Former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich explains the longtime Republican plan to slash Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Trump’s Plan to Rip Away Your Benefits

‘Lie after lie’: Senator slams Musk for claims about Social Security benefits

Elon Musk is defending DOGE’s cuts to the Social Security Administration. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) joins Ana Cabrera to share his thoughts on Musk’s “chainsaw” approach to spending cuts and the potential impact it will have on Americans.

Elon Musk said we have to eliminate Social Security and Medicare

Elon Musk on Monday in an interview with Fox Business Network’s Larry Kudlow referred to federal spending on programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as areas that need to be eliminated. The Morning Joe panel discusses Musk’s eyeing entitlement programs and saying Democrats use such programs to attract illegal immigrants and turn them into voters.

Cuts ‘absolutely going to crater’ Social Security, says former commissioner

Elon Musk is setting his sights on the Social Security Administration, which is expected to cut 7,000 jobs. Martin O’Malley, the former Social Security Commissioner under President Biden, joins The 11th Hour to discuss how the changes could impact Americans.

The President is a Profligate Liar:” Whitehouse Blasts Trump and Musk’s Attacks on Social Security

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) questions Frank Bisignano, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, in a Senate Finance Committee hearing.

Dec 18, 2024 Republican Rep. Greg Lopez ADMITS “there will be some cuts” to Social Security and Medicare after the first meeting of the DOGE Caucus

Democrat Shreds Elon Musk’s Lies on Social Security

When President Biden called Republicans out for wanting to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Senator Lee and Republicans reacted by acting shocked and outraged. The above video exposes Senator Lee saying he wants to cut these programs, proving what hypocrites and liars Republicans are.

Republicans’ plan to cut 800 Billion from Medicaid and Food Stamps

Trump adviser Stephen Moore Says the AARP is one of the Most Evil Organization in America

Trump adviser Stephen Moore stated at the 2024 CPAC: “The AARP is one of the most evil organizations in America. They have got to go”. Reminder that Trump introduced a budget to cut Social Security and Medicare every single year he was in office.

Per an article at theguardian.com, “Stephen Moore, who withdrew from Fed consideration after sexist remarks were uncovered, is also the co-author of the Radical Project 2025 effort” to turn the Presidency into a Dictatorship if Trump is elected in 2024

“Project 2025 is all about forcing a far-right agenda on to everyday Americans,” said Tony Carrk, the executive director of the progressive watchdog Accountable.US, which produced an extensive report on Moore’s views and positions. “So it’s no wonder they tapped a notorious social security opponent like Stephen Moore to help write their policy schemes.”

Moore, Carrk said, had “dedicated his career to slashing social security benefits and taxes for billionaires”. Like other welfare programmes such as Medicare, social security is a longstanding target of the US right but also something of a third rail for politicians of either party, given public support.

Joe Biden has said he “will not cut a single social security or Medicare benefit”.

Ronald Reagan telling the Truth about Social Security Versus Mitch McConnell LYING

Republicans are Debt Ceiling Hypocrites who spend more & raise the debt when a REPUBLICAN is President then demand cuts in spending when a Democrat is President

Republicans Creating Commission To Figure Out How To Cut Social Security And Medicare

Social Security and Medicare are still on the chopping block with Republicans, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced this week that a new “budget commission” being created will look at potentially cutting the programs. This is political self-destruction for Republicans, but millions of people may end up suffering before political retribution could be dealt at the ballot box. Jun 4, 2023

Republicans Release Plan to GUT Social Security

Jun 15, 2023 A panel of Republican lawmakers have just released their newest plan to strip you of your social security and Medicare benefits.

Republican Senator: Social Security Is UNFAIR To The Rich!

Republican Senator Ron Johnson seems to think his constituents don’t understand the concept of social security, calling it a “nanny state” program at the Senate Budget Committee hearing called “Protecting Social Security for All: Making the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share.”

REPUBLICAN Senator Ron Johnson caught Protecting the RICH

VIDEO PROOF: Republicans Want to Cut Social Security

Republicans has been wanting to cut Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare for YEARS. In the above video Republican Senator Mike Lee stated: “It will be my objective to phase out Social Security, to pull it up from the roots and get rid of it”.  Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott is called out by FOX NEWS John Roberts for wanting to Tax the Poor plus eliminate Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Republicans like Johnson make false claims of Social Security counting towards the national debt.

