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Bernie Sanders To Stay In Top Senate Post To Protect Social Security And Medicare

Bernie Sanders To Stay In Top Senate Post To Protect Social Security And Medicare

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that he will be staying as the ranking member on the Health Education Labor and…

12 hours ago

Trump’s Plan Would Cut Social Security Benefits By 33%

A new study by the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget found that Donald Trump's plans for Social Security…

1 month ago

Republican Budget Plan Would Throw Millions Off Social Security

The House Republican budget plan would throw millions of Americans off Social Security while also slashing funding for food for…

2 years ago

Mitch McConnell Is Worried That Rick Scott Could Cost Republicans The 2024 Election

Mitch McConnell is trying to defuse Rick Scott's cut Social Security timebomb because he thinks it will cost the GOP…

2 years ago

Mike Pence Says He Wants To Replace The New Deal With A Better Deal And Privatize Social Security

Mike Pence's tiny chance of ever being elected president took another hit as he announced that he wants to privatize…

2 years ago

Senate Republican Admits They Are Coming For Social Security

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) admitted that Republicans only want to fund Social Security year to year which would open the…

2 years ago

Republicans In Disarray As Mitch McConnell Knifes Rick Scott

The bad blood between Mitch McConnell and Rick Scott erupted after McConnell said that Scott might not be able to…

2 years ago

Opinion: House Resolution Denouncing Socialism Distracts from GOP’s Real Authoritarian Agenda

When one starts to put two and two together, it starts to sound like this kind of “anti-socialist” ideology is…

2 years ago

Biden Immediately Tells Kevin McCarthy To Forget About Cutting Social Security And Medicare

Within minutes of Kevin McCarthy being elected Speaker of the House, President Biden made it clear that cutting Social Security…

2 years ago

Biden Torches Rick Scott In Florida By Using His Own Words Against Him

At an event in Florida, President Biden used Sen. Rick Scott's own words against him on Social Security and Medicare.

2 years ago

Biden Just Blew A Hole In The Entire Republican Midterm Argument

President Biden said that Democrats are the real party of fiscal responsibility while Republicans want blow up the deficit with…

2 years ago

Democrats Make History As For The First Time Social Security Checks Will Increase As Medicare Premiums Decrease

Democrats have delivered as for the first time in history Social Security checks will increase and Medicare premiums will decrease.

2 years ago

America’s Skyrocketing Debt: Real Problem, or Just A Republican Excuse to Oppose Everything?

Over the course of 2020, the federal government spent a massive amount trying to deal with the economic fallout of…

4 years ago

Biden: If Reelected, Trump Will “Wipe Out” Social Security by 2023

Joe Biden has warned that Donald Trump will "wipe out" Social Security if he wins a second term. The Democrat…

4 years ago

Biden Rebukes Trump for Threatening to Cut Social Security Funding

Democrat Joe Biden rebuked President Donald Trump's stance on Social Security funding just days after an ad in Florida accused…

4 years ago

Trump’s Budget Slashes Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security Disability

Trump's budget tries to pay for his tax cut for wealthy and corporations by slashing funding to Medicare, Medicaid, and…

5 years ago

Trump Promises To Cut Medicare And Social Security If He Wins A Second Term

Trump was asked at Davos if cutting entitlements will ever be on his plate, and he said they will be…

5 years ago

Trump’s False Campaign Promise Is the Real Story behind Tax Bombshell Report

The best chance of shifting America’s popular mind might be to focus on these campaign promises, keeping the conversation on…

6 years ago

Healthcare Lies May Cost the GOP Their Most Reliable Voters

During this election cycle political commentators have spent much time analyzing different voting groups. Will young voters and minorities turn…

6 years ago

Mitch McConnell Tries To Guilt Democrats Into Cutting Social Security And Medicare After Tax Cuts Backfire

Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tried to use the failed Republican tax cuts for the rich to guilt…

6 years ago

Paul Ryan Is Plotting An Evil $500 Billion Cut To Medicare, Medicaid, And Food Stamps

For their next act of malevolence after voting to take away health care from 24 million people, House Republicans are…

8 years ago

Opinion: Social Security Cuts Are On Trump’s Table Despite Campaign Pledge

"There are ways that we can not only allow the president to keep his promise, but to help him keep…

