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re: Mike Johnson is a clown

Posted on 6/19/26 at 9:49 pm to
Posted by TBoy
Kalamazoo
Member since Dec 2007
28782 posts
Posted on 6/19/26 at 9:49 pm to
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We need to put the money back in the fund and make it untouchable.

Al Gore ran on this as his top priority. There was a budget surplus and Gore wanted it to be used to repay what they had taken out of Social Security and make it untouchable. He referred to it as a “lock box.”

Republicans ran on taking the money and doing tax cuts for the wealthy.

G W Bush won, and we went deep into deficit spending, that has continued to this day.
Posted by CrystalPreserves
Member since May 2019
4560 posts
Posted on 6/19/26 at 9:50 pm to
He’s also as gay as Scott Bessent and everybody can see it.
Posted by Rip Torner
Member since Jul 2023
2847 posts
Posted on 6/19/26 at 9:58 pm to
Masculinity and femininity are hugely important factors in electing Democrats, there are certainly no openly gay or transgender representatives!!
Posted by andwesway
Zachary, LA
Member since Jun 2016
3530 posts
Posted on 6/19/26 at 10:27 pm to
I wish they'd stop taking that out of my paycheck and let me invest it myself.
Posted by bamalee
Member since Jan 2009
1318 posts
Posted on 6/19/26 at 10:48 pm to
Screw that, cut defense spending, cut welfare spending, cut every department before you start on SS, why because they have wasted money on everything you can think of. So know, I use to be raise the age but after seeing how much these R's and D's hate just normal americans, screw that, don't raise my age start cutting some shet.
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
174531 posts
Posted on 6/19/26 at 10:51 pm to
Trump wants to increase defense spending by 500 billion a year

Good luck with that idea

We need to drastically decrease defense spending
Posted by CDawson
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2017
20475 posts
Posted on 6/19/26 at 10:55 pm to
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We need to find a way to fund it


Or how about we get the government out of retirement and let individuals do it themselves?
Posted by LouisianaLonghorn
Austin, Texas
Member since Jan 2006
15907 posts
Posted on 6/19/26 at 10:57 pm to
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This. Give me all the money back they have stolen from me for a fund that won't be around when I retire so I can invest it myself and triple it.


Agree. It's a fricking Ponzi scheme. Force hard working Americans to pay into it for decades, then, when it comes time for them to collect, try to screw them out of the money they're owed. I don't care what they do with the system, but the fricking Federal Government sure as hell better refund me every last penny I put in since I was 16 years old.
Posted by everytrueson
Southern California
Member since Mar 2012
7845 posts
Posted on 6/19/26 at 11:00 pm to
End income taxes and let people do what they want with the extra.
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
74416 posts
Posted on 6/19/26 at 11:10 pm to
I’m not opposed to defense cutting per se, but it’s simply not a major budget buster at this point. In fact, as a percentage pf gdp, it is at near historic lows
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defense spending has in fact declined from half of all federal spending in 1962 to just 13 percent this year. Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, inflation-adjusted defense spending has expanded by only $166 billion—compared to entitlement program spending leaping by $2.6 trillion (after inflation). As a share of the economy, defense spending has been halved since the 1980s, falling from 6 to 3 percent of GDP. Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office projects defense spending will fall below 2.5 percent within three decades—the lowest share of the GDP since the 1930s. At that point, defense would consume just 9 percent of federal spending.
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