Mike Pence: It’s Time to CUT Social Security

Mike Pence went on TV and said the quiet part out loud when he talked about the Republican’s plan to privatize social security.

The GOP is Sacrificing Americans so Billionaires Can Profit Even More

Rightwing billionaires (who pay an average income tax of 3.4 percent) think the world is made up of “makers” and “takers.” 45,000 Americans die every year because they lack health insurance, including those who can’t access Medicaid.

Nikki Haley says she’s fine with “reforming entitlements” because it’s what her billionaire friends want.

‘Damaging cuts’ to Medicare and Social Security are looking more likely with McCarthy as House speaker. Here’s what it will mean for retirees.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made concessions to far-right GOP members to win his seat, which likely include cuts to Medicare and Social Security.

THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS

Hard to understand why so many seniors vote for Republicans when their TOP priority is cutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste

The military feared Congress would use the confidential data as an excuse to slash defense spending.

Republicans never say a word about Billions in Military Waste and don’t seem to give a damn. They keep giving MORE money to the Military to WASTE while giving Tax Breaks to the Rich, increasing the Nation Debt to over 30 Trillion Dollars… the highest it’s ever been.

What a Waste: $778 Billion for the Pentagon and Still Counting

2021 was another banner year for the military-industrial complex, as Congress signed off on a near-record $778 billion in spending for the …

As stated in the above article “2021 was another banner year for the military-industrial complex, as Congress signed off on a near-record $778 billion in spending for the Pentagon and related work on nuclear warheads at the Department of Energy. That was $25 billion more than the Pentagon had even asked for. If current trends continue, the Pentagon could receive a monumental $7.3 trillion-plus over the next decade, more than was spent during the peak decade of the Afghan and Iraq wars’.

The primary focus of the United States Government should be to serve the American People. Programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security which help American Citizens should be a top priority to keep fully funded. A prosperous and healthy American population helps keep the economy healthy and prosperous.

The national debt was increased by a projected 8 Trillion by Trump and Republicans due to military spending and tax breaks for the RICH

Republican Leaders Plot Forcing Choice Between Economic Ruin Or Social Security And Medicare Cuts

New reporting and interviews with Republican leaders have clarified House Republicans’ intent to use threats to block an increase to the debt limit – which could lead to a default and a major economic crisis – subject to demands for policy concessions.

Per the above article: “New reporting and interviews with Republican leaders have clarified House Republicans’ intent to use threats to block an increase to the debt limit – which could lead to a default and a major economic crisis – subject to demands for policy concessions”.

The Bipartisan Policy Center projects that the debt limit will need to be raised in the third quarter of 2023. Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, chaired by Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) published a report last year titled: “Breaching the Debt Ceiling Could Harm Millions of Americans and Produce Economic Devastation.”

Debt limit fights were a hallmark of Republican congressional majorities during the Obama presidency, at the time Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell likened the tactic to hostage-taking. House Republicans now say one of their “top priorities” for a ransom in any future debt limit standoff would be demands for cuts to Social Security and Medicare:

Punchbowl: McCarthy On Debt Limit, Immigration And Ukraine

McCarthy signaled that Republicans would again hold the debt limit up for policy changes.
As we all remember, the debt limit was one of the bruising battles of the Obama presidency under then Speaker John Boehner. The U.S. government’s credit rating was downgraded for the first time ever following that 2011 debacle, but GOP lawmakers apparently are ready to try again in order to force “structural changes” to popular entitlement programs including Social Security and Medicare.

Here’s McCarthy on the debt limit:

“You can’t just continue down the path to keep spending and adding to the debt. And if people want to make a debt ceiling [for a longer period of time], just like anything else, there comes a point in time where, okay, we’ll provide you more money, but you got to change your current behavior. We’re not just going to keep lifting your credit card limit, right? And we should seriously sit together and [figure out] where can we eliminate some waste? Where can we make the economy grow stronger?”

We reminded McCarthy that he didn’t pitch these debt limit battles during the Trump era, during which the GOP ran up $7 trillion in new debt in only four years, including pandemic relief funding. Congress raised the debt ceiling three times during Trump’s presidency. Republicans only hold the borrowing cap hostage when Democrats are in the White House. McCarthy countered that President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have spent too much money, in his view.

We asked McCarthy if he intended to try to reform entitlements as part of the debt ceiling debate. McCarthy said he wouldn’t “predetermine” anything.

Bloomberg Government: Entitlement, Spending Cap Plans Linked by GOP to Debt-Limit Deal

“Social Security and Medicare eligibility changes, spending caps, and safety-net work requirements are among the top priorities for key House Republicans who want to use next year’s debt-limit deadline to extract concessions from Democrats.

The four Republicans interested in serving as House Budget Committee chairman in the next Congress said in interviews that next year’s deadline to raise or suspend the debt ceiling is a point of leverage if their party can win control of the House in the November midterm elections.

The Republican position — which members are still formulating — could set the stage for an explosive standoff next year, reminiscent of the 2011 negotiations when the Tea Party wave of Republicans took on the Obama administration over spending.”

It’s also possible Republicans will demand process-focused legislation — such as requiring a reduction in the debt-to-GDP ratio — that could subsequently put major entitlement programs in play.

If Congress doesn’t raise or suspend the debt limit by the deadline, the federal government would default on payments officials had already agreed to make. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned during 2021 negotiations that a default would be “a catastrophe” and could cause a financial crisis.

“The debt limit is clearly one of those tools that Republicans — that a Republican-controlled Congress — will use to make sure that we do everything we can to make this economy strong,” said Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) , the ranking member of the House Budget Committee. He’s seeking the top GOP spot on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee but said if he doesn’t get it, he’ll remain in his Budget Committee position.

Reps. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), and Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) are seeking the top spot on the Budget Committee if Smith gets the Ways and Means role. Those three agreed Republicans must use the debt-limit deadline to enact fiscally conservative legislation. Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), head of the Republican Study Committee’s Budget and Spending Task Force, also said the upcoming debt-limit deadline is “obviously a leverage point.”

Washington Post: GOP To Use Debt Limit To Force Spending Cuts, With Medicare, Social Security In Mix, McCarthy Says

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that if Republicans win control of the House the GOP will use raising the debt limit as leverage to force spending cuts — which could include cuts to Medicare and Social Security — and limit additional funding to Ukraine.

“You can’t just continue down the path to keep spending and adding to the debt,” the California Republican told Punchbowl News in a recent interview. “And if people want to make a debt ceiling [for a longer period of time], just like anything else, there comes a point in time where, okay, we’ll provide you more money, but you got to change your current behavior.”
“We’re not just going to keep lifting your credit card limit, right,” he added. “And we should seriously sit together and [figure out] where can we eliminate some waste? Where can we make the economy grow stronger?”

Pressed on whether changes to the entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security were part of the debt ceiling discussions, McCarthy said he would not “predetermine” anything.
The debt limit — the country’s borrowing cap — will need to be lifted next year to protect the country’s credit score and to prevent the United States from defaulting on its debt. But McCarthy suggested that his party would be willing to hold the debt limit up for policy changes.

Axios: GOP Leaders Prepare For 2023 Debt Limit “Nightmare”

GOP leaders, congressional aides and business groups are preparing for a potential “nightmare scenario” next year if House Republicans take back the majority: a debt limit showdown reminiscent of the near-crisis in 2011.

Why it matters: There are serious question marks — and underlying anxiety — surrounding what type of leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will be if elected as House speaker. How he handles a debt limit showdown will be a crucial test of his leadership abilities for which key stakeholders are already privately planning.

The Hill: McConnell, McCarthy Public Splits Raise Questions About Ability To Govern

McConnell helped fashion a compromise in December that allowed Democrats to raise the debt limit through the Senate with a simple majority vote.
McCarthy and other House GOP leaders, by comparison, made raising the limit harder by saying they would not vote for such a measure even if it were attached to popular defense legislation.

This is already fueling anxiety that Congress is heading for another debt-limit standoff next year, with Republicans potentially in control of the House this time.
In 2011, the nation came perilously close to defaulting on its obligations with a Democrat in the White House and a GOP House. It prompted Standard and Poor’s to downgrade the nation’s credit rating.

Newsweek: Fox News Host Confronts GOP’s Scalise on Proposed Medicare Cuts: ‘Betrayal’

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, on Sunday was confronted over potential voter discontent with the GOP’s plans for Medicare.

Representative Scalise appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss the upcoming midterm elections. As the minority whip, he is considered to be the second-highest-ranking Republican in the House.

