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Robert Reich

Republicans don't give a damn about the deficit. They've raised the debt ceiling again and again while handing out trillions in tax cuts to billionaires.

Their end goal is to gut popular programs like Social Security and Medicare, which tens of millions of Americans rely on.

@rbreich and the Republican Party needs to be held accountable and only the Democrats can do that! Our government is corrupt it’s broken and both parties are to blame

@rbreich yup. Not interested in life outside of their asylum

@rbreich I have been watching some of the various congressional hearings. Never an easy task but with the current batch of malcontents, traitors, and other less than savory characters who are mistaken for leaders and patriotic citizens, wow. How is it possible to be any less qualified to hold such positions of honor? Then, adding insult to injury, suggest/make changes to our democratic republic's processes which should not be even considered.
The inmates have control of the asylum.

@rbreich the party that supposedly hates the rich, loves giving the rich free shit they don’t need and denying free and necessary care/services to the working class. At the end of the day, conservatives don’t want freedom, they want control. They want their Christofascist regime with 0 accountability, financially as well as politically.

@rbreich which also shows you that they reply on the natural barriers of thinking democracy to stop them.

The currency is useless to them too if they're allowed to entirely run it into the ground, but in the moment and act, that will never, ever apply to their basis of conduct... And so it's up to the rational to be grown ups.

@rbreich They also want to hobble the country and blame Biden.

@rbreich One issue is so many people earning little pay, paying little Social Security tax.

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Once that happens, there won't be a labor shortage, instead, the market will be filled with people scrapping for every sub-minimum wage job.

@rbreich I doubt that any politician who wants to remain in office will mess with Social Security and Medicare. For one thing, we pay into the SS fund our entire working lives and Medicare is depended upon by seniors, and we have the votes! Go seniors!
GOP threats to these social programs are merely feeding campaign lies to their brain dead voters.

@rbreich lol they care about the deficit like democrats care about confirming judges

@rbreich distract the masses and reap the rewards

@rbreich democrats also raised the debt ceiling. Again and again. And threw a national tantrum when the government was "shut down" because raising it was delayed.

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It's all about the messaging, & Dems just don't get it.

As vile as the GOP message is they get it out there. Dems have a much better message & yet they're always reactive instead of proactive.

I like Jamie Harrison but he isn't getting the message out.

It's past time for the gloves to come off & stay off, at least until we kill the fascism that's creeping in.

Or am I wrong?

@rbreich the number one standard they have for anything the govt does is if they or their buddies can make a profit from it. No profit = no program.