Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a net worth of around $600 million, and his answer to people who will be losing their Medicaid is to tell them to get a job.
Why do these billionaires need my Social Security money for anyway? To buy more huge yachts? He sure looks and behaves like Marie Antoinette don't you think..
I knew there was an undercurrent of racism and sexism in this country, but I honestly had no idea that it runs so deep that people would rather burn the whole place down in an effort to maintain it. The head racist/sexist has given them permission to be open about it, and boy, are they running with it.
We are supposed to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our country next year. The country we will be "celebrating" will be nothing like the men who established it 250 years ago imagined or strove and died for. I weep for our republic and democracy.
This is what you get when you elect a disconnected, arrogant, self possessed, racist to the highest office in the land. Please remember this in 2026 and vote all blue. Let's stop this madness. Remember he picked these people because they all think? like him. Disgraceful and an insult to our country and freedom.
Well, the "Men" that signed the US Constitution new full well what wrath the 3/5th's Compromise did to enslave "those bound to Service for a Term of Years." What goes around comes around.
U.S. Constitution, (the Three-fifths Compromise is part of ) Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
Maybe your are the robot as you protest to much me thinks.
p.s. Oh, and that whole "Civil War" thing was fought over Clause 3.
No shit. Americans seem they cannot stand prosperity. They ALWAYS vote against their best interests. We seem to be a country of sadists and masochists. WTFF!?!!?
The jobs that Scott Pissant has held all offer great health benefits. I spent the year between graduating from uni, where I could use the infirmary, and landing my first job with Blue Cross breathless with fear of getting sick or hurt.
Most Medicaid patients are not employable. They are the elderly, the very young (children) and the unborn. The work requirement will apply to all able bodied adults who seek Medicaid coverage for medical expenses. However, this has already been tried and failed in Kentucky. The paperwork burden is more than the existing Kentucky health care system could bear.
The result ends up being hospitals stuck with patients who are unable to go home and unable to stay in hospital.
Medicaid certification is cumbersome enough already. There already is a severe bottleneck because of certification requirements. Adding more will just delay certification of eligible applicants. Of course, this is likely the point. The Trump Administration is reneging on most of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. I sure hope intelligent voters are capable of putting two and two together in November 2026. Culling a handful of so-called lazy people from the Medicaid program will result in the loss of meaningful and affordable healthcare for tens of millions of Americans. By the way, most of them will be in reliably RED states.
One thing many people hoping for redemption in the 2026 elections overlook or are unaware of is that the most draconian provisions don't go into effect until after the election. The Democrats have a lot of heavy-lifting to do in the midterms.
Yes. The big ugly bill is a big bait and switch con. It is aimed at mitigating GOP losses in 2026. Like everything else that the GOP does, deceit is the centerpiece of this legislation.
Bessant is an arrogant despicable liar of a man. He never looks anyone directly in the eye. He smirks when he looks in to the camera and truly doesn’t care about anyone other than the wealthy. Period.
Bessent is soooo out of touch!!!!!!!!!! A rich man with no cares in the world telling the disabled, poor, and children to get a job!!!!! Pathetic and Disgusting!!!!! Too bad his sorry ass can’t change places with a Medicaid recipient!!!!!!
trump said a lot about this bill before it passed the senate and house. He did that so people would think he’s a good guy and he’s protecting the most vulnerable. But they forgot one thing. The man is a LIAR! He will do and say anything to get what he wants and to put himself at the top of the pyramid! He really doesn’t give a shit about the most vulnerable people in this country or anybody that doesn’t worship the ground he walks on. So now that it’s the law, the people he hates the most will suffer. People need to open their eyes and clearly see what this man is! And right now he’s a man that’s trying to take over this country. We need to stop him!
Tell Bessent he is a smiling assassin and only antisocial people would tell an 70 - 80 year old to get a job. Only in the US and only by Republicans. This shows everyone what you stand for, cruelty and inhumanity.