As soon as his interview began, host Shannon Bream pressed Scalise over the party’s plans for Medicare and Social Security should they regain the House majority in this year’s midterms. Bream presented the lawmaker with a message from a concerned Fox News viewer, who characterized the GOP’s plan for Medicare as a potential “betrayal.”
“He’s a Republican, he’s very worried about you cutting his Medicare,” Bream said as she relayed the message she purported to have received on Twitter. “He says it’s a dealbreaker and a betrayal by the GOP.”

In June, the Republican Study Committee, of which Scalise is a member, released a budget plan that included numerous suggested reforms for Medicare and Social Security, including raising the eligibility ages for each program to 67 and 70, respectively. The proposal further called for withholding payments for individuals who retire early or had a certain level of income, and also suggested using private funding sources for Social Security to lower income taxes.

President Biden oversaw an 8.7% increase in Social Security benefits while Republicans want to CUT Social Security

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is a typical Republican who wants to cut Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.

Marco Rubio Makes It Clear: Republicans Will Cut Social Security And Medicare After Tax Cuts Pass

In an interview with Politico this past week, Republican Senator Marco Rubio made it painfully clear that his Party intends to cut Social Security and Medicare funding in the months to come, after they end up passing their corporate tax cuts, of course. The goal of the Republican Party is perfectly clear: They want to give everything they can to corporations while taking everything away from the rest of us.

Republicans Have Proposed To Cut Social Security Across The Board By More Than 21%’

Republicans want to roll back Medicaid, a program that insures nearly one in five Americans.

Republican Healthcare Bill Gives Tax Cuts to the Rich by Gutting Safety Net for Poor & Middle Class

Jul 23, 2021 – After Missouri Voters overwhelmingly voted for Medicaid Expansion, Republicans REFUSED to implement the Medicaid Expansion which was passed by voter referendum. The Missouri State Supreme Court ruled that Republicans cannot simply overrule the outcome of an election in which the state’s voters decided to amend the state constitution to expand Medicaid.

This is another example of how Republicans are adamantly against providing Medical Care for people, how they don’t gave a damn about Democracy or people’s votes and how at their core, they are anti-democratic fascist authoritarians.

Despite Trump’s promises NOT to cut Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security, that is exactly what he and Republicans intends to do.

Trump has broken his promises to American seniors. His 2020 budget proposes cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Our seniors deserve better, and that is why we are fighting today and every day to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.

Trump’s just-released 2021 proposed budget calls for $292 billion in cuts to safety net programs (including Medicaid and food stamps), $170 billion in cuts to student loan forgiveness, a $3.3 billion cut to the National Institutes of Health, and a $6.2 billion cut to the Education Dept. Funding would rise for ICE, Customs & Border Protection, the border wall, NASA, and Veterans Affairs.

Republicans want to Cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, VA Healthcare, Minimum Wage, Obamacare, Food Stamps, Child Health Care and more.

Republicans want to repeal every piece of legislation passed in the last 80 years which protects working people, children, the elderly or sick.

Fmr. GOP congressman: Why I changed my mind on Obamacare

Lawrence O’Donnell talks to Ezra Klein about the “catastrophic” CBO report – which estimates 22 million people would lose health care coverage – and GOP Rep. David Jolly shares his personal story of what happened when he found himself unemployed and uninsured. (June 26, 2017)

Senate GOP drafted a secret, partisan health care bill behind closed doors, refusing any meaningful bipartisan input on the bill and refusing to hold any hearings on this legislation that would impact one sixth of our economy. Senate Democrats today urged the GOP to reverse course on this tactic and release to the public the legislation that would impact the health and bottom lines of millions of Americans.  (Jun 13, 2017)

Chris Hayes Explains The ‘Shameless’ Mitch McConnell Doctrine

‘In an era of extreme polarization and weak institutions, you can get away with whatever you’re shameless enough to pursue,’ says Chris Hayes  (Jun 12, 2017)

Paul Ryan and Republicans want to give tax breaks to the rich and make the middle class & the poor pay for those tax breaks by increasing their taxes AND cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Paul Ryan has been dreaming about cutting Medicaid Since College

Paul Ryan Budget Plan Explained

“Paul Ryan’s budget takes us back to 1950. That’s not a metaphor. That’s a statistic. When the CBO projected Ryan’s plan four decades into the future, it concluded that the size of government would shrink to 15% of the economy by 2050. How small is 15%? As a share of GDP, it would be the smallest government since 1950/’51. Here’s Ryan’s proposed 2050 budget and our real 1950 budget, side by side…”.* What would the impact be on education, the border patrol, FDA, FAA, FBI, Medicare, and Social Security?

