Stauber: We are watching you!

Congressman Pete Stauber cannot hide from his constituents forever.

Pete has a lot of explaining to do. He needs to hold a town hall meeting— in person— to talk to the folks in Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District and to answer our questions. 

Stauber has continually promised concerned constituents, on both sides of the aisle, that he will not vote to pass a budget that touches Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security— he has said so even on his own website. He is lying and so is the GOP.

Several weeks ago, Stauber voted to advance the GOP budget agenda that can include $880 billion worth of cuts to Medicare & Medicaid— crucial programs his voters depend on. Trump, Musk, Stauber (and the GOP) also hope to crash Social Security. So that it eventually is privatized, becoming play money on Wall Street for the titans to recklessly gamble away, along with our futures? We all know the GOP has tried to undermine Social Security for years while pretending to support it. 

The GOP has been chomping at the bit to privatize Social Security for at least 45 years. Today with Musk & his teenage bros (with chainsaws), now in charge & running the country, the GOP’s dream of a thoroughly diminished, AND privatized program, can become a reality.

The GOP cannot pass their huge & obscene tax cuts for the 1% richest humans & the wealthiest corporations without slashing our social safety net. The GOP will want to do this under cover of darkness AND will gaslight us telling us they aren’t really cutting benefits—just ‘identifying fraud & implementing work requirements’, and other such nonsense. This is NOT about ridding our government of “waste, fraud and abuse” — we all would welcome that. These cuts are being done at the whimsy of Elon Musk & Donald Trump — ridding the government of programs they personably dislike. Please don’t believe this hogwash about waste & fraud.

Looking forward, the Dems in DC must stick together to say NO to any GOP tax cut bills for the richest Americans. These cuts will only happen— on the backs of our elderly, poor & working families— by slashing the social safety net and our essential government services, among many other outrageous spending cut proposals. 

Stauber, Trump and the GOP cannot weasel out of this one. It is time for us to come together— to protect our social safety net— programs that have helped so many Americans since their creation. These programs are essential to the lives of everyday Americans. 

We reject the GOP’s broken promises to the American people. 

Pete— we are watching your every move.
Valerie Myntti
Eagles Nest, Minnesota

Making America Depressed Again

Firing thousands of people while dismantling the safety net for millions. Reviving Smoot-Hawley type tariffs that helped cause the Great Depression. Dissolving old alliances that have protected our nation for decades. Picking the pockets of the majority to give tax breaks to the wealthiest. It is way easier to tear things down than it is to build them up. Trump is not making America great. Trump is making America poor, lonely and vulnerable.
Jason Maloney
Washburn, Wiscconsin