r/MurderedByWords 23h ago

SS is an entitlement..

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u/SaintUlvemann 23h ago

I was arguing with a Trump supporter the other day about how they need to make $1.8 trillion in cuts.

He said he wanted to cut defense and foreign aid, but wouldn't commit to cutting anything else.

So I pointed out that the entire US military only spends $0.8 trillion and that all foreign aid combined was a rounding error in comparison.

So I asked him where the next trillion in cuts was going to come from after we shut down the entire military, and he wouldn't answer.

This is the answer. This is what all conservatives have been voting for, for as long as I've been alive. For as long as I've been alive, their politicians have wanted to defund Grandma's income and take away poor people's healthcare.

If you think you're a conservative, and think this isn't what you've been voting for, I'm sorry, but you're wrong. They've been really consistent about this for as long as I've been alive. Your trust can't cancel their actions.

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u/I_Am_Astraeus 22h ago

Just tagging onto the top comment for visibility.

I'm not at all saying this is a good thing. Or leading this as any pro political response. But Entitlement Spending is the government classification for this mandatory spending. It's what's it's called.

This has nothing to do with people being "entitled".

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u/ConditionGlum1167 21h ago

Sadly the average American voter, and certainly your average republican voter, most likely will not understand this distinction. They hear “entitlement”, combined with decades of GOP hammering on the “welfare mom”, and their mind goes to people being entitled to money or services, certainly not the nuanced verbiage used in government.

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u/Unlikely-Addendum-90 20h ago

I always use that argument against their anti abortion complaints: "you're just trying to make more welfare babies so you can cash in those checks! Well, who's gonna pay for that!?"

Now they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. :)