Under president Bush, Republicans ran up a huge debt of 10 Trillion Dollars.  Now, they want to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and middle class, by cutting food stamps, social security, medicare and medicaid while refusing to cut military spending.

This chart shows where all of the money is going. There would be plenty of money for Social Security, Medicare Medicaid and Healthcare if so much wasn’t being wasted on the military and endless wars.

Republicans in Congress wanted to hold the debt ceiling hostage to force benefit cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and even Social Security. If they can’t get these cuts by threatening the solvency of our nation, their next opportunity will come as Congress attempts to craft a deficit reduction plan to avoid the $110 billion in automatic cuts delayed in the fiscal cliff legislation. Once again, many legislators have made it clear they expect seniors, retirees, the disabled, and the poor to pay down our deficit. They will demand drastic changes such as raising the retirement age, means testing, or changing the cost of living allowance (COLA) formula to cut benefits to millions of middle class and poor beneficiaries in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security who are still struggling in this economy.

Democrats in Congress succeeded in keeping these devastating benefit cuts out of the short-term “fiscal cliff” deal. Unfortunately, important leverage was also lost. Washington’s well-financed anti-entitlement lobby continues to pretend that “shared sacrifice” means that if a millionaire loses a tax break (which he or she doesn’t need and America can’t afford) then the middle-class and poor must also pay more for or risk losing their health care benefits in Medicare and Medicaid. [Source: http://ncpssm.org/EntitledtoKnow/entryid/1962/Cutting-Medicare-Medicaid-Social-Security-in-the-113th-Congress]

Republicans accuse Democrats of being fiscally irresponsible. But as the video above shows, it’s Republicans who are responsible for running up the Debt & Deficits due to their excessive Military Spending and Tax Breaks for the Rich

National Debt exploded under REPUBLICANS Ronald Reagan & George H.W. Bush due to excessive military spending and tax breaks for the RICH.

This was all part of the “Two Santa Clauses” plan whereby they run up the debt & cut taxes when a Republican is President so they are viewed as a good “Santa Clause”. Then when a Democrat is President, Republicans scream about the National Debt, refuse to increase the debt ceiling, shut down the government if necessary to stop Democrats from spending any money on social programs which could help working Americans. Be sure to watch the SHOCKING video below about this.

REPUBLICANS increase the National Debt with excessive military spending and tax breaks to the RICH so there’s no money for Social Programs which benefit the middle class & the poor

The above video explains how for the past 40 years since Ronald Reagan was President, Republicans have been victimizing Americans using a tactic called the “Two Santa Clauses”, whereby they run up the debt & cut taxes when a Republican is President so they are viewed as the good “Santa Clause”. Then when a Democrat is President, Republicans scream about the National Debt, refuse to increase the debt ceiling, shut down the government if necessary to stop Democrats from spending any money on social programs which could help working Americans.

In this way, Republicans are literately punishing Americans for voting for Democrats who are dedicated to helping the middle class and the poor while doing everything possible to make sure Democrats can’t help the middle class and the poor, to make them look like the “Bad Santa Clause”.

This is another example of how Republicans are RUTHLESS… ONLY caring about seizing, maintaining power, being subservient to Corporate Interests and the RICH.

The above video explains how George W. Bush took Democrat’s and Bill Clinton’s budget surplus and exploded the debt by almost 10 Trillion, doing what Republicans always do…. giving Tax Breaks to the Rich (as shown in the graphs below) and then tanked the economy.

Inventor Of Trickle Down Economics Says Trump’s Tax Plan Is “Dead on Arrival”

David Stockman, the economist who developed the theory of trickle down economics during the Reagan administration, says that Trump’s tax plan is a giveaway to the wealthy elite and that it will result in an economic downturn. Stockman has admitted that his theory of trickle down economics is implausible, and he regrets the damage that his policy has caused this country.

Trump Tax Cuts Add WAY More Debt Than Advertised

“Experts” low-balled the amount of debt the Republican tax plan would entail.

As shown in these graphs, Republicans are responsible for reckless spending and will NEVER have a balanced budget due to their “Trickle Down Economics”, “Starve the Beast” and “Two Santa Clauses” tactics.

