UPDATED: Lee, Scott & Johnson on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid 🎥

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Edited: Feb 20, 2023

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Rescue AmericaRick Scott’s & Mike Lee’s Libertarian “Rescue America” plan is a dusted off KOCH plan to end Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare; end public education and abortions; tax the middle class & poor; defund the IRS for wealthy tax cheats. It is their agenda...their only agenda...and they are denying that it is. Here they are in their own words.

Mike Lee

Rick Scott

Ron Johnson

H/T HOS

When you have only bad plans...Rescue America doesn't rescue anything or anyone other than the rich from paying their fair share. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH The American Rescue Plan. (Biden's economic stimulus bill passed 2021) Lauren B00Bert -on the Budget Committee- will tell you more about that... in her own way.

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Krissie Kochanski

Feb 23, 2023

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@VACCINATE or ICU later 🐊alligator This is OT for this post but I didn’t know if you had seen my reply to your comment on the picture that I posted. I’m sorry if the picture caused you offence and I will delete it if you want me to. My avatar name is obviously a pseudonym but I am a woman. I am not from England, I am from Ireland (the part that is still occupied, to be specific.) I now live in Scotland, which is very similar to Ireland, so I feel at home here. I do know some of what is going on over there. I get most of my info from SAV and from some podcasters that people have shared on this site. I’m very interested in US politics and culture because it really does affect the rest of the world. I like seeing the type of people these antivaxxers and RWNJs are and have realised that we have the same ‘type’ of people over here. I read a lot of your posts because you always seem to give good information. I don’t always get everything right. Again, sorry.

VACCINATE or ICU later 🐊Alligator

Feb 24, 2023

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There is no way to know because there are so many different types and they seem to work in tandem with other trolls. They do eventually show themselves, which is why I keep them in a SAV file under categories... to remind them I am onto them. Having been a mod on a couple of blog sites back when trolls were just starting to be a pain, I have insight but no one can truly moderate this site as there are no rules... and people like that here (which is why I would never moderate on such a site)

Vaxxlady tried but mostly just got rid of the worst spammers. (Which was still a huge job for one person) She would tag warn people who were trolling/pissing her off with "on the verge." It wasn't perfect, but she did a good job for not having proper tools to do it.

Vaxxman is still here a little, but he refuses to clean up the messes trolls make even when I report them. In the end it is his site and all I can do is report, just like you.

(PS: No one wants me as a mod and I absolutely do not want to be one either.)

Krissie Kochanski

Feb 25, 2023

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I didn’t know that’s what the “on the verge“ tag meant, I thought it was just another badge.

They do eventually show themselves, which is why I keep them in a SAV file under categories... to remind them I am onto them.

Is this file somewhere on SAV or is it your own file somewhere else?

Krissie Kochanski

Feb 28, 2023

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I just got what you mean, I’m a doh head

cath

Feb 21, 2023

I happened to read this a couple of days ago -

https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/immigrant-native-consumption-means-tested-welfare-entitlement-benefits-2020#results

exerpt -

"Table 1 shows the average per capita immigrant welfare cost by program and age. Immigrant age is highly correlated with per capita welfare cost. Individual elderly immigrants aged 65 or older consume about 12.8 times more welfare benefits than immigrants aged 18–64 and about 16.8 times more welfare benefits than immigrant children aged 0–17. Therefore, reducing the welfare consumption of elderly immigrants aged 65 or older will yield the largest per capita taxpayer savings. Table 2 shows the same numbers for native‐born Americans by age, where a similar but less severe pattern emerges."

So, after (for some) a lifetime of underpaid labour, screw them again, when they most need support. Because they are the least able to resist.

Repuqs really are the scum of the earth, and stupid, because one day, the shit's going to hit the fan. And when it does, it's likely their personal wealth won't help them

VACCINATE or ICU later 🐊Alligator

Feb 21, 2023

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And when it does, it's likely their personal wealth won't help them

Which is why they are all buying farms and land in the interior of the USA while actually living in the waterfront properties. That way they can deny climate change, live on the hog and still be able to flee their folly. No doubt the land is being cared for/farmed by the immigrants they complain about and screw at every opportunity.

cath

Feb 24, 2023

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You're quite right, "Armaggedonism" is fuelling increased greed, and the wealthy are planning for the "end times".

