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John,
Republicans are pros at talking out of both sides of their mouth. Somehow, they refuse to admit that Joe Biden is the President-elect while at the same time they insist that the incoming Biden administration prioritize the very ideas that voters rejected in droves―cutting Social Security and Medicare.
What Republicans seem to believe is that when they win elections, they should get to do what they want, and when Democrats win, Democrats should do what Republicans want. That’s total crap.
Read Alex’s email about how John Kasich―the media’s favorite Never Trumper―is trying to use tired Republican attacks to convince the Biden administration to cut Social Security and Medicare. Then chip in $7 to fight back!
Thanks,
Michael Phelan
Social Security Works
--ALEX'S EMAIL--
John,
Joe Biden is going to be sworn in as President in January after receiving what will likely be the largest share of eligible voters in 50 years.
But Republicans are already trying to spin this round repudiation of Trump and his party into somehow being interpreted as a mandate to reach out to Republicans and complete their project of destroying Social Security and Medicare. Biden hadn’t been called President-elect for a full hour when former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) went on CNN and declared:
“It’s an opportunity… We have enormous problems with debt, Social Security, Medicare.”
Let’s be clear: 75+ million people did not turn out to vote for a President who will cut Social Security and Medicare. This is the exact same play Republicans ran successfully on President Obama’s agenda, who also took office during a time of unprecedented national crisis.
Ever since the Trump tax scam was first proposed, we have said that Republicans would use their self-imposed deficit as an excuse to cut Social Security and Medicare under the next Democratic administration. That was before we knew that a pandemic would require trillions more in spending.
Social Security Works is mobilizing to make sure that Republican demands of cuts to our earned benefits fall on deaf ears in the Biden-Harris administration. Can you chip in $7 today?
Republicans trapped President Obama into losing a Democratic Congress by convincing the Obama administration and voters into taking their crocodile tears about the debt seriously in 2009 and 2010. By now it’s clear: The Obama administration came in between two Republican administrations that wasted trillions on tax cuts for the super-rich and handouts to military contractors. Republicans are not fundamentally serious.
When Democrats are in office, Republicans suddenly pretend to care about the debt in order to restrain policymaking. And since Republican presidents tend to cause economic catastrophes on their way out the door, this forced austerity mires our economy in lengthy recessions that then get blamed on the Democratic President.
Social Security Works was founded to respond to deficit fearmongering in the early years of the Obama administration. We defeated Wall Street’s anti-Social Security forces then, and we’ll defeat them again. Chip in $7 today!
Thanks,
Alex Lawson
Social Security Works
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