Democrats balanced the budget when Clinton was president. Republicans and George W. Bush exploded the debt with unpaid for wars and tax breaks for the RICH.

Obama calls out Republicans for Causing Deficits and Debts

The Grover Norquist Tax Pledge which says Republicans shall never raise taxes helped skyrocket the Debt.

In an original broadcast essay, Bill says there’s more to Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge than ideology or principle — it’s also about Norquist’s efforts keep taxes low for his donor base of billionaires.

In this chart, the RED lines on the left side – the ones that keep doing DOWN – show what happened to jobs under the policies of Bush and the Republicans. We were losing lots and lots of jobs every month, and it was getting worse and worse. The BLUE lines – the ones that just go UP – show what happened to jobs when the stimulus was in effect. We stopped losing jobs and started gaining jobs, and it was getting better and better.

The leveling off on the right side of the chart shows what happened as the stimulus started to wind down: job creation leveled off at too low a level.

It looks a lot like the stimulus reversed what was going on before the stimulus. We have gone from losing around 850,000 jobs a month to gaining over 200,000 jobs a month.

Conclusion: THE STIMULUS WORKED BUT WAS NOT ENOUGH!

More False Things

These are just three of the false things that everyone “knows” because places like Fox News repeat them over and over and over. Some others are (click through): Obama bailed out the banks, businesses will hire if they get tax cuts, health care reform cost $1 trillion, Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme or is “going broke”, tax cuts grow the economy, government spending “takes money out of the economy.”

Actually This Reduced Spending And Lower Deficit Have Hurt The Economy

Government spending is literally, by definition, the things that government does to make our lives better. People have been tricked into thinking that government spending is somehow bad. The billionaires and giant corporations spread this nonsense around because they are greedy and just want their taxes lower. The top income tax rate used to be more than 90 percent and the top corporate tax rate used to be more than 50 percent. That was back when we built this country’s great infrastructure, had good schools and defended the world against the Soviet Union. We also had higher economic growth and a growing middle class.

Government spending does not “take money out of the economy.” In fact it puts money into the economy, creates jobs and lays the foundation for future prosperity. The decline in government spending shown in the charts above is the reason that the economy remains sluggish and jobs are still hard to get. Just look at that chart showing what the stimulus spending did for the job situation. But since the stimulus ended, Republicans have obstructed every effort to continue to use our government to help our economy.

WASTING TRILLIONS ON THE MILITARY

Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste

The military feared Congress would use the confidential data as an excuse to slash defense spending.

As shown in the above graph, the United States spends more on the military than Russia, China, the UK and other countries COMBINED.

We’re 30 Trillion dollars in debt because of Republican’s wasteful, bloated military spending, giving tax breaks to large corporations & the RICH while refusing to make them pay their fair share. Republicans has no problem spending trillions of dollars on the military and wars, but they want to cut programs like food stamps, medicare, social security, etc which benefits regular Americans and the poor.

Sen. Sanders on ‘No’ Vote to $778 Billion Defense Budget

Unnecessary wars, trillions wasted on the military and Tax Breaks for the Rich is why we’re trillions in debt and have crumbling infrastructure.

NO ONE in congress has said anything about the Billions in Military Waste as reported in the above article “Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste”

If it weren’t for the trillions of dollars wasted on the military and trillions spent on past failed wars such as Viet-Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan and others, plus the Bush Tax cuts, we wouldn’t have a 20 Trillion Dollar debt.

Republicans are being RECKLESS by cutting taxes on the Rich and corporations when we have a 20 Trillion Dollar debt. That debt needs to be paid down.  The cold war is over… we don’t need to spend trillions on the military any more.   That money should be spent on the American people, the poor, the homeless, not bombs and wars.

The number of agencies contained in the United States Federal Government is mind boggling.  Here’s a list of US Government Agencies.

If we were shut down some of the agencies which are unnecessary and cut wasteful military spending, there would be a lot more money to help the poor & homeless in this country and increase Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits for American citizens.

Eisenhower’s Warning: Military Industrial Complex’s Growing Budget

United States military spending has ballooned since World War II, although Americans have historically been reluctant to go to war.

Military Spending is out of control

Sean Hannity gets Busted by Keith Olbermann for making False claim against President Obama claiming that President Obama said Insurance Executives are “Bad People”.

Fox News Coverage of (Trump) Coronavirus vs. (Obama) Ebola

What If Fox Covered Trump the Way It Covered Obama?

