Cliff Schecter Talks Social Security On The Young Turks
June 24, 2022
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as posted by the channelFebruary 2012: In this old school clip, on the February 16th episode of The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur, Cliff Schecter discusses Social Security.
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six of the top 10 uh net receivers of federal funds are red states i think two are blue two are swing states as you pointed out red states receive a lot more money and here's the thing they know the people there they know social security is a great program they know medicare is a great problem they know the earned income tax credit started by ronald reagan by the way is a great program the difference is we know that too but you and i don't go around saying how terrible government is oh get the government off of our backs and keep the government away from us and the rest this is what they do meanwhile they of course stand up and they realize i mean i saw a poll by marist that said 76 of tea party republicans didn't want their social security cut maybe they were that guy holding up the sign saying you know keep the government's hands off my social security or but but i mean in the end they realize these are great programs you and i realize the great programs the difference is they're hypocrites about it and we're not all right strong words katie last word i wouldn't say that they think they're great programs they are dependent on those programs which is the downfall of big government all right well how does 76 percent of tea partiers support social security then i don't understand they don't know they don't support it they think that they should get the money they paid back in and because the federal government has squandered it on programs that don't really matter and using it on things that other than social security they feel like they're entitled to the money they were promised
what would those things be like a war in iraq for example that george bush supported were those things that would be like tax cuts for the top 1 percent
needed things we spent our money on absolutely we should spend it on social security and medicare where it should be i i i was i think katie was supposed to have the last word there i think i think i was but that's okay and in fact i have a statistic i want to share but i know i said katie as the last one
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