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Article: Kamala Harris may be the first Democratic presidential nominee to win seniors since Al Gore

Kamala Harris may be the first Democratic presidential nominee to win seniors since Al Gore

We’ve heard a lot about the groups of voters that Kamala Harris seems to be struggling with – or at least not doing as well as Joe Biden did

That Republicans are OPENLY planning to cut Social Security and Medicare is certainly a part of it.

Seniors vote! They've had a lifetime to learn that it really matters.

#seniors are for harris #save social security #save medicare #save democracy

If I disappear completely in coming months, know that it's because Trump and Musk have succeeded in destroying my only means of income (I'm Disabled), and I will no longer be able to afford not only life-necessary medical care (I'm already there, since they stopped the grant funding that covered the medical research paying for my treatments), but I'll likely also no longer have a home, food, or other life-necessary things, to say nothing of things like internet access or a phone (even my measly $20/month plan will be a luxury I won't be able to manage).

I won't be alone. Over 70 million more Americans will be without the basic income necessary to meet the most basic level of life (food, shelter, medical care), and all of them will be elderly, disabled, or both -- NONE able to get or maintain a job capable of sustaining their lives.

Anyway, I just wanted you to know what's happened if I suddenly disappear and you don't hear from me again. I'll likely be dead in a ditch somewhere (and I only WISH that was being melodramatic).

Let's hope 🙄 Congress actually grows a spine and conscience before all of this happens.

#us politics #congress do your job #impeach trump #save social security

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THEY WANT TO GET RID OF SOCIAL SECURITY!!

Don’t let the shenanigans of attention whores like margorie distract from the fact they want to take social security away!

YOU GOT SOME OLD FAMILY MEMBERS WHO ARE TRUMP SUPPORTERS? MAKE SURE YOU TELL THEM HE WANTS TO TAKE AWAY THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY!!! AND TRUMP WILL IF HES ELECTED PRESIDENT!

#save social security #vote for democrats #fuck republicans #fuck conservatives #fuck mike johnson

Project 2025's economic plan is essentially let billionaires do whatever the hell they want more than ever before with more tax breaks, privatizing/stripping away Medicare, social security, & the VA, deporting 10 million people, many of whom have lived here since they were children, turning 40 hour work weeks into 160 hour work months & allowing companies to get away with not paying overtime, etc. i would count what they want to do with LGBTQIA+ people is also part of their economic plan because sending them to concentration camps or simply executing them for existing as they are would probably cost tax payer dollars.

#project 2025 #stop project 2025 #mass deportations #the likes of which we've never seen before #lgbtqia #us politics #american politics #conservative economic plan #their plan is to make this country crumble #they don't want to save anything #social security #save social security #medicare #save medicare #veteran affairs #the va needs to be improved not stripped away #a large percentage of homeless people are veterans

Heads UP - prospective death of social security - are republicans tilting at windmills?

Salon: Donald Trump is coming for your Social Security: How the GOP plans a bait-and-switch to cut taxes — and pensions - Republicans have not given up on their dream to kill the social safety net while cutting taxes

The Republicans will never give up on trying the destroy the safety net. It’s one of their fundamental organizing principles along with tax cuts. Other issues may come and go but these two are perennial. And according to the AP the administration has decided to scrap Trump’s previously announced tax plan in favor of a new “reform” agenda that will accomplish both the dismantling of the Social Security guarantee and their cherished tax cuts for the wealthy.

They are also, unsurprisingly, being dishonest about their intentions. Social Security expert Nancy Altman described it as a Trojan Horse but considering Trump’s ostentatious promises to protect the program, perhaps it’s better described as a garden variety bait and switch. Simply put, they are planning to completely abandon Social Security’s dedicated funding stream from the FICA payroll deduction and pay for the program with general revenues. They will sell this as a tax cut for workers, which is what it will look like on the paycheck. But Trump’s rumored innovation is to replace the money with a form of VAT, which means that average workers, who spend most of their money on consumer goods, will still pay they will just lose their retirement guarantee. Rich people will get their tax cuts and don’t need Social Security anyway. It’s a GOP win-win.

What this means is that Social Security will become part of the normal budget process, subject to the whim of each congress as they appropriate money for wars and pet projects and their favorite form of fear-mongering nonsense, “deficit reduction.” It is inevitable that the basic contract all citizens have with their government — that they will commit a portion of their wages to the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) account and will be guaranteed a pension 40 years from now — will be declared null and void. That contract has paid out to several generations since its inception in the 1930s, no thanks to the Republicans who have consistently tried to find ways to dismantle it.

Although the assaults on the safety net programs have been relentless, at each turn Americans have fought back, the most recent example being the attempt by President George W. Bush to privatize the system by diverting the funds to Wall Street. That plan was thwarted by activism and organization and the epic stock market crash of 2007 took it off the table for the foreseeable future.

Historian Arthur Schlesinger has written about the final passage of Social Security:

“The federal government was at last charged with the obligation to provide its citizens a measure of protection from the hazards and vicissitudes of life. One hundred and ten years earlier, John Quincy Adams had declared that ‘the great object of the institution of civil, government’ was ‘the progressive improvement of the condition of the governed.’ With the Social Security Act, the constitutional dedication of federal power to the general welfare began a new phase of national history.”

It’s the GOP’s 75-year experience with Social Security and 40-year history with Medicare that made them lose their minds over the Affordable Care Act. They know very well that social insurance benefits are nearly impossible to take away once they are enacted. People want them and will pay for them. We just watched them meet that problem head on once again. And once again they were pushed back by citizens who believe they have a right to basic old age security and health care like every other industrialized nation on the planet.

But it looks like these Republicans, under the leadership of the fake populist and totally incompetent Donald Trump, may be stupid enough to take on Social Security again. They just love to tilt at this windmill and they get caught in the blades every time.

#social security #save social security