Trump has never voted on an entitlement. What entitlements does he defend. Can you name them? You and I both know social security is not an entitlement.
Some people do consider SS an entitlement. I'll just call it a Ponzi-scheme.
http://www.cato.org/blog/trump-should-do-homework-entitlementsThe Washington Post today discusses how presidential candidate Donald Trump is dismissing the need for major entitlement reforms. The paper noted, “… leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump railed against proposals to end or significantly change Medicare.”
Trump said, “You can’t get rid of Medicare. It’d be a horrible thing to get rid of. It actually works. You get rid of the fraud, waste and abuse — it works.”
Mr. Trump seems sure that it’s easy to fix Washington with tough talk and a little elbow grease. I admire his confidence, but he needs to do his homework on the entitlement programs.
Because the Obama administration has buried its head in the sand on the entitlement crisis, the next administration will face very ugly budget projections when it comes into office in 2017. The chart below shows the explosive CBO projections for the three largest entitlements. Over the next two presidential terms, spending is expected to grow 62 percent on Social Security, 73 percent on Medicare, and 45 percent on Medicaid.
Without needed cuts, Social Security will become a $1 trillion program in 2018, and Medicare will top $1 trillion by 2022. These programs are only “working” to put the next generation of taxpayers into the poor house.
As for “fraud, waste and abuse” in the health programs, the cause is same as the cause of the explosive growth. That is, the open-ended and top-down structure of the programs that funnels vast funds to doctors and hospitals. The way to slow the rapid growth and cut the waste is to move to a system of consumer-driven health care based on individual vouchers, savings, and competition.
Did the framers of the Constitution want us giving foreign aid? Obamacare? Departments of Education, Environment, HHS or HUD? Where are the checks and balances? National debt nearly 20 trillion dollars.
Foriegn aid dates back to WWI. Housing aid dates back to the U.S. Housing Act of 1937. HHS dates back to the Social Security Act of 1935. In short these are not new issues and the people who argued and fought for these things are long dead. It is not Rubio's fault. It is not Cruz's fault, It is not the Establishment's fault.
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The vacuum is between the ears of those who are complacent and don't want to make America better.
Why must you go there? Have we not had a pleasant conversation? Do you really believe I want a worse America for my children? Do you think anyone posting here doesn't want to make America great?
I believe Trump will be a terrible President, but I do not believe you think that. I do not think you are purposefully ruining the future.
"L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés ou désirs" - Hell is full of good intentions and wishes - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux