When Republicans want to get rid of some program that helps ordinary Americans, they

[raccoon]

claim it "doesn't work", is in a "death spiral," etc.

Whenever they say that, your antennae should go up. Chances are very good that what they are saying is a Big Lie (copyrighted by Adolf and his bunch).

In fact, I'd go so far as to say, when they say that, you can believe the opposite.

In 1975, my boss said, "Social Security won't be worth a damn when we're old enough for it."
She is now 71, and though I haven't stayed in touch, I'm sure she's drawing her Social Security. (I may start a thread with this. Just shows how old that horseshit meme is.)

[underthematrix]

1. Yes yes. I think it's interesting I've read two DOJ Medicare fraud cases

in the last 5 minutes.

I receive Medicare and social security and I love both programs.

[dubyadiprecession]

2. I'm sure, the devil and Putin will still foster their agenda.

[Hortensis]

3. +1000. Pubs' next step to destroying is cutting taxes.

That's the big Republican congressional issue coming up next. For decades now the GOP has been "trimming the fat." People just don't connect cutting the funds governments and agencies need to function with resulting problems that make them unhappy, but the unhappier they get, the more they blame and the readier they are to dismantle.

This one's a small matter but multiply it by thousands of similar things, without even considering the huge national dysfunctions cutting into muscle and bone have created:

Yesterday we waited at a road construction site while an automated light system let cars through--once enough had piled up on one side and regardless of whether anyone was coming from the other, an 8-minute wait for us while no one came the other way. All day long lines of people wait there for no reason, while no doubt many of them get angry and frustrated with "the government." The fat cut here included not just 2 road-crew jobs but the previous commitment to serving the community properly.

Now that I think of it, that last cut into our society's rights to proper service is huge--multiply IT and you get changes in both government and common culture, and both very much for the bad.

[TexasProgresive]

4. Yeah, I heard those same SS will be dead long before I am eligible

starting in the early 70s. You can't get this through to died in the wool rPuke voters that the Rs have always hated SS and would destroy it if they get a chance.