Sean Hannity was all for NSA surveillance when Republican George W. Bush was president, but accused President Obama of NSA surveillance snooping and claimed it’s a violation of the 4th Amendment. More proof Hannity is not fair or balanced and engages in Political Hackery.

Title from YouTube: “Fox Gets Busted Again & Again”

Title from YouTube: “Sean Hannity Confesses Using Fake Footage: “Jon Stewart Was Right!”

How Fox News evolved into a propaganda operation

A media scholar on the dangerous evolution of Fox News.

Per the above article; “A recent piece by the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer is the latest to pose this question. Back in 2017, the New Republic’s Alex Shephard floated a similar argument, writing that “Donald Trump is treating Fox News like state TV.”

Even Bret Baier, a lead anchor at Fox News, addressed the claims in a 2018 interview with the New Yorker, saying it “pains” him to hear that the cable news channel has become “state TV” for the Trump administration.

There’s plenty of evidence to support the argument. Trump constantly watches Fox News, tweets out claims he hears on the network, reportedly speaks regularly with Sean Hannity, and gives the majority of his interviews to Fox News. World leaders as well as members of Congress quickly learned that one of the best ways to communicate a message to Trump is to say it on Fox News”.

Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?

It’s not just misinformation gained from too many hours listening to Fox News, either.

Per the above article: “Why are conservatives so susceptible to misinformation? The right wing’s disregard for facts and reasoning is not a matter of stupidity or lack of education. College-educated Republicans are actually more likely than less-educated Republicans to have believed that Barack Obama was a Muslim and that “death panels” were part of the ACA. And for political conservatives, but not for liberals, greater knowledge of science and math is associated with a greater likelihood of dismissing what almost all scientists believe about the human causation of global warming.

Part of the problem is widespread suspicion of facts—any facts. Both mistrust of scientists and other “experts” and mistrust of the mass media that reports what scientists and experts believe have increased among conservatives (but not among liberals) since the early ’80s. The mistrust has in part, at least, been deliberately inculcated. The fossil fuel industry publicizes studies to confuse the climate change debate; Big Pharma hides unfavorable information on drug safety and efficacy; and many schools in conservative areas teach students that evolution is “just a theory.” The public is understandably confused about both the findings and methods of science. “Fake news” deliberately created for political or economic gain and Donald Trump’s claims that media sites that disagree with him are “fake news” add to the mistrust.
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But, the gullibility of many on the right seems to have deeper roots even than this. That may be because at the most basic level, conservatives and liberals seem to hold different beliefs about what constitutes “truth.” Finding facts and pursuing evidence and trusting science is part of liberal ideology itself. For many conservatives, faith and intuition and trust in revealed truth appear as equally valid sources of truth.

Psychologists have repeatedly reported that self-described conservatives tend to place a higher value than those to their left on deference to tradition and authority. They are more likely to value stability, conformity, and order, and have more difficulty tolerating novelty and ambiguity and uncertainty. They are more sensitive than liberals to information suggesting the possibility of danger than to information suggesting benefits”.

Chris Wallace breaks silence on why he left Fox

CNN’s Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter react to Chris Wallace’s interview with the New York Times on why he left Fox.

CNBC host Shepard Smith discusses his time at Fox News and why he eventually left.

The News division which was headed by Shep Smith, provided legitimate, unbiased news reporting. It’s completely separate from the opinion based shows such as Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Jeanine Pirro, etc. Shep Smith frequently criticized Donald Trump.

In October 2019, within days of Attorney General William Barr meeting with head honcho Rupert Murdoch, Shep Smith announced his resignation.

Ex-Fox Employee Tells All

Ex-Fox Employee talks about his time working at Fox & for Bill O’Reilly. Also how doing “Fair and Balanced” reporting was a running joke at Fox and how he personally witnessed their airing stories which were unconfirmed and false.

CNN’s Brian Stelter ponders about the future of Fox News and the Murdoch family as its patriarch, Rupert Murdoch, approaches 90 years old.

Roger Ailes, president of Fox News, in the Fox TV control room. (Helayne Seidman)

Roger Eugene Ailes is president of Fox News Channel, and chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush and for Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign (1989).

