The republican party is itself the epitome of "waste, fraud and abuse" but specifically the FRAUD part of the phrase. Republican states are TAKER states - maybe they should step up and voluntarily disconnect themselves from Medicaid to prove their loyalty. That should save a bundle towards billionaire tax breaks. People in republican states could just "buck up", get a job and pay their own insurance way. Lead us out of "waste, fraud and abuse" by example. Oh, and Republican congressmen how about giving up your own govt' paid benefits like your plushy insurance plans - just to show unity with your TAKER states constituents giving up Medicaid.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
"But ultimately the outcome may depend on whether Trump decides to push hard for big cuts—which, in turn, may depend on whether he thinks his MAGA supporters will react badly." Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
GOP will figure out a way to do these cuts because 1) the tax reduction is the only thing that they care about and 2) they can obfuscate the cuts and over time figure out how to blame the consequences on Democrats.
Math is hard. If you want low taxes for rich people, you either have to live with very large deficits or cut not just Medicaid, but Medicare and SS. Anyone with a federal pie chart and a calculator can figure this out. So which is it Republicans? Are you really the party of the working class? Or was that just nonsense?
I don't think aberrations like this Loomer incident is necessarily random or personal. Some of this kind of thing could be seen as people who are more clear-eyed (albeit evil) and see some of the deadfalls the MAGA faithful are barreling towards. It's possible that she perceives that "too much of Trumpiness" is not a good thing for Trumpism.
Their Dear Leader has lost his mind and is now doddering. His aides prop him up for public display as a proof of life, confident that the faithful have an infinite capacity for rationalization. But more to the point: congressional GOP is still vigorously pursuing Trump's most recent instructions, but his hand is no longer on the tiller to adjust for shifts in the political winds. They, in their enthusiasm for what they think he wants, will drive the whole ship aground. Probably sooner rather than later.
I never thought I would agree with Laura Loomer on anything. She is still a total whack job, but she is right about Medicaid. I forget who it was who said politics makes strange bedfellows, but it doesn’t get much stranger than this.
I should add that I still have to report his wages to the SSA monthly, and he can have only $2000 in total assets, which is an amount that hasn't been raised since 1989. When he was on SSI, his SSI amount would be reduced because of his earned income (less than 30 hours per month), so the monthly SSI amount bounced around. The on-going paperwork is no longer that onerous because SS and SSDI are fixed amounts. SSA can look into his bank accounts, and they do. If his landlord is late cashing the rent check, he goes over assets, because his rent is almost $1600. When he got SSI, he would routinely get kicked off. If you're over-assets by $1, SSA claws back the full amount for that month. You can appeal (and I did, and I routinely won), but this was a regular occurrence. I.e., I have to monitor his funds tightly. You used to be able to pay this back to SSA over time via reduction in a future benefit, but under this administration they want to collect it all at once. It now takes almost a year just to get an appeal scheduled. But sure, let's make this harder for beneficiaries, by cutting customer service, phone assistance, etc.
Unfortunately it sounds like there many more that have variations of your struggle. I am hoping these stories get out to congress to push them to do something to the benefit of their constituents
More Repubs contradicting Prez. T is good. Check your or relatives' states, using link Jonathan provides, at the bottom. The source there counts providers subsidized by Affordable Care Act (ACA) and then lists problems for that state. Providers are for Medicare and not just Medicaid, It must have been lots of work to compile..
Of the few I checked, Texas seems a mess. He could only find five providers, a willy-nilly way of naming providers causing confusion?? It's might be a place where the ruling GOP thinks thinks being really good at loud bragging is the same as efficiency? Aetna is puling out?.
I never thought I would ever agree with ANYTHING Laura Loomer puts forth, but she is right about not cutting Medicaid. But No.2 is really too stupid to realize that it's a huge number of MAGA people who live in poorer areas and NEED Medicaid. All he really cares about is what's in it for him and giving himself and his fat cats oligarchs a tax cut, like they really need it? Hopefully, though, I hope he listens to her. He has gutted so many agencies and departments that truly help America have a life, and I just hope this isn't one of them. Terri Quint
For most of my adult life - since the Reagan admin - I have watched heartland voters being conned by the insincere embrace of social issues to vote against their own economic interests. The result has been the greatest shift of wealth away from the middle class in our history. Having caught this car, the Republicans are now in the no win position of having to take away government benefit to effect further wealth transfer. They are finding it understandably hard. Perhaps the masses will finally wake up to the fact that it’s all been a con.
No chance. Cultists always find a way to explain/justify the bad actions of their Dear Leader against them. A case in point is the MAGA guy whose wife was deported, who said he didn't regret voting Trump and would do so again. Accepting the sacrifice of a family member to the altar of Trump tells you everything you need to know about these fools.
Loomer looms large on this one. Chopping off the hand that fed you an election? Gotta love it. Go ahead and justify that one away. Just further proof the False Messiah didn't care then and doesn't care now. But they still won't get it. Happy now?