Spoken like the good member of the American Fascist Party, formerly the GOP. The poor, the disadvantaged, the disabled, the aged are THE PROBLEM and must be punished, in order for those elitists to enrich themselves.
Mr. Bissent, please do your homework (your job actually). You obviously are unaware of how many people are working and still qualify for Medicaid. There are a lot 👍🏻. That’s a result of wages, not work ethic.
Most of the Cabinet are billionaires; the rest rich by normal standards. Few of them have ever really worked for a living. They have no idea how most Americans live, what they do for a living, the hardships normal people have. They have everything handed to them. The few who actually came from non-rich backgrounds have forgotten what the non-rich, most of whom live paycheck to paycheck, have to deal with. They have theirs, and the hell with the rest of us.
Believe it or not, there ARE good and evil billionaires. And a whole spectrum of morality in between those poles. I read that Bill Gates is donating his entire fortune of $107 billion to his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with a mandate that the money be spent by 2045 and the foundation closed.
He was one of the few billionaires who actually invented something. If you had invented Windows operating systems you would be a billionaire too. Let’s not be blinded to what virtue there is while castigating the idle class of swindler billionaires.
Oh, but he did not invent Windows. DOS was a copy of CPM. Windows was a copy of MAC OS. Excel was released on MAC OS first but was a knockoff of Visicalc.
Well Larry, there are many opinions about who did what first in this world. However the US Patent office has the deciding vote preliminarily, subject to the US Courts.
I have yet to see a successful challenge to the patents on Windows.
I get it, you despise billionaires. I on the other hand despise the actions that many of them repeatedly take throughout their lives to prosper without paying back their fair share to society at large. I detest the attitude that taxation is theft and that it’s every person for themselves.
Billionaires and corporations are not the problem.
It is our government and our elected representatives that have failed the people by allowing billionaires and corporations to constantly receive phony baloney tax cuts and outright freedom from taxation.
It appears to me that we have many opinions in common but I will agree to disagree on this point.
Sure, I use MAC/Unix, Windows, Linux some. However, Gates did not code the DOS (Patterson did), Network or GUI; just sold more copies with agreement with IBM for a slice of the action on sales when IBM and Kildall could not agree to a deal. In short Gates got lucky.
All successful inventors are lucky. There is always a scramble to take credit for new ideas and their applications. Henry Ford got lucky that way too. He didn’t invent the assembly line. But he was in a position and had the insight to apply it in an industrial way that satisfied a public need.
Ford, unlike Bill Gates, was a Nazi sympathizer. And Ford certainly did not give away the bulk of his fortune for the public good.
Even so, Bill Gates agrees that billionaires should be paying a lot more taxes.
Maga is literally defecating on people now; I give you Texas, Floods, Death and barbie bimbo Kristi No-em blaming the weather service with her lipstick mess.
Given his association with Mangohead, I'd say he's getting an up-close and personal look at mental issues. The problem is, it's not registering with him. He just looks past it and continues to live in Fantasyland with Mangohead.
I heard him say there was a very small number of people on Medicaid that actually would be cut. A very small number adds up to $800 million in savings?? The math doesn’t work.
Oh, then the $800 million is actually coming from where, Scott??
So out of touch with reality. Ignorant, hateful
Cruelty
Why do these billionaires need my Social Security money for anyway? To buy more huge yachts? He sure looks and behaves like Marie Antoinette don't you think..
Has he ever worked at Walmart or any other minimal wage job? Disrespectful!
We could have had Hillary or Harris and we ended up with this creep because of what again?
I knew there was an undercurrent of racism and sexism in this country, but I honestly had no idea that it runs so deep that people would rather burn the whole place down in an effort to maintain it. The head racist/sexist has given them permission to be open about it, and boy, are they running with it.
We are supposed to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our country next year. The country we will be "celebrating" will be nothing like the men who established it 250 years ago imagined or strove and died for. I weep for our republic and democracy.
