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Math is hard! This time, with feeling…

11 Wednesday Dec 2024

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Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[December 11, 2024]
Our national debt has hit almost $36 trillion, and we’re spending more on interest than on our entire defense budget.
This is unsustainable—we must restore fiscal responsibility to secure our future.
[….]

Some of the responses:

Republicans ALWAYS blow a Grand Canyon sized hole in the Budget – never fails… and how many more BILLION$ is DHS gonna add to that when y’all start rounding up the low-wage work force…???

Trump added massive numbers to the debt. He will do so again.

Thanks to Donnie dark. Look out he’s going to make it worse with those tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
You make us laugh, mark.

Mark makes me angry! Why do we put the most stupid people in positions of power?

Pandering on tv again

That’s all he knows how to do. He’s not a smart man, you know. #useless

so I guessing you will not have a deficit under Trump is what you are saying?

Heh.

Not if past history repeats itself, national debt increased 40.43% under the tyrant Trump.

The wall seemed pretty expensive.

How DARE you suggest cutting the Social Security that I paid for over 40YEARS! Just to give the VERY RICH a tremendous tax cut. Djt lied when he said he wouldn’t touch social security or Medicare. Make the very rich pay their FAIR share and support your middle class constituents not your wealthy out of state Donors!

“The third rail of American politics.”

So, how are you going to pay for these mass deportations?

Huge chunk of debt from Rumps first term

Instead of removing Social Security and health benefits for the poor, why don’t we end lifetime benefits for members of Congress?

Social Security and Medicare are NOT entitlements. They are paid for by taxpayers themselves. Instead of meeting with billionaire and millionaires like Musk and Ranshwamy to cut the limited income of senior citizen to justify tax cuts once again for those very millionaires and billionaires, you should consider raising the salary amount you deduct social security on. Currently that salary amount is $166,000. It is unimaginable that the way you people want to come up with the money to give these people another tax cut is sickening and puts seniors at risk of living in poverty, Something people like yourself and millionaires and billionaires don’t get because they’ve never been through it

Congressman Mark Alford You’re part of the problem.

House Republican Mark Alford eyes Medicare, Social Security for DOGE cuts.
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And 25% of that entire debt was accumulated during Traitor Trumps first term. Is he going to shoot for 50% in his second term.

This is the same scumbag, along with Rich McCormick, and Mike Lee that is pushing for cuts on SS and Medicare to kiss Elon Musk’s filthy apartheid ass.
These people aren’t interested in fixing American issues, simply gaslighting the problems, tricking the electorate into siding either their perspectives and then attacking anything that benefits everyday Americans.
When you keep voting against your own self interests, there are consequences. 10 Billionaires will form Trump’s 2nd term government. If you believe the oligarchy and their swamp care about you, you are the fool.

imagination has nothing to do with it. While you might be delusional, I’m simply stating a fact. Public domain knowledge. Alford and McCormick are both on recent record stating as much.
Instead of gaslighting, take five minutes and look it up. Clearly you have internet access and some modicum of know-how if you are blasting bullsh!t on Facebook, even if you lack common-sense.

Well then, Trumpty Dumpty is not your guy!!

Fuck you.

Heh.

Congressman Mark Alford did a Fox Business interview and threatened to cut Social Security & Medicare. Fox 4 KC set up an interview with him todaY at 5 to ask him about his statements, and he cancelled last minute.
HEADS UP, ALFORD VOTER. HE’S ON TV THREATENING TO CUT YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY

Keep getting your insider trading info and talk about raising retirement age. Dirtbag. Do your f’n job and stop ripping the country off. Why don’t you suggest term limits for yourself instead

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

And:

Congressman Mark Alford
[December 11, 2024]
We’re on the Armed Services Committee, and the data is clear: China is outpacing us in nearly every area of military armament, especially missiles.
This chart hangs in my office as a stark reminder—we must rebuild our military to deter threats and ensure peace through strength.
[….]

Some of the responses:

My take is this has occurred because Congress has failed to do its job. Maybe spend less time campaigning and groveling for dollars, so Congress can spend more time actually addressing issues. You spend lots of effort saying there are problems, but where are the results in fixing the problems?