The republican party is itself the epitome of "waste, fraud and abuse" but specifically the FRAUD part of the phrase. Republican states are TAKER states - maybe they should step up and voluntarily disconnect themselves from Medicaid to prove their loyalty. That should save a bundle towards billionaire tax breaks. People in republican states could just "buck up", get a job and pay their own insurance way. Lead us out of "waste, fraud and abuse" by example. Oh, and Republican congressmen how about giving up your own govt' paid benefits like your plushy insurance plans - just to show unity with your TAKER states constituents giving up Medicaid.
That quote from Blase's Journal Op Ed made my head spin. We have to gut Medicaid to keep people from voting for Democrats? These people are nutters
What we have here is proof of the “Blind Squirrel Axiom” - Even a blind squirrel stumbles across a nut every now and then.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
They are all cowards and will bow down to Trump!
"But ultimately the outcome may depend on whether Trump decides to push hard for big cuts—which, in turn, may depend on whether he thinks his MAGA supporters will react badly." Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
Very informative, well-written analysis. Thanks!
GOP will figure out a way to do these cuts because 1) the tax reduction is the only thing that they care about and 2) they can obfuscate the cuts and over time figure out how to blame the consequences on Democrats.
Math is hard. If you want low taxes for rich people, you either have to live with very large deficits or cut not just Medicaid, but Medicare and SS. Anyone with a federal pie chart and a calculator can figure this out. So which is it Republicans? Are you really the party of the working class? Or was that just nonsense?
Oh, wheels within wheels...
I don't think aberrations like this Loomer incident is necessarily random or personal. Some of this kind of thing could be seen as people who are more clear-eyed (albeit evil) and see some of the deadfalls the MAGA faithful are barreling towards. It's possible that she perceives that "too much of Trumpiness" is not a good thing for Trumpism.
Their Dear Leader has lost his mind and is now doddering. His aides prop him up for public display as a proof of life, confident that the faithful have an infinite capacity for rationalization. But more to the point: congressional GOP is still vigorously pursuing Trump's most recent instructions, but his hand is no longer on the tiller to adjust for shifts in the political winds. They, in their enthusiasm for what they think he wants, will drive the whole ship aground. Probably sooner rather than later.
I never thought I would agree with Laura Loomer on anything. She is still a total whack job, but she is right about Medicaid. I forget who it was who said politics makes strange bedfellows, but it doesn’t get much stranger than this.
I should add that I still have to report his wages to the SSA monthly, and he can have only $2000 in total assets, which is an amount that hasn't been raised since 1989. When he was on SSI, his SSI amount would be reduced because of his earned income (less than 30 hours per month), so the monthly SSI amount bounced around. The on-going paperwork is no longer that onerous because SS and SSDI are fixed amounts. SSA can look into his bank accounts, and they do. If his landlord is late cashing the rent check, he goes over assets, because his rent is almost $1600. When he got SSI, he would routinely get kicked off. If you're over-assets by $1, SSA claws back the full amount for that month. You can appeal (and I did, and I routinely won), but this was a regular occurrence. I.e., I have to monitor his funds tightly. You used to be able to pay this back to SSA over time via reduction in a future benefit, but under this administration they want to collect it all at once. It now takes almost a year just to get an appeal scheduled. But sure, let's make this harder for beneficiaries, by cutting customer service, phone assistance, etc.
Unfortunately it sounds like there many more that have variations of your struggle. I am hoping these stories get out to congress to push them to do something to the benefit of their constituents
More Repubs contradicting Prez. T is good. Check your or relatives' states, using link Jonathan provides, at the bottom. The source there counts providers subsidized by Affordable Care Act (ACA) and then lists problems for that state. Providers are for Medicare and not just Medicaid, It must have been lots of work to compile..
Of the few I checked, Texas seems a mess. He could only find five providers, a willy-nilly way of naming providers causing confusion?? It's might be a place where the ruling GOP thinks thinks being really good at loud bragging is the same as efficiency? Aetna is puling out?.
I never thought I would ever agree with ANYTHING Laura Loomer puts forth, but she is right about not cutting Medicaid. But No.2 is really too stupid to realize that it's a huge number of MAGA people who live in poorer areas and NEED Medicaid. All he really cares about is what's in it for him and giving himself and his fat cats oligarchs a tax cut, like they really need it? Hopefully, though, I hope he listens to her. He has gutted so many agencies and departments that truly help America have a life, and I just hope this isn't one of them. Terri Quint
For most of my adult life - since the Reagan admin - I have watched heartland voters being conned by the insincere embrace of social issues to vote against their own economic interests. The result has been the greatest shift of wealth away from the middle class in our history. Having caught this car, the Republicans are now in the no win position of having to take away government benefit to effect further wealth transfer. They are finding it understandably hard. Perhaps the masses will finally wake up to the fact that it’s all been a con.
No chance. Cultists always find a way to explain/justify the bad actions of their Dear Leader against them. A case in point is the MAGA guy whose wife was deported, who said he didn't regret voting Trump and would do so again. Accepting the sacrifice of a family member to the altar of Trump tells you everything you need to know about these fools.
Loomer looms large on this one. Chopping off the hand that fed you an election? Gotta love it. Go ahead and justify that one away. Just further proof the False Messiah didn't care then and doesn't care now. But they still won't get it. Happy now?