(Washington Stand) Running on empty — and hounded by unpopularity — Democrats have latched onto the hysteria over Medicaid and Social Security cuts like a lifeline in a political hurricane. Of course, stoking panic over Americans’ benefits is something the Left has done effectively for decades, but now, with Donald Trump bulldozing billions of dollars in government programs, they see a unique opportunity to make the fear stick — whether or not there’s any truth to their claims.
Like so much of the Democrats’ messaging, the idea that Republicans want to strip away grandma’s health care is built on a house of lies. It ignores the very inconvenient fact that our entitlement programs have ballooned well beyond their original purpose and are saddled with billions upon billions of dollars in duplication, fraud, waste, and abuse (taxpayer-funded sex changes, anyone?). And that, not legal citizens’ hard-earned health care and retirement dollars, is what the GOP is targeting. (Read More)
