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In reply to the discussion: THANK YOU BERNIE SANDERS for speaking the blatant truth when so many won't [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)about SS and Medicare which is a passive smear.
No, Sanders is not the only one, or even the first one of many who have called this particular lie out that "Democrats want to "destroy your Social Security" and are "going to ruin your Medicare" in the Montana speech.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/us/politics/fact-check-trump-medicare-social-security-.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/12/anatomy-trump-rally-percent-claims-are-false-misleading-or-lacking-evidence/?utm_term=.1edce019e13b
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/raucous-trump-rally-filled-with-familiar-attacks-false-statements
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/405809-trump-is-wrong-dems-are-fighting-to-save-medicare-and-social-security
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/sep/06/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrongly-says-social-security-and-medi/
Nor is Sanders the first or only one of many who have called out Paul Ryan's statements from December on "entitlement reform" or stated the things that Sanders is saying about the GOP tax cuts for the wealthy:
This is part of the starve the beast value system that the Republicans have, Pelosi said on Dec. 21. They do not believe in governance, so any public role in the health and well-being of the American people is on their hit list.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-26/congress-s-divisions-between-parties-chambers-crimp-2018-agenda
Pelosi: GOP Tax Plan Is "Simply Theft," Unrepentant Greed Of "Permanent Plutocracy" Is A Moral Obscenity (From last December)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/12/19/pelosi_gop_tax_plan_is_simply_theft_their_unrepentant_greed_is_a_moral_obscenity.html
https://www.democraticleader.gov/newsroom/32818/
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/12/20/schumer_when_middle-class_see_their_taxes_go_up_theyll_know_republicans_are_to_blame.html
https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/kaine-statement-on-passage-of-republican-tax-bill