"Please take care of us": Low-income Trump voters worry he'll cut benefits they rely on
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Daylight63
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Why do you ask?
volsrock1
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From low-income voters who supported Donald Trump last month, a plea to the president-elect: don’t cut our benefits.
Trump has frequently made grand promises to protect Social Security, Medicare and other benefits. But with a growing list of billionaires on his cabinet, a vow to quell spending and a slim Republican coalition in Congress consisting of some anti-spending hawks, his voters aren’t so sure.
Pennsylvania Trump voter Lori Mosura described the billionaire as “more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich” in an interview with the Washington Post. She lives below the poverty line, receiving $1,200 a month in food stamps and Social Security benefits.
But she has a message for Trump.
“We helped get you in office; please take care of us,” Mosura said, shifting the conversation as though she were speaking to Trump. “Please don’t cut the things that help the most vulnerable.”
Meanwhile, local Republican officials are begging the incoming Trump administration to leave benefits alone. New Castle City Administrator Chris Frye told the Post he expected some benefits tweaks at a federal level, but hoped they wouldn’t be catastrophic.
"Please take care of us": Low-income Trump voters worry he'll cut benefits they rely on
“Please don’t cut the things that help the most vulnerable," a Pennsylvania Trump voter pleaded in an interviewnews.yahoo.com
She lives below the poverty line, receiving $1,200 a month in food stamps and Social Security benefits.
Get a fucking JOB!!!!
Daylight63
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That's the stuff! True compassion. I'm sure you never got any help in anything in your entire life. It is a truly miraculous thing to meet a FULLY SELF MADE PERSON. Someone who didn't get help from ANYONE!
While you're at it, can you also refund me all the tax money I paid to support schools? My wife and I don't have kids and all I do is pay for the crotchfruit of Republicans all the livelong day. I just pay for them to send their kids to school because they don't want to pay full cost.
So I have to pay.
I wish they would get better jobs so I don't have to pay for them.
volsrock1
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Receiving help is not a career!
Daylight63
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There aren't as many leaches on the system as Conservatives and Right Wingers see. In fact most Red states end up taking more money in federal aid than they pay in.
So it is kind of a career. If you're in a Red State.
ThatOwlWoman
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From low-income voters who supported Donald Trump last month, a plea to the president-elect: don’t cut our benefits.
Trump has frequently made grand promises to protect Social Security, Medicare and other benefits. But with a growing list of billionaires on his cabinet, a vow to quell spending and a slim Republican coalition in Congress consisting of some anti-spending hawks, his voters aren’t so sure.
Pennsylvania Trump voter Lori Mosura described the billionaire as “more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich” in an interview with the Washington Post. She lives below the poverty line, receiving $1,200 a month in food stamps and Social Security benefits.
But she has a message for Trump.
“We helped get you in office; please take care of us,” Mosura said, shifting the conversation as though she were speaking to Trump. “Please don’t cut the things that help the most vulnerable.”
Meanwhile, local Republican officials are begging the incoming Trump administration to leave benefits alone. New Castle City Administrator Chris Frye told the Post he expected some benefits tweaks at a federal level, but hoped they wouldn’t be catastrophic.
"Please take care of us": Low-income Trump voters worry he'll cut benefits they rely on
“Please don’t cut the things that help the most vulnerable," a Pennsylvania Trump voter pleaded in an interview
That poor deluded woman. What a sad, sad fool she and millions more of her ilk are.
ThatOwlWoman
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What a rich vein of irony, eh?
Tbird19482
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Well the MAGA got what they wanted so if Trump and his yes men cut federal programs and they get hurt it is what they voted for.
We will have to wait and see what happens, I just hope not to many people that really need help don't get hurt too bad.
Guno צְבִי
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Social Security retirement benefits are not an entitlement program. They are paid for by employees during their working lifetime and an equal amount by their employers (or the self-employment tax if self-employed).
cawacko
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Actually they are an entitlement program according to the government. The reason the government calls it an entitlement program is because if you qualify (you have worked and paid into it) you are entitled to the benefits.
People tend to think of the word entitled as something not earned and thus often get offended by that term. The S.S. trust fund will run out in eight years or so and if nothing is done then benefits will be cut by some 20% - 25%. If we decide to do something it will likely include means testing and raising taxes. Raising taxes on the rich, if they don't get it back, actually makes S.S. more of an entitlement program. It's why you've had certain subset of progressives against it (means testing) for that reason.
He doesn’t, that’s the point, States that benefit the most from social services and Federal assistance are generally Red States, yet they overwhelmingly voted for him.
ThatOwlWoman
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From what I've seen of MAGATs both on line and in real life, they always think that someone else will get hurt, not them. They want welfare and food stamps and Medicaid and other aid removed from those lazy (non-white) urban dwellers, and those filthy brown invaders (who don't get it anyways despite what Fox tells them). They hope for others to feel pain, not realizing that they will too.
Let me post an excellent DU meme here.
cawacko
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Ok? I feel like I'm missing something here. There have been multiple articles from progressive sites (that end up getting posted here) claiming that Trump and the incoming Republican Congress are basically Libertarians who are about to dismantle everything in the government - and they haven't even taken office yet.
But it's the same with every new Republican administration the claims that liberals make how we'll take away everything yet somehow the government continues to grow (and ironically it's liberal cities where the cost of living is the highest, we have the most homeless, we have housing shortages etc. etc.) but everything who votes Republican is garbage, trailer trash, uneducated etc. (even more ironic now that more white people are voting Democratic and more minorities Republican.)