November 9, 2016 By Kelly
Let’s have a quick look at what the President-Elect
has had to say about Social Security.
I will save Social Security with more jobs, less waste
I’m going to save Social Security. You have
tremendous waste, fraud and abuse. We have in Social Security thousands of
people over 106 years old. You know they don’t exist. There’s tremendous waste,
fraud and abuse, and we’re going to get it. But we’re not going to hurt the
people who have been paying into Social Security their whole life and then all
of a sudden they’re supposed to get less. We’re bringing jobs back.
Source: 2016 CBS Republican primary debate in South Carolina ,
Feb 13, 2016
I’ll give up my Social Security; leave it to
each person
Q: Chris Christie says
billionaires and people who make and earn far less should no longer get Social
Security, or there should be limits based on income.
A: I’m OK with it. I would be willing to say I
will not get Social Security. As a policy, I would leave it up to the people.
Don’t forget they pay in, and maybe they do well, and maybe some people want
it. But the fact is that there are people that truly don’t need it, and there
are many people that do need it very, very badly.
Source: 2015 Republican two-tiered primary debate on CNN , Sep
16, 2015
[At CPAC, Trump said]:
“As Republicans, if you think you are going to change very substantially for
the worse Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in any substantial way, and at
the same time you think you are going to win elections, it just really is not
going to happen,” Mr. Trump said, adding that polls show that tea partyers are
among those who don’t want their entitlements changed. “What we have to do and
the way we solve our problems it to build a great economy.”
Source: 2013 Conservative Political Action Conf. in Washington
Times , Mar 15, 2013
Social Security faces
a problem: 77 million baby boomers set to retire. Now I know there are some
Republicans who would be just fine with allowing these programs to wither and
die on the vine. The way they see it, Social Security and Medicare are wasteful
“entitlement programs.” But people who think this way need to rethink their
position. It’s not unreasonable for people who paid into a system for decades
to expect to get their money’s worth–that’s not an “entitlement,” that’s
honoring a deal. We as a society must also make an ironclad commitment to
providing a safety net for those who can’t make one for themselves.
Social Security is here to stay. To be sure,
we must reform it, root out the fraud, make it more efficient, and ensure that
the program is solvent.
Same goes for Medicare. Again, people have
lived up to their end of the bargain and paid into the program in good faith.
Of course they believe they’re “entitled” to receive the benefits they paid
for–they are!
Source: Time to Get Tough,
by Donald Trump, p. 68-69 , Dec 5, 2011
The top estimates are
$2,340,000,000 in Medicare fraud over a decade–or 16% of America’s entire
national debt!
Then there’s the disability racket. Did you
know that one out of every 20 people in America now claims disability? That
adds up to $170 billion a year in disability checks. Between 2005 and 2009, it
is estimated that $25 billion were eaten up in fraudulent Social Security
Disability Insurance filings. On and on, scam after scam it goes; as always,
taxpayers are the ones getting stiffed.
Source: Time to Get Tough, by Donald Trump, p. 77 , Dec 5, 2011
I would impose a one-time,
14.25% tax on individuals and trusts with a net worth over $10 million. That
would raise $5.7 trillion in new revenue, which we would use to pay off the
entire national debt. We would save $200 billion in interest payments, which
would allow us to cut taxes on middle-class working families by $100 billion a
year or $1 trillion over ten years. We could use the rest of the savings–$100
billion-to bolster the Social Security Trust Fund. By 2030, we [will have] put
$3 trillion into the trust Fund, which would make it solvent into the next
century. [In addition to shoring up Social Security for the long term], I say
it’s high time to separate Social Security from the general treasury. It is
time to lock-box it and throw away the key.
The rich will scream. Only the top 1% of
people-those with a net worth of $10 million or more-would be affected by my
plan. The other 99% would get deep reductions in heir federal income taxes.
Source: The America We
Deserve, by Donald Trump, p.169-171 & 201 , Jul 2, 2000
The solution to the
Great Social Security crisis couldn’t be more obvious: Allow every American to
dedicate some portion of their payroll taxes to a personal Social Security
account that they could own and invest in stocks and bonds. Federal guidelines
would make sure that your money is diversified, that it is invested in sound
mutual funds or bond funds, and not in emu ranches. The national savings rate
would soar and billions of dollars would be cycled from savings, to productive
assets, to retirement money. And unlike the previous system, the assets in this
retirement account could be left to one’s heirs, used to start a business, or anything
else one desires.
Privatization would be good for all of us.
Directing Social Security funds into personal accounts invested in real assets
would swell national savings, pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into jobs
and the economy. These investments would boost national investment,
productivity, wages, and future economic growth.
Source: The America We
Deserve, by Donald Trump, p.198-199 & 203 , Jul 2, 2000
I would never support
what has to be the craziest ideas in the history of U.S. politics: allowing the
government to invest Social Security retirement funds in the stock market. Not
only would a market downturn spell disaster for millions of retirees, but the
process by which government would choose stocks would also be entirely
political, making lobbyists and other political hacks the new masters of the
universe.
Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p.273-74 , Jul
2, 2000
DONALD J. TRUMP’S VISION FOR VETERANS AFFAIRS
REFORM
·
Ensure our veterans
get the care they need wherever and whenever they need it. No more long drives.
No more waiting backlogs. No more excessive red tape. Just the care and support
they earned with their service to our country.
·
Support the whole
veteran, not just their physical health care, but also by addressing their
invisible wounds, investing in our service members’ post-active duty success,
transforming the VA to meet the needs of 21st century service members, and
better meeting the needs of our female veterans.
·
Make the VA great
again by firing the corrupt and incompetent VA executives who let our veterans
down, by modernizing the VA, and by empowering the doctors and nurses to ensure
our veterans receive the best care available in a timely manner.
Donald J. Trump’s 10 Point Plan to Reform The Department of
Veterans Affairs
1.
Appoint a VA Secretary whose sole purpose will be to serve veterans. Under a
Trump Administration, the needs of D.C. bureaucrats will no longer be
placed above those of our veterans.
2.
Use the powers of the presidency to remove and discipline the federal employees
and managers who have violated the public’s trust and failed to carry out the
duties on behalf of our veterans.
3.
Ask that Congress pass legislation that empowers the Secretary of the VA to
discipline or terminate any employee who has jeopardized the health, safety or
well-being of a veteran.
4.
Create a commission to investigate all the fraud, cover-ups, and wrong-doing
that has taken place in the VA, and present these findings to Congress to spur
legislative reform.
5.
Protect and promote honest employees at the VA who highlight wrongdoing, and
guarantee their jobs will be protected.
6.
Create a private White House hotline, which will be active 24 hours a day
answered by a real person. It will be devoted to answering veteran’s complaints
of wrongdoing at the VA and ensure no complaints fall through the cracks.
7.
Stop giving bonuses to any VA employees who are wasting money, and start
rewarding employees who seek to improve the VA’s service, cut waste, and save
lives.
8.
Reform the visa system to ensure veterans are at the front of the line for
health services, not the back.
9.
Increase the number of mental health care professionals, and allow veteran’s to
be able to seek mental health care outside of the VA.
10.
Ensure every veteran has the choice to seek care at the VA or at a private
service provider of their own choice. Under a Trump Administration, no veteran
will die waiting for service.
Read More on Donald J. Trump’s 10 Point Plan to Reform The
Department of Veterans Affairs, here.
Read Mr. Trump’s
Remarks in Virginia Beach,
at the Veterans of Foreign
Wars National Convention, and to the American Legion.
http://senioramericansassociation.com/2016/11/09/donald-trump-social-security-veterans-affairs/?utm_source=161109SAAMRLCFAR2&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=161109SAAMRLCFAR2
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