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DownriverDem

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16. Coming up next

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Fri Feb 9, 2018, 10:19 AM

Feb 2018

The repubs will be coming after Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid next. How many folks even know that seniors in nursing homes go on Medicaid after they have spent down their assets. Are we going to see old folks kicked out of nursing homes? The visuals are frightening.

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Chris Hayes: GOP run huge deficits to block Democrats from expansions of social welfare programs [View all] muriel_volestrangler Feb 2018 OP

And add to the deficit duforsure Feb 2018 #1

So called welfare programs Timmygoat Feb 2018 #2

Republicans never wanted Social Security or Medicare from the start, whathehell Feb 2018 #8

USA always been progressive, liberal, until RepubliCON voter suppress., gerrymander & dirty tricks. Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2018 #12

Yes, FDR's New Deal policies ruled until the Reagan administration whathehell Feb 2018 #17

I consider them, and speak of them, as EARNED BENEFITS. PatrickforO Feb 2018 #13

One other thought. The reason for the opposition from radical PatrickforO Feb 2018 #14

Standard strategy since 1980, since conservative Hortensis Feb 2018 #3

Yep, Reagun was the beginning of the end of the GOP BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #10

Love that way of looking at it. :) Hortensis Feb 2018 #11

Corporate Welfare is the GOP's M.O. Deb Feb 2018 #4

Search: 2 Santas Theory zaj Feb 2018 #5

Here you go TuxedoKat Feb 2018 #6

C'mon Chris! They've been doing this since, oh, ... JHB Feb 2018 #7

and don't forget NewJeffCT Feb 2018 #9

RepubliCONs are Borrow-and-Spend. Defense money is dead money. Rich park tax cuts in real estate/art Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2018 #15

Coming up next DownriverDem Feb 2018 #16