Congressman Mark Alford so Social Security, Medicare, and SNAP are going to be erased, just to feed more money into the largest waster of tax payers money? Tell me. How much has been wasted over the last few decades alone, just trying to replace the Humvee and M-16/4 platform. We still don’t have a solid replacement for either, and it’s cost taxpayers hundreds of billions. Clean up military waste and leave social programs alone.

Peace through escalation?

The GOP sees the rich as our rightful rulers

17 Sunday Apr 2011

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Jonathan Chait calls Paul Ryan’s budget a “War on the Weak” and observes:

Ryan’s plan does do two things in immediate and specific ways: hurt the poor and help the rich. After extending the Bush tax cuts, he would cut the top rate for individuals and corporations from 35 percent to 25 percent. Then Ryan slashes Medicaid, Pell Grants, food stamps, and low-income housing. These programs to help the poor, which constitute approximately 21 percent of the federal budget, absorb two thirds of Ryan’s cuts.

Ryan spares anybody over the age of 55 from any Medicare or Social Security cuts, because, he says, they “have organized their lives around these programs.” But the roughly one in seven Americans (and nearly one in four children) on food stamps? Apparently they can have their benefits yanked away because they were only counting on using them to eat.

Ryan casts these cuts as an incentive for the poor to get off their lazy butts. He insists that we “ensure that America’s safety net does not become a hammock that lulls able-bodied citizens into lives of complacency and dependency.”

Question: Is Ryan channeling Sen. Jim Lembke (unemployed workers won’t “get off their backsides”) or vice versa? Or are they both channeling Ben Stein, whose personal survey reveals that:

The people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities. I say “generally” because there are exceptions. But in general, as I survey the ranks of those who are unemployed, I see people who have overbearing and unpleasant personalities and/or who do not know how to do a day’s work.

[emphasis in original]

Nice of him to qualify his hasty generalization with the word “generally”, but Think Progress disagrees:

The current recession is a global phenomenon caused by the collective bad behavior of the world’s largest financial institutions. Before the recession, the unemployment rate hovered around six percent; it is ludicrious to say that [fifteen million] Americans suddenly got lazier and less able to work within the span of a few months.

But, to return to the subject of Ryan cutting federal revenue by extending the Bush tax cuts, a P-D letter writer pointed out: “There are two parts to a budget. One is revenue. That is not the part you cut.” More specifically, according to WillyK:

if we do nothing about spending, but just let the the Bush tax cuts die a natural death, we would halve the deficit by 2021.

Here at home, that lesson is lost on Lembke et. al., who are slashing state revenue by turning down tens of millions in federal funds already appropriated for us. They claim it’s a protest about federal overspending, though their action does not cut the federal deficit by one cent. But the Lembke loonies aren’t the only Republicans who don’t understand that balancing the budget gets harder if you cut revenue. Both chambers have voted to eliminate our corporate franchise tax, thus costing Missouri $87 million a year.

Does anybody in the state legislature besides Jeanette Mott Oxford speak up for the sanest way to increase Missouri revenue: that is, by raising taxes on the wealthier Missouri families? Our top tax bracket is $9,000. As in $9,000! That was a munificent salary when it was instituted in 1931. It was like making $300,000 in today’s economy. But as a top tax bracket in 2011, it’s ludicrous. August Busch IV is in the same tax bracket as people renting one room apartments in urban ghettos.

Meanwhile, the meanies in Jeff City are doing their best to shove more Missourians out of the top tax bracket. They’ve undone another of our citizen initiatives by ruling that minimum wage workers won’t get automatic Cost of Living Adjustments. They’re making war on unions. Ideally, Republicans would like to pass Right-to-Work-for-Less, but if they can’t get that one through the lege this year, they’ll settle for enfeebling unions by legislating that employees must give their consent before a union can use their dues for political purposes.

We can only wait to see how many of these bad ideas Jay Nixon will veto.

If Missouri workers don’t begin to notice that the GOP views them as parasites and the rich as their rightful rulers, the situation will continue to deteriorate.