Per an article at gawker, a memo entitled “A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News,” buried in the the Nixon library details a plan between Ailes and the White House to bring Pro GOP stories to television networks around the country. (see gawker complete story)

Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a “fair and balanced” counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual forerunner for Fox News was a nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to circumvent the “prejudices of network news” and deliver “pro-administration” stories to heartland television viewers.

The memo—called, simply enough, “A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News”— is included in a 318-page cache of documents detailing Ailes’ work for both the Nixon and George H.W. Bush administrations that we obtained from the Nixon and Bush presidential libraries. Through his firms REA Productions and Ailes Communications, Inc., Ailes served as paid consultant to both presidents in the 1970s and 1990s, offering detailed and shrewd advice ranging from what ties to wear to how to keep the pressure up on Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the first Gulf War.

The documents—drawn mostly from the papers of Nixon chief of staff and felon H.R. Haldeman and Bush chief of staff John Sununu—reveal Ailes to be a tireless television producer and joyful propagandist. He was a forceful advocate for the power of television to shape the political narrative, and he reveled in the minutiae constructing political spectacles—stage-managing, for instance, the lighting of the White House Christmas tree with painstaking care. He frequently floated ideas for creating staged events and strategies for manipulating the mainstream media into favorable coverage, and used his contacts at the networks to sniff out the emergence of threatening narratives and offer advice on how to snuff them out—warning Bush, for example, to lay off the golf as war in the Middle East approached because journalists were starting to talk. There are also occasional references to dirty political tricks, as well as some positions that seem at odds with the Tea Party politics of present-day Fox News: Ailes supported government regulation of political campaign ads on television, including strict limits on spending. He also advised Nixon to address high school students, a move that caused his network to shriek about “indoctrination” when Obama did it more than 30 years later.

The Idea Behind Fox News Channel Originated in the Nixon White House

“A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News” (read it here) is an unsigned, undated memo calling for a partisan, pro-GOP news operation to be potentially paid for and run out of the White House. Aimed at sidelining the “censorship” of the liberal mainstream media and delivering prepackaged pro-Nixon news to local television stations, it reads today like a detailed precis for a Fox News prototype. From context provided by other memos, it’s apparent that the plan was hatched during the summer of 1970. And though it’s not clear who wrote it, the copy provided by the Nixon Library literally has Ailes’ handwriting all over it—it appears he was routed the memo by Haldeman and wrote back his enthusiastic endorsement, refinements, and a request to run the project in the margins.

The 15-page plan begins with an acknowledgment that television had emerged as the most powerful news source in large part because “people are lazy” and want their thinking done for them:

Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.

With that in mind, the anonymous GOP official urged the creation of a network “to provide pro-Administration, videotape, hard news actualities to the major cities of the United States.” Aware that the national television networks were the enemy, the writer proposed going around them by sending packaged, edited news stories and interviews with politicians directly to local television stations.

This is a plan that places news of importance to localities (Senators and representatives are newsmakers of importance to their localities) on local television news programs while it is still news. It avoids the censorship, the priorities, and the prejudices of network news selectors and disseminators.

This was before satellite, so the idea was that this GOP news outlet would record an interview with a Republican lawmaker in the morning, rush the tape to National Airport via truck, where it is edited into a package en route, and flown to the lawmaker’s district in time to make the local news. Local stations, the writer surmised, would be happy to take the free programming. The plan is spectacularly detailed—it was no idle pipe dream. The writer estimated that it would cost $310,000 to launch and slightly less than that to run each year, sketched out a 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. schedule with shooting times, editing times, flight times, and arrival times, and estimated that the editing truck—”Ford, GMC, or IHS chassis; V8 engine; 5 speed transmission; air conditioning; Weight: 22,000GVW”—could be “build from chassis in 60 days.” In other words, they were serious.

In a Rolling Stone story, Tim Dickinson tells how onetime Nixon henchman Roger Ailes built Fox News into the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Ailes has amassed enormous power in the Republican Party – and the country – by pioneering a new form of political campaign, one in which Fox functions as a “giant soundstage created to mimic the look of a news operation,” disguising GOP talking points as journalism.

There can be no doubt that Roger Ailes dream has been realized in Fox News

On the day after the president gave his State of the Union address in January, Fox News swung into full campaign mode, hammering Obama with five GOP talking points that have come to define the budget debate. The baldfaced distortions came not just from a parade of Republican politicians – who outnumbered Democrats by 3 to 1 – but from the network’s own anchors. Click here to read the entire article at Rolling Stone.

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