The White House says,
that they want Congress to pass a clean debt ceiling increase.
No negotiations with Republicans at all, is that a mistake?
>> Corrupt Democratic senator Joe Manchin says that it is a mistake to avoid
negotiating with Republicans on a must pass debt ceiling bill,
that really they are gonna vote in favor of raising the debt ceiling.
Because he think we really should take a look at Social Security and
Medicare, some of the spending, there are some issues there.
So in other words,
he wants to aid in a bet Republicans in gutting Social Security.
And today the New York Times came out with a report explaining what his
tactic will be.
He says this, we're going to have to bring a group of Democrats
together that is willing to work and meet Kevin McCarthy halfway,
meaning House speaker Kevin McCarthy.
So look, I think that that statement alone is so
telling Jenk, because it ain't just about Manchin.
It's about the corporate capture of the Democratic Party and how it's such
a handful of Democrats who are willing to gut social spending programs.
There's a bunch of them in the senate alone, and he wants to get them together,
and he's like what, we already got a coalition working in the House.
So, I wanna build that in the Senate too, because both parties wanna gut your
Social Security and Medicare, that's the reality of the situation.
>> All right, so look, there are things that are super obvious, but
we have to state them as if they're dramatic news.
Because a lot of the establishment in this country, mainstream folks,
good folks a lot of them got brainwashed by establishment media.
So they believe things that are remotely true, they're hilariously false.
So in this case, all these senators take literally millions of dollars from donors,
the donors have very specific requests.
In fact, when Trump got into office this is in my book, there's quotes from donors
saying you better pass tax cuts, otherwise we're going to stop donating to.
That is a quid pro quo, they're saying this is exactly what we want.
We gave you a couple of million dollars now we want a couple of billion dollars
back or in that case the tax cuts were a couple of trillion dollars back.
And they say it out loud in public, they're quoted in the press, okay.
So they want redistribution of wealth to the very top and
they literally paid for it.
And a lot of mainstream media will almost all of it will completely ignore that
fact, but if they ever touch it at all, they will never mention Democrats.
So now wait a minute, I hate Republicans and
I don't want a Republican like Trump to win, but I'm being honest with you guys.
The media loves conservative Democrats, loves them.
And so when they see Joe Manchin, they won't tell you the obvious truth,
that guy takes bribes for a living.
So when he is told to redistribute wealth, it's not just tax cuts, they need
the money from somewhere, otherwise the the government's gonna go broke.
So they're gonna take it from you, so
they're coming to take our Social Security and Medicare.
And what did they get called in return for that, it could be instead of being called
the monsters and crooks that they are, the media tells you they are moderate.
Well, that sounds so reasonable, doesn't it?
Well, here's moderate Joe Manchin looking to rob you of all the money you work for
your whole life, what a moderate position.
>> There is no reason for Democrats to negotiate with
Republicans on raising the debt ceiling, no reason at all.
You wanna know why, because it's a must pass bill.
If they don't raise the debt ceiling, the global economy and
their stock portfolios collapse, they don't want that, okay.
And so even mention himself in the context of that New York Times piece says,
I think we all know we're going to vote for the debt ceiling, okay.
Because he wants to cut spending, that actually benefits the American people.
And what's so gross is how he lies to our faces, he insults us.
So same interview, I wanna go back to his conversation with Dana Bash because,
Social Security and Medicare came up, and look at how he lies.
And I'll tell you why he lies,
I'll provide the receipts to prove that he's lying let's watch.
>> In my State of West Virginia 60% of the people that are retired right now,
live with social security and Medicare.
To scare the bejesus out I'm thinking they're gonna be there cuts on the line or
you're gonna decimate those two, that's not gonna happen.
Take that off the board right now and look at ways that we have wasteful spending
that we can be held accountable and responsible.
>> He wants to cut Social Security and Medicare,
he doesn't say it there because he's like, the people of West Virginia,
same people who would have benefited from a minimum wage hike.
Same people who would have benefited from the social spending provisions
within the build back better agenda that were defeated by Joe Manchin, okay.
He claims that he cares about them and
they wanna maintain their Social Security except,
just a few weeks ago in a conversation with Maria Bartiromo on Fox business.
He was pretty transparent on what he wants to cut, let's watch.
>> Let's take the trust funds whether Medicare,
Social Security or highway Trust, you can't let those go defunct as far as.
And what we're saying is we have a trust act, and
we would put different committees,
bipartisan bicameral committees together to look at each one of the trust.
And come up with solutions of how you fix it.
We're not getting rid of anything and you can't scare the bejesus out of people
saying we're gonna get rid of Social Security, we're gonna privatize,
that's not gonna happen.
But we should be able to solidify, so the people have worked and
earned it now they're gonna get it.
