylvania-voting-machine-error-judge/stories/202311070112
Gomez says
Helen. You should actually read the articles in the links before you post them as “evidence “. From the AP article;
“CLAIM: Democrats cheated in Pennsylvania elections with voting machines that were rigged to flip votes. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Social media users are misrepresenting an issue with machines in one county where there is no evidence of fraud, according to an election integrity expert.”
Linda Schmitt says
Clark,
Correcting the record ….. Democrats are approximately one third of the voting public in this county. Over 10,000 Democrats. And, I can say with pride, we’re growing every day. The Ravalli County Democrats are active, engaged and united, focused on matters that benefit working families. Unlike some others. Check out our website, ravdems.com.
Linda Schmitt
Chair
Ravalli County Democrats
Clark P Lee says
I think your list is a tad short. Sadly, in this county, if you don’t vote republican, you don’t get to vote. But that’s what happens when you leave the back gate open.