8 years ago

Democratic Senators Bust GOP Scheme To Secretly Confirm Social Security Privatizer

Democratic Senators Charles E. Schumer, Sherrod Brown, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Elizabeth Warren busting Senate Republicans for trying to secretly jam…

8 years ago

Lewandowski’s Lie Is Probably Preparation For Trump’s Greatest Con on Americans

Lewandowski repeated a Trump campaign lie and said: “Donald Trump won the election campaign by the largest majority since Ronald…

8 years ago

Stunning Hypocrisy – AARP Supports the Anti-Social Security Lobby ALEC

AARP should be more sensitive to its retired members who are vulnerable to ALEC-supported legislative efforts to eliminate Social Security.

8 years ago

Social Security Advocates Slam Donald Trump And The Republican Platform

The GOP has been attempting to privatize or cut Social Security since the beginning of time, whether it's through the…

8 years ago

Social Security Advocacy Group Slams Mike Pence As He Prepares To Be Trump’s VP Pick

The Democratic Party, on the other hand, just finished drafting a 2016 platform that vowed to expand Social Security.

8 years ago

Donald Trump Says Gutting Social Security Is Morally Right

"There’s no way a Republican is going to beat a Democrat when the Republican is saying, ‘We’re going to cut…

8 years ago

President Obama Gives Relief To Social Security Recipients Drowning in Student Debt

"It is appalling that Social Security support is being skimmed to feed into an out-of-control student debt machine."

9 years ago

Mitch McConnell Demands A Ransom That Obama Will Never Agree To In Debt Ceiling Fight

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is demanding Social Security and Medicare cuts in exchange for his vote to raise the…

9 years ago

Callous Kasich Tells Retiree Worried He Intends To Slash Social Security To “Get Over It”

Kasich dismissed criticism of his attitude as "silly" and said "difficult" changes are necessary in order to stabilize Social Security

9 years ago

House Freedom Caucus Document Explains Why the House Is Ungovernable

The recent revelation of a House Freedom Caucus 'questionnaire for prospective candidates for the Speakers' position clears up why Republicans…

9 years ago

Mitch McConnell Wants To Rob Pensions To Fund Highway Repairs

As long as the Kochs own Congress, Republicans will propose robbing the elderly to pay for projects that benefit the…

9 years ago

Jeb Bush’s Message To Working Americans Is Work Longer, Harder, and For Less

Jeb Bush wants to abolish the federal minimum wage, deny workers overtime pay, and raise the retirement age for social…

9 years ago

Republican Nightmare Bernie Sanders Exposes GOP Social Security Killing Dreams on National TV

Bernie Sanders is becoming a daily nightmare for Republicans. Sen. Sanders went on CNN today and cut through the Republican…

9 years ago

Bernie Sanders Beats Down Jeb Bush For Proposing Massive Cuts To Social Security

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took down Jeb Bush for proposing massive cuts to Social Security.

9 years ago

Study: Thirty-five Years of Conservative Policies Contributed to Violence In Baltimore

The problem with the Republicans' argument and lies, and there are many, is that statistics continue to prove that conservative…

10 years ago

Jeb Bush Boards The GOP Crazy Train By Saying Raise The Social Security Retirement Age

While Jeb Bush is often portrayed by the media as the "moderate" Republican candidate, there is nothing moderate about his…

10 years ago

Republicans’ Rule A Death Sentence For 9 Million Disabled Americans

Republicans have shifted their focus slightly away from just killing Americans' jobs to killing disabled Americans; nearly nine million disabled…

10 years ago

How Koch-Republican Governors Rob Pensions And Slash Wages

Since most Americans are not like the Kochs, Republicans came up with a devious plot to garner support for taking…

10 years ago

The First Act Of The Koch Congress Is A Vicious Attack On Social Security

On the evening before officially taking control of Congress, Republicans launched a Koch-Wall Street attack on Social Security as a…

10 years ago

The Koch Wall Street Crusade To Rob Pensions Is Underway

This is the class war billionaire Warren Buffet admitted his class was winning, and if any American doubted that the…

10 years ago

Mitch McConnell Resorts to Lying to Win, Claims ‘Nobody Wants to Privatize Social Security’

