Today's news says that Mitch McConnell (a Republican senator
from Kentucky and the U.S. Senate
majority leader) wants to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits. The
reason? To alleviate the deficit in the US
budget. And the reason for the deficit? Because Donald Trump's (and
Republicans') tax cut has benefited corporations and the ultra-wealthy but
reduced the government's income (i.e., worsened the budgetary deficit).
McConnell, not unreasonably, feels that the loss of revenue
due to the tax cut should be made up somewhere, somehow. But it should be clear
to anyone that cutting taxes on the very rich and corporations, if that loss of
revenue has to be made up by cutting programs like Medicare and Social
Security, is favoring the rich at the expense of the elderly for whom Social
Security may be a chief, or only, source of income, and who also greatly
benefit from Medicare.
The moral is this: If you are a recipient of Social Security
and/or Medicare--or even if you are not but are simply someone other than a
member of the "One Percent" (that is, the very richest in our society)--you
should not be voting Republican, because you are not voting in accordance with
your own interests.
The Republicans have long been the party of and for the
rich. For people who have not seen that, it should be more obvious now.
If you're one of the One Percent, I'm actually going to tell you that you should vote Republican; it's in your interests. If you're not, remember that the Republican philosophy is help the rich and screw the poor. And, they have huge amounts of money with which to influence elections. So--support the other side.
If you're one of the One Percent, I'm actually going to tell you that you should vote Republican; it's in your interests. If you're not, remember that the Republican philosophy is help the rich and screw the poor. And, they have huge amounts of money with which to influence elections. So--support the other side.
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