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Ok. So he wants to cut spending and also keep his party's donors happy. That second constraint prevents many kinds of cuts, but not all of them. My point was
by mac01021 9y ago
Ok. So he wants to cut spending and also keep his party's donors happy. That second constraint prevents many kinds of cuts, but not all of them.
My point was that he's not malicious, merely apathetic. Hurting people by cutting their benefits is not the goal. Cutting spending by cutting their benefits is the goal.
- emodendroket 9y agoAnd I'm supposed to believe that his donors have no interest in an employer-friendly labor market? Questions about how to spend money are rarely neutral, value-free ones. To put it another way, George W. Bush wildly expanded spending with his Medicare Part D program, but that was supported by the Republicans because it achieved other goals (the main one was ensuring no cost control was built into the measure, since it was suspected that if Democrats passed a similar measure it would allow negotiation to drive down costs). Is this the move of a group whose primary concern is fiscal discipline? https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/medicare-part-d-republican-budget-busting/ https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/medicare-part-...