Remember when Donald Trump wrote that stupid op-ed in USA Today claiming that Democrats wanted to take away your healthcare?
Trump wrote:
I also made a solemn promise to our great seniors to protect Medicare. That is why I am fighting so hard against the Democrats' plan that would eviscerate Medicare. Democrats have already harmed seniors by slashing Medicare by more than $800 billion over 10 years to pay for Obamacare. Likewise, Democrats would gut Medicare with their planned government takeover of American health care.
He recently tweeted the same line of garbage:
We know that Trump's op-ed was bullshit, as noted by Vox:
Follow the “pre-existing conditions” link and you’ll get a Washington Post fact-check itemexplaining that Trump has betrayed this promise. Follow the “new health care insurance options” link and you’ll find Trump talking during the campaign about allowing insurance plans to be sold across state lines, which hasn’t happened.
Most importantly of all, if you follow the link for “eviscerated Medicare” you find a New York Times analysis of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-all plan that concludes that Medicare enrollees “would have more generous coverage” under his plan.
Matter of fact, it's his own party that is the one trying to "eviscerate medicare."
In an interview with Bloomberg, Mitch McConnell blamed the increase in federal deficits not on the Republican tax polices, but on the bipartisan unwillingness to cut spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
McConnell's position via Bloomberg (underline emphasis mine):
“It’s disappointing, but it’s not a Republican problem,” McConnell said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg News when asked about the rising deficits and debt. “It’s a bipartisan problem: unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the demographics of America in the future.”
The Republican Party cuts taxes for the wealthy, as seen on this graph:
The Congressional Budget Office estimated the tax cut would add $1.9 trillion to the federal deficit, but this is Republican politics 101.
They cut revenue, increase spending, turn around and say that we need to cut spending on "entitlements," which implies that the richest in this country are the one's who need the help.
This Republican strategy is pretty easy to follow if one just spent a few moments doing research, but it is odd that Mitch McConnell would start talking about doing things that will impact the most vulnerable of Americans just weeks before the 2018 Midterms?
Bill Palmer writes:
Why on earth did McConnell just shatter the illusion by publicly admitting that he and the GOP plan to target Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, all by name, just three weeks before the midterm elections? He just told everyone who cares about these programs to go vote Democrat – and he’s not been the kind of guy to slip up like this.
Why Mitch McConnell did this? No one will really know for now. Maybe he's confident that the Democrats will take back congress, and as Bill Palmer mentions, will use the next two years blaming Democrats for policies he is to blame. McConnell is that disingenuous of a douchebag to do such a thing.
What I do know at this very moment, is that it totally undermines Donald Trump, and I love it!
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