Mike Pence said on Fox News this week that he wants to END Social Security and then Republicans will come up with a better program. So Pence wants seniors to have faith that Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos and Matt Gaetz will draft a better program than Social Security.
@DeanObeidallah Can we just wait for the Republicans to propose their better healthcare plan first ?
@DeanObeidallah they want to make that final big plunder and give the spoils to themselves and people they deem ‘worthy’. I am five years away from retirement and I am not going to beg to a church to live.
@LakesideLady @DeanObeidallah
Same here. I'm about 8 years away if I wait till I'm 70.
@DeanObeidallah @sherrig312 Meanwhle the solution to funding Social Security in perpetuity is to lift the SSDI taxable income cap. The current capping system means the least rich of us pay the highest percentage of our wages into Social Security. It’s madness. What is it about our political system that so fears taxing the ultra-rich? (🤨politicians are bought by them).
@LindaVT @DeanObeidallah @sherrig312 right. It’s $160k for 2023. It should be at least double that, or uncapped entirely like the Medicare rate.
@DeanObeidallah oh this is just like that healthcare plan that was gonna replace Obamacare that they all were working on.
@DeanObeidallah People like Pence are why we have to put directions on Shampoo bottles.
@GeoffWilbourn @DeanObeidallah ...or to write the word "HOT" on a McDonald's coffee cup.
#NoSense
@NYTupelo7 @DeanObeidallah I would rather see him spill hot coffee on his nuts … he probably uses Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo.
@GeoffWilbourn @DeanObeidallah
Why do you think he uses Johnson & Johnson shampoo down "there"...to make his "Johnson" grow? You know, like other products claim to make your hair grow?
@DeanObeidallah - yeah, I’d like to see their replacement for the ACA first. Waiting…waiting…waiting…waiting…waiting…

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And his answer to the obvious followup question, "What would a better program look like?"

Oh, question not asked?

That's why Faux News is not a news organization.

#GOPLies
#FoxNewsComplicit

@DeanObeidallah Pence has a walnut sized brain.
@DeanObeidallah Threaten to kill the program so they can cut it. Dems should expand the program by raising the tax limit, lower the retirement age, and pay a living wage to begin with. So there.
@DeanObeidallah Translation: Tear it down, and put it back up in the private sector, where we all lose out. If they could commercialize air and gravity, they would.
@dancinyogi @DeanObeidallah I'm sure Elon is looking for a way to do that.
@DeanObeidallah feeling a wave of hysteria as I read this. I thought the crazies were outraged when Biden said GOP wants to get rid of Social Security yet that talking point is alive and well.
@DeanObeidallah maybe before the gop ends something they should actually build a replacement and try it out? This will never work since the idea of something new cannot compete with something people depend on everyday.
@DeanObeidallah maybe come up with something before fucking over everyone. Reality is they have no plan other than plundering us all.
@DeanObeidallah Kinda like how they wanted to end Obamacare, and THEN come up with a replacement. (PS Trump’s healthcare plan will be released in two weeks.)

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So, not only is he an idiot, but he thinks everyone else is too?

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Kind of reminds me of the trump Republicans plan to replace ACA (because it was a black man's plan) with a much better one.....in 14 days. Still waiting....

@DeanObeidallah and will any older Republican voters hear that and think "hmmm...wait a minute!"

Sadly, probably not.

@DeanObeidallah Conservative social programs are always something like "We'll let you set up a tax free fund to save for X" Which of course is just another tax dodge for rich people.
@DeanObeidallah Let the old folks plow the fields! That's the plan.
@DeanObeidallah what? You don't think they belong is the same class as FDR?

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I remember this guy saying the same thing before he plowed through a group of demonstrators on his very expensive motorcycle.

https://youtu.be/XMhi5GJ0vfI

Motorcyclist Plows Through Healthcare Protest In San Francisco

YouTube
@DeanObeidallah That's an insult to the greatest cabinet member in American history, Frances Perkins
@DeanObeidallah Didn’t we hear this same thing about healthcare?
@DeanObeidallah LOL…. Gotta be kidding….. Mr Pence did you learn nothing from your experience as a Vice President……
@DeanObeidallah @donmelton lol like Trump’s future health care plan!
@DeanObeidallah I'm sure they'll get right on that after Trump's healthcare plan kicks in. 🙄
#RepublicansLieAndLieAndLie
@DeanObeidallah And the response is that the American people want broadly to END the GOP and then remaining Conservatives may have time to propose a better set of politicians that actually include ethics and policies that benefit Americans.
@DeanObeidallah how about these assholes show us the new plan first...

@DeanObeidallah Yeah, one where the money goes right into their own pocketbooks.
Must be nice to have such great power as a THIEF a FRAUD.

Now all they have to do is DUMB DOWN EVERYONE in America to get all Americans on board their IDIOT TRAIN.

@DeanObeidallah I love how all the Republicans are now saying, “We never intended to cut Social Security, how dare you say that!”

And then here comes their former vice president saying he doesn’t just want to cut it, he wants to END IT.

They’re like a malevolent version of the Keystone Kops.

@DeanObeidallah It's not simply a matter for seniors, but all who have paid into the system to date. What happens to those funds?

Social Security is NOT an entitlement.

@DeanObeidallah What is the definition of delusional? I'll take Idiots in Politics for $500, Alex.
@DeanObeidallah Well…those ARE the top three brains in the Republican Party. 🤷‍♀️
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Yes, just like Trump’s long-promised infrastructure plans, it’s just 2 weeks away.
@DeanObeidallah Yeah, they’ll “come up with a better program” just like they did with Obamacare, right?
The only positive to the 2024 elections will be watching Republicans trying to devour each other.
@DeanObeidallah yeah right... Like they did with Obamacare...
@DeanObeidallah this is always the dumbest argument too because if they have a better idea then they can repeal the one in the same bill they pass the new great thing. Any time they want to do one step without the other people should realize they’re already lying
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We got the same empty line about the promise of "Trumpcare" once they could eliminate "Obamacare." It never would ever have materialized. They touch Social Security and Medicare, and they will be met with vengeance. I promise.

@DeanObeidallah First you come up with the new program. Then you come up with a transition plan. Once that has been executed, you shut down the old program.

I mean, if you are serious about creating a better program.

I would love that. Not what we are going to get.

@DeanObeidallah @Pineywoozle They always say “end first and then make a better…” why don’t they make a better plan now? Or 10, 20 years ago when they wanted to get rid of it? Why do they want to kill it first and then??? We’re still waiting on their better health plan…
@Catawu @DeanObeidallah They have no better plan. They just want to kill it and then say whoops we can’t fix it. Grannie will just have to eat cat food and die on the street after she loses the home she spent her life paying for, has to be mortgaged to pay her med bills.