While casting himself as the "change" candidate after 30 years of the same old same old, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)…

10 years ago

Ted Cruz Says A Functioning Senate Subverts the Will of The People

In fact, there is very little that Ted Cruz even likes about this country, including the United States Constitution, that…

10 years ago

Joni Ernst Promises Americans a Very Painful Lesson If Elected

Ernst's treatise on government dependency revealed that not only is she a hard line devotee of tea party orthodoxy, she…

10 years ago

Mitch McConnell Puts His Foot In His Mouth By Calling The Founding Fathers Radicals

McConnell asserted that belief in, and support for, the government is "an act of true radicalism," something that makes the…

10 years ago

Mitch McConnell Tries To Undo Everything Obama Has Done With Government Shutdown Threat

If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell's own…

10 years ago

President Obama Has The Middle Class’ Back As He Drops Chained CPI From His Budget

The White House announced that the President will be releasing his budget very soon. One thing that will not be…

11 years ago

ALEC Spearheads Effort To Steal From Employees to Give to Corporations

There is a concerted effort to raid public sector employee pensions to give corporations and the wealthy tax breaks that…

11 years ago

Liberals Have Fought Alone Since the War on Poverty Ended in 1980

The snide satisfaction conservatives gloat in their declaration that the War on Poverty failed is apropos given how they sabotaged…

11 years ago

A Trickle Down Republican Assault Is Forcing Americans To Work Themselves to Death

Now that Republicans have most Americans working for poverty wages, they can turn their full attention to those nearing their…

11 years ago

When Boehner and Cantor Say What The American People Want They Mean ALEC and the Kochs

In Republican parlance, when they say "what the people want," they mean their wealthy benefactors the Koch brothers, ALEC, and…

11 years ago

The American People Rise Up and Demand an End to Government Favoritism of the Rich

After decades of declining incomes an overwhelming majority of Americans finally realize their government exists to favor the rich, and…

11 years ago

Koch Brothers Illegally Funnel Millions Into Campaign to Eliminate Pensions and Sick Pay

The Koch Brothers are are launching a nationwide campaign to eliminate public sector workers' wages, pensions, sick pay, workers' compensation.

11 years ago

Senator Elizabeth Warren And The New Economic Populism

Will Senator Elizabeth Warren's political economic populist movement change US economics and politics now and in the future?

11 years ago

Republicans Won’t Admit that Cutting Social Security Is Stealing From the American People

What Republicans, and some Democrats, refuse to tell the American people is that cutting Social Security is stealing from the…

11 years ago

Fiscal Scolds Demand ‘Reforms’ to Social Security and Medicare Based on a Myth

The fiscal scolds at Fix The Debt are again demanding 'reforms' to Social Security and Medicare. Their entire argument is…

11 years ago

IT’S TEOTWAWKI REDUX, NOT! Obamacare And The Exploitation of Technology Fear.

The right-wing uses the people's fear of new technology to try to stop "Obamacare". Many experts said that Y2K would…

11 years ago

Republicans Expect the Elderly, Poor and Unemployed to Pay Off Their Debt

For some reason, only Republicans remember that it was the poor, public sector workers, and retirees who created the country's…

11 years ago

No, Conservatives, People Aren’t Gaming the Disability Benefits System

Conservatives have been whining that people are getting disability benefits they don't deserve. As usual, they are completely wrong.

12 years ago

Behind the Chained CPI Outrage Is an Obama Budget That Is a Democratic Wish List

The President's budget proposals contain a great deal of Democrats' long-cherished wishes and few are paying any attention.

12 years ago

House Republicans Look to Divide and Conquer by Using Progressive Attacks Against Obama

House Republicans are trying to divide and conquer the left by adopting the progressive attacks against President Obama's budget as…

12 years ago

John Boehner Confesses That He Rejected Obama’s Budget Offer Without Reading It

Speaker John Boehner admitted that rejected Obama's budget proposals immediately, and revealed that he did not have time to read…

12 years ago

Republicans Use the Deficit As an Excuse to Cut Food and Health Care for Children

Republicans who are now worried sick about America's children's future, have already taken care to assure future generations will stay…

12 years ago

The Republican Class War Has Contributed Greatly To America’s Growing Inequality

The Republican class war has, for well over a decade, contributed greatly to income inequality that hastens America's rush to…

