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DoBW

(2,763 posts) Fri Jan 3, 2025, 07:52 PM Jan 2025

"social security and medicare are not entitlement programs. They are earned benefits"

Keep your hands off Social Security and Medicare.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social) 2025-01-03T21:46:29.644Z

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H. Jeffries lights it up after speaker vote [View all] DoBW Jan 2025 OP

He only hears what trmp wants him to hear... spanone Jan 2025 #2

if you look at the video NJCher Jan 2025 #5

I scream that every time bamagal62 Jan 2025 #3

Better at lying. That's for sure. brush Jan 2025 #4

And we have to fix that - IMMEDIATELY. calimary Jan 2025 #8

This: soldierant Jan 2025 #11

It *is* an entitlement because we are entitled to it. Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2025 #13

Yeah. We're entitled to these benefits. LisaM Jan 2025 #6

The word has negative connotations now, but Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2025 #12

Small business owners certainly understand that they pay double SS Hope22 Jan 2025 #7

An entitlement is not a freebie. You earned it. valleyrogue Jan 2025 #15

They aren't means tested. You earned them you are entitled to them. valleyrogue Jan 2025 #14