馃攳
Republicans Say They鈥檙e Gutting Social Security & Medicare To Pay For Tax Cuts - YouTube
Channel: The Ring of Fire
[0]
Recent reports have shown us that the deficit
is growing at an alarming rate.
[4]
In fact, the tax cuts that Republicans put
in place at the end of last year have ballooned
[9]
the deficit by more than 20%.
[11]
Just that one piece of legislation, 20% increase
in the deficit.
[16]
Now, Republicans, during the Obama years,
were absolutely up in arms over the fact that
[21]
the deficit was getting out of control.
[23]
But, during the Bush years, when Dick Cheney
said deficits don't matter, they believed
[28]
it.
[29]
They're like, "Yeah.
[30]
Let's just spend all the money and not worry
about it."
[32]
Obama came along, increased spending to help
save the economy, which he did, and they were
[37]
furious.
[39]
But now, they're back in charge, so, once
again, deficits don't matter.
[44]
To an extent, they really don't until that
ballooning deficit is used to kill programs
[53]
that actually help keep American citizens
alive, which, unfortunately, is the scenario
[58]
playing out right now.
[60]
Realizing that the deficit is growing at a
rate that they cannot hope to sustain or even
[66]
pay down, Republicans have increased their
calls to cut social safety net programs that
[73]
millions of American citizens have been paying
into for their entire working lives.
[78]
They are, therefore, entitled to them.
[81]
That is why they're called entitlement programs.
[85]
We've already paid in all the money for them.
[88]
We just want to get our money back.
[91]
Republicans don't want to do that.
[93]
They want to take the money that we've paid
in and give it to the wealthy elite, the top
[98]
1%, in the form of tax cuts.
[102]
Right now, we have Representative Steve Stivers.
[105]
He's the most recent one.
[106]
He is a Republican from Ohio.
[108]
He went on CNBC, this week, to say that, because
of this deficit situation that is caused by
[114]
our tax cuts, we need to look at entitlement
reform.
[118]
We need to cut social security and Medicare.
[122]
Paul Ryan made it very clear.
[124]
He stated specifically, at the end of 2017,
that the next thing on his agenda, now that
[129]
he's passed the tax cuts, is cutting back
social security and Medicare.
[134]
Senator Pat Toomey, Republican from Pennsylvania,
said the same thing.
[139]
Senator John Thune, a Republican from South
Dakota, also says that we've got to cut these
[144]
entitlement programs, because we just basically
blew up the deficit.
[148]
Representative Republican Tom Cole, from Oklahoma,
says that he doesn't know much about economics,
[156]
but we probably need to get rid of some of
these entitlement programs or cut them down.
[161]
We have this idiot here, Tom Cole, who says,
"I don't even understand the economy, but
[165]
let's cut these things."
[168]
This is what we're dealing with, with this
particular political party right now, folks.
[172]
They gave everything that we had to the top
1%.
[177]
Studies, even studies by Republican think
tanks have shown us that average American
[182]
workers will get zero dollars from this tax
cut.
[186]
If we do get anything, it's going to take
several years for us to even get that money.
[192]
Then, by the time that happens, the tax cuts
for the underclass will have expired, so then,
[199]
we actually won't be eligible for it anymore.
[202]
The tax cuts for the top 1% are actually never
set to expire, just the ones for us, the poor
[207]
folk, the people who live paycheck to paycheck.
[210]
Now, they want to take the money that we have
been paying in for our entire working lives
[217]
to pay down the deficit that they created
by giving tax cuts to the wealthy elite.
[225]
The Republican Party is pure evil, 100%.
[229]
There is no other way to slice it.
[232]
If you want to take money that poor people
have paid into a program, so that they can,
[238]
maybe, one day retire or at least not be homeless
when they hit age 65, and you want to take
[244]
that money that they've been paying into,
most of them for 50 years, and give it to
[251]
billionaires, then, yeah, the only word available
to describe you is evil.
[258]
That is exactly what we're dealing with, with
Republican Party of 2018.
Most Recent Videos:
You can go back to the homepage right here: Homepage