>> So something I want you guys to be aware of and
pay close attention to because it's gonna be a talking point.
I've already seen Republicans do it and now mansions doing the same thing, okay?
They try to pretend like, no we're not gonna cut Social Security and
Medicare, we're not gonna privatize it.
We're just gonna do things like raise the retirement age,
which by the way is cutting Social Security, okay?
It is putting off your retirement,
because they wanna cut Social Security and avoid raising taxes.
Right now,
the wealthy don't pay the same percentage in Social Security tax as you do, okay.
After a certain amount of income, they stop getting taxed for
Social Security all together.
You can do if you're really worried about funding the Social Security program,
lift that tax cap entirely, it only benefits the rich.
And the rich are terrified of that happening.
Which is why the rich lobby politicians like Joe Manchin and
members of the GOP, to get the retirement age up even higher.
Right now it's 67 they want it up to 70, that is a form of cutting Social Security,
don't let them lie to you.
>> The minute you hear we're looking to strengthen Social Security or fix it,
those are code words for cut it.
Now you say, well Jane, how do I know to trust you,
I mean you say one thing I just saw imagine say another thing,
that he's looking to fix Social Security, that sounds like maybe he might add to it.
Well, there's a thing called facts, they have to actually write bills and
proposals and they have to put them forward.
And the proposals he's talking about is to raise the retirement age,
and when you do that.
So let's take one year, right.
Hey, the retirement age is 67 now they move into 68,
what happens in that extra year?
You do not get the money that you would have normally gotten,
that is tens of thousands of dollars.
When they move into 70 years, their proposals are,
it depends on your situation, but 50,000 or
more, they're literally stealing from you.
That is money you put in, your whole working life.
It's not their money, it's called an entitlement because you are literally
entitled to it, cuz you put it in through your taxes.
Now Joe Manchin says, I wanna rob you, I wanna take that $50,000 and
put it in the donor's pockets.
And every son of a bit reporter goes, he's a moderate,
he's looking to strengthen Social Security.
By the way there is a proposal to actually strengthen Social Security by adding to
it, it's a proposal and I told you about it being pushed by Bernie Sanders.
They're saying hey, you know what if you actually allow the rich to get taxed on
Social Security further, it'll solve and we don't have to lower the retirement age.
We don't have to cut, we don't have to do any of that stuff,
in fact we can add to it.
And good news they pulled it.
What the polling indicates, over 70% of Americans are in favor of that proposal,
even what is clarified to them, that it would raise taxes on the rich.
They say yes, I wanted more than seven out of ten Americans,
it has a 0% chance of passing.
Do you wanna know why, because almost all of our politicians are corrupt.
They all take bribes, and the media is paid to trick you and
to lie to you into pretending that they're not taking bribes.
And that they're not redistributing your money,
to the richest people in the country.
>> Final thing Manchin, much like members of the Republican Party, keep
claiming that they're so concerned with out of control spending and what, me too.
Me Too, I am concerned about out of control spending.
I mean we could look at our defense spending,
which wastes a lot of money on all types of military weaponry.
In some cases, military weaponry that doesn't even work, okay.
We've spent millions if not billions on that.
But, if they're worried about that because of
national security concerns which I'm not buying for a second,
why don't we take a look at other ways that the government wastes money?
The Environmental and
Energy Study Institute reported that direct subsidies to the fossil-fuel
industry totaled 20 billion per year with 80% going toward oil and gas.
Which is weird, because Chevron reported $72 billion 2022 profits,
do they really need those subsidies?
>> No guys, this is not negotiable.
You understand what they're doing, and
it's not theoretical it's happening right now.
They're taking $20 billion dollars of our money, you work so
hard and then you pay those taxes and it's really painful.
Remember the rich pay almost no taxes some of them, not all of them.
But the reason why Biden rare good move that he did we increased money for
the IRS to do audits of the rich.
Above ten million, It's like 0.01% get audited,
I don't have the facts right in front of me but we did the story before.
It is comical,
they purposely cheat on their taxes cuz they know they can get away with it.
You have to pay those subsidies, to the richest companies in the world.
$72 billion dollars in profit in one year is unheard of, for
one for one oil company, and you had to pay higher gas prices.
They took all the money home, and they said now add insult to injury,
give me 20 billion more from the average man.
And sons of bitches like Joe Manchin, helped them rob you blind like that.
And sons of bitches in mainstream media go, no he's not robbing,
there are not bribe still no, they're not crooks.
No, they're moderates,
this is the moderate reasonable position to rob you blind.
No, I've had it with mainstream media, I know most of them are totally clueless and
they don't know anything about politics or news.
Go get a different job, I'm begging you to go get a different job.
I'm sick of your corruption, stop robbing Americans, that's what you do every day.
And the media is the getaway driver to that robbery.