12 years ago

President Obama’s Strong Case Against the Corporate Push to Gut Social Security

In his Inaugural Address, the President assured the people he will fight to preserve their retirement investment, and he has…

12 years ago

Obama’s Jack Lew Nomination Is a Warning Shot to Republicans

Picking Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary was a way for Obama to arm himself against the upcoming battles with Republicans…

12 years ago

Paul Ryan Justifies Screwing Sandy Victims By Calling Flood Insurance Program Irresponsible

Paul Ryan justified his no vote for Sandy victims claiming that maintaining the existing flood insurance relief program was irresponsible.

12 years ago

A Cabal of CEOs Try to Bypass the Legislative Process and Impose Their Own Debt Reduction Plan

A cabal of CEOs who are upset about the fiscal cliff deal are proposing that corporate America bypass the legislative…

12 years ago

There Has to Be Room for Dissent Among Obama Supporters

Harsh attacks by liberals on liberals who disagreed with the President's Social Security proposal seem aimed at stifling democratic dissent

12 years ago

Sen Graham Exposes Republican Debt Lie by Attacking Social Security

Sen. Graham insisted that we must raise the age for Social Security in order to deal with the debt, but…

12 years ago

Eric Cantor’s letter spells out the continuing ALEC/Koch right-wing agenda

Eric Cantor has gotten his orders from Koch/ALEC headquarters, and there is no mistaking their intent; continue to make life…

12 years ago

Republicans Spread the Holiday Hate by Trying to Kill Medicare for Christmas

As a hateful attempt to cut the nation's deficit, and avoid the dreaded fiscal cliff, the GOP is going all…

12 years ago

Republicans Are More Willing to Cause Another Recession than Abandon the Rich

The tragedy is that Republicans are more than willing to see America suffer a deep recession than they are to…

12 years ago

Bernie Sanders Applauds Obama for Taking Social Security Off the Fiscal Cliff Table

After the White House took Social Security off the fiscal cliff negotiating table, Sen. Bernie Sanders applauded the move and…

12 years ago

The Time is Now for Obama to Educate in Order to End the GOP Assault on Social Security

There has never been a better time for President Obama to educate the people about Social Security and its non-effect…

12 years ago

Pelosi and Reid Have Obama’s Back: No Social Security Cuts and Taxes Must be Raised on the Rich

Both Democratic leaders in the Senate have Obama's back on the fiscal cliff. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are emphatic…

12 years ago

Liberals Need to Avoid Being Their Own Worst Enemy

Some liberals have the mind-boggling view there is no difference between Romney & Obama, and are even planning not to…

12 years ago

Republicans Outraged With Romney Because He Gave Away Their Dirty Secret

Romney's comments revealed his true feelings about Americans who are struggling, but he articulated in stark terms the entire Republican…

12 years ago

Paul Ryan Talks like a Maker, but Lives Like a Taker

The inconsistencies between Paul Ryan's life and his ideals about self-reliance are impossible to overlook.

12 years ago

The Dreams of Romney-Ryan Are Dangerous to Nearly Everyone

This ticket will absolutely depend on low-information voters enamored with right wing media. In point of fact, the vast majority…

12 years ago

Republicans Are Trying to Destroy the Most Successful Government Program in History

The Republicans and their accomplices on Wall Street are trying kill Social Security by getting your payroll taxes instead of…

13 years ago

Anti-Big Government GOP Passes the Tab For Nuclear Disasters On To Taxpayers

The GOP hates big government, but they love the Price-Anderson Act which is an insurance program that allows nuclear power…

13 years ago

Taking the Low Road: The GOP’s Demonization of Government Benefits

In order to eliminate Social Security and Medicare, Republicans use entitlement society language to stigmatize using government benefits.

13 years ago

Bernie Sanders Cracks The Coded Threat To Entitlements In Obama’s State Of The Union

Bernie Sanders gave President Obama good marks for his State Of The Union address, but he also warned about coded…

13 years ago

Obama Rebuts The GOP’s Social Security Privatization Fantasies

It's the 75 anniversary of Social Security and so, naturally, Republican leaders and candidates want to take it away from…

14 years ago