Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

So true. The best lawyers are staying away, knowing that getting close to Trump can destroy their career. That's a high price to pay to represent this president - normally a high demand job.

Rasmussen has a well-known Republican tilt.

10 points? Uh uh.

Can we get some names?

So do the American voters. So all in all it results in accurate poling results.

Quote Baldimo:

Social Security has provided an income for older people since 1940. Before that, people either had the money on hand when they retired, or-way too often-were on charity or living on the street, dying too early because they couldn't afford medical care. It was an advance in living standards in this country, one which is to be expected as the industrial society took hold and increased the national wealth steadily. You and your conservative colleagues are perfectly happy to see the older people go back to the way it was in the early 1900s, forced to live in back alleys until bad health caught up with them and their misery is ended.

Who are you fooling? Your real goal is to back to the Depression days and if you are old and poor, tough luck gramps.

The problem with the elderly is that they let the loudmouths on Fox and the radio get them all worried about who's going to the public bathroom with them and similar trifles, and no attention to the fact that the GOP has been working to pull the financial rug out from underneath them for years and yet the older voters keep voting them in.

Quote Baldimo:

Every plan needs some adjustment over time, as Social Security and Medicare have been adjusted over time to meet the goals they were developed to address. However, you and the other conservatives do not want to address the goals of having some modest retirement income guaranteed and health care for all the elderly, you want to turn it into a welfare system for only the very poorest and tell everyone else they're on their own. That's not adjusting it,that's downgrading Social Security and Medicare from universal insurance plans to a welfare system for the poor, which we can count on the conservatives to try to cut in the next budget.

Quote Baldimo:

Seniors are perfectly entitled to voice their opinions on social issues, Democrats have always stood for that. But seniors should start prioritizing their needs when they go to the voting booth. If they are consevatives and they insist they don't like interracial marriage, they have the right to say so. If they don't like legalized marijuana, they have the right to say so. But they also have to stop and think which is the more important-interracial marriage, legalized marijuana, or the fact that the GOP wants to take that Social Security check you've been contributing towards for decades and deny you getting it because you're not poor enough. Same thing with your Medicare.

Most people, when they stop and think things through, realize that maintaining their financial well-being and medical care are more important than who is marrying who. The goal of conservatives-disappointingly successful so far-is to get the seniors so stirred up about relatively trivial social issues that they ignore the Re;publicans are getting ready to stick a knife in their back-if fact, they have already tried under Bush 43.

Quote oralloy:


The trouble with that is the Social Security system payouts depend on the the income coming in from people who are presently working. As Bush 41 said, (father of Bush 43 who didn't seem to get his father's message), it's an agreement between generations. The retired people now were paying for the older generation when they were working, now they need the payouts from the working generation today.

To take even a small portion of those payouts and divert them to private accounts would send the system spiralling downhill in short order. They try to call it a "reform" but it really is a dismantling.

And the calls for "means testing" are another disguise, for it moves a government funded retirement system that everyone paid into and had the right to look forward to into just another welfare system-the people who paid into it will never see the benefit unless they are dirt poor when they retire.

Shortly after that, we can expect conservatives to make cuts and move to eliminate the retirement system entirely. End result = old people in cardboard boxes.

So that's why Democrats and independents both outnumber Republicans and why Hillary got 2.8 million more votes than Trump. And why the country consistently hates his agenda?

Killary's votes were most likely illegals voting in every corrupt major city in this country. Nice try, no cigar.

Trump has had more than a year to offer proof and there still is none. NONE. You may believe in conspiracy theories like that. The American lpeople have more sense.

Trump's Family Trips Cost Taxpayers Nearly As Much In A Month As Obama's Cost In A Whole Year
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/02/22/trumps-family-trips-cost-taxpayers-nearly-as-much-in-a-month-as-obamas-cost-in-a-whole-year/

Rebecca Dallet beats Michael Screnock in race for Wisconsin Supreme Court
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/03/rebecca-dallet-beats-michael-screnock-race-wisconsin-supreme-court/477978002/

This is the first time in 23 years that a liberal candidate who wasn't an incumbent won a seat on the high court in Wisconsin.

Another welcomed sign of the impending end of the GOP and their lies.

Vote BLUE!!!!

I hope this will be the trend all across our country.

People forget that WI has not voted Republican for president since 1984. It has always been a blue state. The turnout for the election was less than 20%. That a Republican is governor is the result of Democratic policies failing and one liberal judge will not fix that.

Impeach Republican governor of WI.

Why? Juvenile prattle is juvenile prattle.

They already tried to get rid of him in a special election, it failed. How has he effected your life, do you live there?