This is what you get when you elect a disconnected, arrogant, self possessed, racist to the highest office in the land. Please remember this in 2026 and vote all blue. Let's stop this madness. Remember he picked these people because they all think? like him. Disgraceful and an insult to our country and freedom.
Magas "Thinking" is an oxymoron.
Well, the "Men" that signed the US Constitution new full well what wrath the 3/5th's Compromise did to enslave "those bound to Service for a Term of Years." What goes around comes around.
This is nonsense. You are clearly a bot
Read it an weep.
U.S. Constitution, (the Three-fifths Compromise is part of ) Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
Maybe your are the robot as you protest to much me thinks.
p.s. Oh, and that whole "Civil War" thing was fought over Clause 3.
No shit. Americans seem they cannot stand prosperity. They ALWAYS vote against their best interests. We seem to be a country of sadists and masochists. WTFF!?!!?
Hit the nail on the racist head.
bessent is totally unqualified for this job. It disgusts me.
Bessent and everyone else in this resume are completely unqualified to be fucking human beings!!
They are all certainly poster children for retroactive abortion.
I am starting to think we are near our own "King Louis" moment.
The jobs that Scott Pissant has held all offer great health benefits. I spent the year between graduating from uni, where I could use the infirmary, and landing my first job with Blue Cross breathless with fear of getting sick or hurt.
Most Medicaid patients are not employable. They are the elderly, the very young (children) and the unborn. The work requirement will apply to all able bodied adults who seek Medicaid coverage for medical expenses. However, this has already been tried and failed in Kentucky. The paperwork burden is more than the existing Kentucky health care system could bear.
The result ends up being hospitals stuck with patients who are unable to go home and unable to stay in hospital.
Medicaid certification is cumbersome enough already. There already is a severe bottleneck because of certification requirements. Adding more will just delay certification of eligible applicants. Of course, this is likely the point. The Trump Administration is reneging on most of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. I sure hope intelligent voters are capable of putting two and two together in November 2026. Culling a handful of so-called lazy people from the Medicaid program will result in the loss of meaningful and affordable healthcare for tens of millions of Americans. By the way, most of them will be in reliably RED states.
One thing many people hoping for redemption in the 2026 elections overlook or are unaware of is that the most draconian provisions don't go into effect until after the election. The Democrats have a lot of heavy-lifting to do in the midterms.
Yes. The big ugly bill is a big bait and switch con. It is aimed at mitigating GOP losses in 2026. Like everything else that the GOP does, deceit is the centerpiece of this legislation.
Bessant is an arrogant despicable liar of a man. He never looks anyone directly in the eye. He smirks when he looks in to the camera and truly doesn’t care about anyone other than the wealthy. Period.
He should go live in a project for a day.
I wish
Bessent is soooo out of touch!!!!!!!!!! A rich man with no cares in the world telling the disabled, poor, and children to get a job!!!!! Pathetic and Disgusting!!!!! Too bad his sorry ass can’t change places with a Medicaid recipient!!!!!!
GO. F. YOURSELF.
Peter the Russian troll. He has many accounts. This is the third one today I’ve reported blocked. The other two was on MTN.
Looks like Angela is right there with him. I don't know how to report or block.
trump said a lot about this bill before it passed the senate and house. He did that so people would think he’s a good guy and he’s protecting the most vulnerable. But they forgot one thing. The man is a LIAR! He will do and say anything to get what he wants and to put himself at the top of the pyramid! He really doesn’t give a shit about the most vulnerable people in this country or anybody that doesn’t worship the ground he walks on. So now that it’s the law, the people he hates the most will suffer. People need to open their eyes and clearly see what this man is! And right now he’s a man that’s trying to take over this country. We need to stop him!
If he’s speaking- he’s lying 🤥- his worshipping “uneducated”refuse to believe that 😵💫🥺
Willful ignorance. Worked during Jim Crow decades.
Everyone knows Agent donald is a liar and creep, some just don't want to admit it.
Comrad Bone Spurs
Comrad TACO.
