Republicans just said quiet part out loud
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Editor,
Well, it’s clear now: A vote for a Republican is a vote to cut Social Security and Medicare. How do we know this? Because a Republican just said the quiet part out loud.
During Republicans’ second (failed) attempt to install rightwing extremist Jim Jordan as the next House Speaker, Representative Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma) asked his fellow Republicans to remember that Jim Jordan has shown great “courage” in his battle “to get at the real drivers of debt, and we all know what they are. We all know it’s Social Security, we all know it’s Medicare.”
Sorry, Tom Cole, Jim Jordan, Ryan Zinke, and Matt Rosendale, but Social Security and Medicare are both programs that we, the honest, hardworking taxpayers of this country paid for and to which we are, indeed, entitled.
You know what wasn’t paid for? Trump’s so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. This was a $1.9 trillion dollar tax cut that slashed the corporate tax rate, much to the delight of rich corporations and the wealthiest Americans.
Surprise, surprise, Trump’s gift to his billionaire buddies put our country further in debt—by a lot. Oh, my. Whatever shall we do? ask the Republicans in Congress. Should we get rid of Trump’s tax breaks for the wealthy? No way, we can’t do that. Let’s slash Social Security and Medicare instead. Great idea.
Wake up, voters. Republican politicians are in business for themselves and for their wealthy donors only. This includes Ryan Zinke and Matt Rosendale, both of whom voted for insurrectionist Jim Jordan to be Speaker. I guess they admire Jordan’s “courage” in his battle to steal from the middle class and the poor and give to the rich, too.
Dana Henricks
Florence