But given sufficient break-down of society, I don't think they will be immune from harm.

Oh well, schadenfreude is all I have left!

VACCINATE or ICU later 🐊Alligator

Feb 24, 2023

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I (somewhat) feel sorry for Americans because they seem to either be willfully blind or hopeful that the GQP are not going to screw America in the long run. But they will. Their hatred of Putin that is now a love affair is one sign. Calling the insurrection a tourist visit is another. And the call for CIVIL WAR was the cry of many at the insurrection and still is resounding.

Accepting Empty Greene and her ilk and having them be defacto leaders and on important committees should scare all Republicans as it is emboldening the worst of the worst. Not sanctioning her for speaking about secession is unbelievable.

Nikki Haley is running for president. In 2010, she defended states' rights to secede from the United States “Do you believe the states of the United States have the right to secede from the Union?” Haley: “I think that they do. I mean, the Constitution says that.” https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1625634574238711809?s=20

Peter Theil bought JD Vance a seat for only $10 million ... and it sure as hell not for the betterment of Ohio... It is to keep the taxcuts, keep the ill-gained billions from tax loopholes that were meant for pensioners ... but also to protect his interests and real estate. https://mobile.twitter.com/doctorow/status/1408783806924951556 and here https://t.co/yJzlmoVBJe

And by protecting their real estate and money, I also mean farm subsidies and more taxcuts, buying to rent and thus destabilizing home ownership market, cutting regulations so they make more money, owning farmland and farms so they will not only not starve themselves but have control over the food people need... now and in the future.

tRUMP owned the head of IRS who was just replaced the end on 2022... https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/irs-nominee-chuck-rettig-trump-hotel-659313 #SecretIRSFiles https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1468553260625801217.html

These are just a few examples. Oh and the poorest states who blindly vote GQP and MAGA and have the largest fake militias also have military academies, equipment, military bases/national guard with many personal, installations with missile silos, etc etc etc.

I barely scraped the surface. Scrapping medicare and SS makes for a lot of instantly poor people on the streets. They may have tabled it for now, but it is always looming. The GQP need for control and power should never be underestimated...

VACCINATE or ICU later 🐊Alligator

Feb 20, 2023

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UPDATE #2

VACCINATE or ICU later 🐊Alligator

Feb 12, 2023

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UPDATE #1

When asked if he agrees with Rick Scott's plan, Sen. Mike Rounds says that social security & Medicare should be funded on a yearly basis. He also likens it to defense spending which is taxpayer funded. He also says it should be "managed," What does he mean by that? Is not SS already funded by those who pay into it, and managed by the Government? Who does he want managing it. The private sector who lobby him perhaps? I am just a dumb Canadian, but I would not be willing to take this man at his word... that the GQP want to "make it better."

“We’re never going to not fund defense. But at the same time we — every single year, we look at how we make it better,” Rounds said. “And I think it’s about time we start talking about Social Security and making it better.”

Rick Scott: When caught in a lie, double down. When further caught in lies, invoke Jake Tapper over and over and ...

“Let’s remember, just a few months ago all Democrats voted and Joe Biden signed a bill to cut $280 billion out of Medicare,” says Rick Scott

Kaitlan Collins does a really good job of reminding the lying scumbag that he has tried that lie before... when referencing to the Inflation Reduction Act to negotiate lower drug prices, which would actually save Medicare nearly $300b. https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/02/09/sen-rick-scott-biden-social-security-medicare-cnntm-intvu-vpx.cnn

Rick Scott would never dupe you!

And not to leave out Lyndsey Graham, who believes lower income taxpayers owe it to the rich to fund their GQP taxcuts with cuts to Medicare and Social Security...