Tell Bessent he is a smiling assassin and only antisocial people would tell an 70 - 80 year old to get a job. Only in the US and only by Republicans. This shows everyone what you stand for, cruelty and inhumanity.
BS Bessant is simply Anti American.
Spoken like the good member of the American Fascist Party, formerly the GOP. The poor, the disadvantaged, the disabled, the aged are THE PROBLEM and must be punished, in order for those elitists to enrich themselves.
See? There’s a species lower than ignorant, clueless, imbecile.
Mr. Bissent, please do your homework (your job actually). You obviously are unaware of how many people are working and still qualify for Medicaid. There are a lot 👍🏻. That’s a result of wages, not work ethic.
Most of the Cabinet are billionaires; the rest rich by normal standards. Few of them have ever really worked for a living. They have no idea how most Americans live, what they do for a living, the hardships normal people have. They have everything handed to them. The few who actually came from non-rich backgrounds have forgotten what the non-rich, most of whom live paycheck to paycheck, have to deal with. They have theirs, and the hell with the rest of us.
The myth of the benevolent billionaire.
Believe it or not, there ARE good and evil billionaires. And a whole spectrum of morality in between those poles. I read that Bill Gates is donating his entire fortune of $107 billion to his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with a mandate that the money be spent by 2045 and the foundation closed.
Maybe. I wonder how many "backs" he walked on to get the money in the first place.
He was one of the few billionaires who actually invented something. If you had invented Windows operating systems you would be a billionaire too. Let’s not be blinded to what virtue there is while castigating the idle class of swindler billionaires.
Oh, but he did not invent Windows. DOS was a copy of CPM. Windows was a copy of MAC OS. Excel was released on MAC OS first but was a knockoff of Visicalc.
Well Larry, there are many opinions about who did what first in this world. However the US Patent office has the deciding vote preliminarily, subject to the US Courts.
I have yet to see a successful challenge to the patents on Windows.
I get it, you despise billionaires. I on the other hand despise the actions that many of them repeatedly take throughout their lives to prosper without paying back their fair share to society at large. I detest the attitude that taxation is theft and that it’s every person for themselves.
Billionaires and corporations are not the problem.
It is our government and our elected representatives that have failed the people by allowing billionaires and corporations to constantly receive phony baloney tax cuts and outright freedom from taxation.
It appears to me that we have many opinions in common but I will agree to disagree on this point.
He had a product that people wanted called Microsoft. You might have heard of it.
Sure, I use MAC/Unix, Windows, Linux some. However, Gates did not code the DOS (Patterson did), Network or GUI; just sold more copies with agreement with IBM for a slice of the action on sales when IBM and Kildall could not agree to a deal. In short Gates got lucky.
All successful inventors are lucky. There is always a scramble to take credit for new ideas and their applications. Henry Ford got lucky that way too. He didn’t invent the assembly line. But he was in a position and had the insight to apply it in an industrial way that satisfied a public need.
Ford, unlike Bill Gates, was a Nazi sympathizer. And Ford certainly did not give away the bulk of his fortune for the public good.
Even so, Bill Gates agrees that billionaires should be paying a lot more taxes.
Yeah. So much for trickle-down economics. The only thing that's trickling down is pi$$.
Even Laffer abandoned his silly theory once he saw how it absolutely did not work in practice.
Maga is literally defecating on people now; I give you Texas, Floods, Death and barbie bimbo Kristi No-em blaming the weather service with her lipstick mess.
What about people with disabilites - has he no experience with people who have physical issues??
Or mental issues, for that matter
Given his association with Mangohead, I'd say he's getting an up-close and personal look at mental issues. The problem is, it's not registering with him. He just looks past it and continues to live in Fantasyland with Mangohead.
I heard him say there was a very small number of people on Medicaid that actually would be cut. A very small number adds up to $800 million in savings?? The math doesn’t work.
Oh, then the $800 million is actually coming from where, Scott??
The middle class, elderly and poor.