Somewhere, Florida senator Marco Rubio is watching Haley repeat “DeSantisLies.com” in every possible answer and grumbling, “And they said I sounded like a malfunctioning robot?”
I live in a different state from Phil, and I heard him scream when DeSantis said Social Security isn’t an entitlement.
DeSantis claiming that Social Security isn’t an “entitlement” and that it should not be called “welfare” is an egregious statement more appropriate for Bernie Sanders than for a Republican debate.
Haley’s plan — tweaking the retirement age for those in their 20s who won’t collect benefits for over 40 years, limiting cost of increases, and increasing Medicare Advantage plans would not go anywhere near for enough to address the entitlement crisis. But at least, unlike DeSantis, she acknowledges there is a problem that needs to be addressed.
DeSantis complains about Haley calling Social Security an “entitlement” which it definitionally is.
We ran a cover story on why life expectancies in the U.S. are falling: https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/05/15/why-american-lifespans-are-getting-shorter/
Dan,
One has to wonder if the candidates’ relative friendliness toward the moderators has something to do with non-Trump Iowa Rs prioritizing cordiality.
Also, DeSantis says that we can’t raise the retirement age when life expectancy is decreasing, but in recent years much of the life expectancy decrease was a result of peak Covid deaths.
These two candidates are really trying hard to obscure how far superior they both are to Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the various third party nuts.
“Ballistic podiatry” will not be making it into the political phrasebook, I suspect.