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The only issue here is that Biden is such an imperfect vessel for campaigning to protect Social Security and Medicare.  He’s had a long career’s worth of sound bites about potential cuts to these programs, and he negotiated the Grand Bargain with McConnell during Obama’s tenure that would have in fact actually made cuts to them.
Not saying he hasn’t changed his mind since then, but  his past history does dilute the effectiveness of his messaging
“We must commit to not raising the debt ceiling without a concrete plan to cap spending and operate under a budget that balances in 10 years or less— and hold to it,” Reps. Scott Perry (Pa), Chip Roy (Texas), Dan Bishop (N.C.), Andrew Clyde (Ga.), and others wrote.

Funny, I can't remember a time in the last 40 years when Republicans could 1) balance a budget and 2) meet that budget, but I certainly remember them doing economic damage with austerity recently.
Edit: The other amusing part is they constantly want to reduce spending, but never want to reduce costs of things they're buying, and never take inflation into account. Everything costs more from one year to the next, so it would make sense that the budget would have to go up commensurately. Spend less, get less. >

The way Ive always seen it is: They want deregulation  for anything making them money, regulation for anything costing them money.
The only time it changes, is when others start making money. Then it's time to "close loopholes" and "cut the fat" >

People who want a balanced federal budget are confused about what public debt represents. >

They also think household debt is like government debt >

The never ending cycle. Dems fix, Reps trash and then blame Dems for the consequences of their actions. Rinse and repeat. Maybe highlighting the cycle of BS is a start to….oh never mind. >

Dems better be SHOUTING FROM THE ROOF TOPS every day about the crazy GQP.
Get the message out.  Again and again.  GOP is coming for your SS checks and your Medicare.  The retired will die in the gutters (no money, no homes, no healthcare). >

The GOP playbook they’ve used for decades to trick Americans. Threats from Republicans over the debt ceiling and government shutdowns are here like clockwork.
“The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.” – Jude Wanniski, March 6, 1976
“The stock market is falling, in part a reaction to GOP threats to shut down the government: it’s all part of their plan.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last week warned us that the GOP is about to use Jude Wanniski’s “Two Santa Clauses” fraud again to damage Biden’s economy and our standing in the world. And, sure enough, Mitch McConnell verified it when he said last week there would be “zero” Republican votes to raise the debt ceiling.
Yellen responded yesterday by telling The Wall Street Journal that if the Republicans force a shutdown of the U.S. government like they did to Obama in 2011, “We would emerge from this crisis a permanently weaker nation.” But the GOP is adamant: they have their strategy and they’re sticking to it.
Here’s how it works, laid it out in simple summary:
First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.
This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”
Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.
This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own social safety net programs and even Social Security, thus shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus right in the face.
And, sure enough, here we are now with a Democrat in the White House. Following their Two Santas strategy, Republicans are again squealing about the national debt and refusing to raise the debt ceiling, imperiling Biden’s economic recovery as well as his Build Back Better plans.
And, once again, the media is covering it as a “Biden Crisis!” rather than what it really is: a cynical political and media strategy devised by Republicans in the 1970s, fine-tuned in the 1980s and 1990s, and rolled out every time a Democrat is in the White House.”