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🚨NEWS: Vivek Ramaswamy states he would vote to "significantly constrain and attach work requirements to most of the welfare state," explicitly highlighting Social Security and Medicaid.

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Social security is not a “welfare state” you cluless billionaire. We paid for it and expect it when we retire. It’s incredibly popular and this just shows how out of touch the oligarchs are with normal people.

They eliminated pensions and sold us on 401ks we never get to fulfill because we get paid off as we get older, then want to take away the public benefits we paid into for most of our careers to for pretty much force everyone to work until we die, in debt.

Oh yeah, let's make those 90-year-olds in Florida get out of their assisted living facilities and work for their Social Security and Medicare benefits; the benefits they *earned* from working for decades So, working? Doing what? For whom? Moron

That's the real numbers the US has to realise before it's too late. Experts on these numbers say it's already too late to fix the US debt. Trump is just pumping harder on the gas to make the disaster even more disastrous.

You need no further evidence to see the truth in this in what President Clinton did: Balanced the budget and left with a ZERO deficit! 90% of the deficit since then is on R's shoulders, with 30% of that by Trump in a little under 6 years (over $12 trillion dollars and counting).

Social Security is NOT welfare when in your paycheck there's a % deducted as contribution for that purpose. SS is like an annuity. Same with Medicare, like health insurance, which we still pay after retirement. We ALL pay/paid into it & it's not an opt in or out but, for the good of all, mandatory.

These ignorant plutocrats have no idea how the "welfare state" even operates. They constantly confuse Medicaid with Medicare. They confuse means-tested programs with social insurance. They don't even know that the only means-tested cash assistance programs that we have nationwide are TANF and SSI.

Elderly people. Disabled people. Children whose parent died. These are not the “welfare state,” Viv. These are people who have worked hard their entire lives-paying into their retirement savings-which is Social Security. These are the profoundly disabled & kids whose mom or dad. You are a ghoul.

Social Security is OUR money. Fuck this guy and the magic carpet he flew in on. I retired RamalamaDingDong, and I've got time to kick your ass from Ohio to Tennessee and leave you there, but you will never see me working again

Vivek Ramaswamy wants to attach work requirements to Medicaid and "welfare" ... *and to Social Security*. So, now if you retire, in order to get Social Security ... you will have to work. Next up, they will impose means testing, so no pay ... because you continue to work to meet requirements...

I DID work for Social Security jackass. I paid into it with every single paycheck from work since I was 15 years old!

Always willing to give welfare to the rich. Republicans will steal from the poor to give to the rich. After all, they get some of it back in bribes and political contributions.

Here we go again. Another billionaire running to control government is telling Americans that a vulnerable group is stealing their money. DOGE did not find the overwhelming fraud it was looking for, and these billionaire a-holes have taken 7 trillion from their unnecessary tax breaks. EAT THE RICH

Social security is he nuts. We work all our lives and Pay into social security to receive our monthly dividend Also he’s just plain nuts on all of it

Calling Social Security the welfare state should be enough to get him not only not elected, but thrown out of the state. What a disgusting piece of scum. Doesn’t he know anything about real life? 

Work requirements for Social Security? Vivek can f*ck all the way off. I was laid off close to retirement and wish there were jobs to be had. Obviously he’s oblivious to the state of the economy and the mass layoffs so that mega corps can dump more money into AI.

Social security and medicare is already paid for by working, medicaid comes out of your check separately as well although most people on it are pregnant women, children, and the disabled. Maybe all politicians should pay fully for everything they get housing, healthcare, food, travel, and security.

Seems politicians all think they are royalty and deserve special privilege because they're elected, even though being elected is to represent the people, so everything they get like pay and benefits should also reflect those they represent, maybe we'll start getting legislation that helps us all.

Im about to into a shade of racism here but please bare with it - Indians of wealth - those who are right wing and really dont care about others - im confused here - england subjugated you, made you feel less than because of the shade of your skin. Your got independence / split your country into 2.

You fight with your own people based on a fairytale - yet you come to other countries or born from parents who did - and some of you those right wing asshats join the whites who still think your less than and would deport you or worse. Now I get it money can lighten skin shade - but why would

You want to be the token brown nazi? I know this was long winded just to say- here asshat youre not white and being used - wake the fuck up. This isn't just Indians, its Blacks, Hispanics, and the remaining Asians - Chinese, Koreans, Phillipinoes. I guess im blinded by my whiteness.

If you're a billionaire, as Vivek Ramaswamy is, alleged to be worth $3.5 BILLION, then by definition, you are a greedy hoarding person unfit to govern and help the good men and women and children of Ohio. You are also, in all likelihood, corrupt.

it's always guys like this who think other people are underserving of even survival (when they themselves are so obviously superior)...Ramasmarmy is a Fascist and the worst kind of bottom-feeder...

Coporate welfare How about making corporations pay taxes? Minimum wage has not been increased federally in 16 years 16 years, no Minimum wage increase Let that sink in. America the great country, can not pay it's citizens a living wage Pathetic

republicans are always trying to sell you on the idea that it makes sense for you to buy the same full-course dinner you always had but without the potage, half the entree, a cheaper cut of roast, no entremets and they get to spit in your dessert... also you still pay the full price as before...

Take a look at his ties to PharmaBro Martin Shkreli… You all remember THAT asshole right? Vivek is that guy on steroids!! #Daraprim Google it…

Attaching work requirements to Social Security, which is a retirement fund, is both stupid and evil. Anyone advocating for that should be beaten by all present and then barred from public life.

They better not be more constraines than Mitch McConnell's requirements or Mike Johnson's work requirements for the House 🤬 $175K salaries for only 90-ish days of work

Does he want my nearly 82 year-old Dad, who was forced to retire due to dementia, back in operating rooms doing anesthesia in his current mental state in order to keep his Social Security coming? That seems unwise.

Of course he did say that enacting Medicare was a mistake earlier this year. So he's not so hot on the elderly who will still probably vote for him in at least near-majority numbers.