U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn has unveiled his “New Contract with America” which calls for abolishing the Department of Education, making English the official language of the United States, and most incredibly, defunding Social Security in order to “incentivize” the elderly to work.
Cawthorn, 26, who happens to be the youngest member of Congress, would like to “turnaround the mismanagement of Social Security, because Americans want to help the needy by incentivizing people to work and get off entitlement programs.” Try explaining that one to your retired parents or grandparents.
The plan even came with its own hype video.
“The Green New Deal is a disaster…It’s a trojan horse for communism in America,” Cawthorn says in the video. “I am tired of watching the D.C. swam and political insiders capitulate to socialism. This is why I have come up with a bold Constitutional plan. It’s called the New Contract with America.”
“Absolutely nothing to see here. Just rhetorical froth,” observed one commenter. “A series of well-worn cliches strung together over stock footage to third-rate blockbuster soundtrack reject.”
The far-Right fever dream of a plan has no chance of passing while the Democrats hold the chamber, and Cawthorn himself may be ineligible for reelection over his role in the January 6 insurrection.
Here’s what actual Americans have to say about it, not the imaginary ones Cawthorn cites:
Here’s the full mess of a document:
Eternal.Cowboy
Sweet Jesus… have you ever watch someone so publicly embarrass themselves that YOU feel uncomfortable?
johncp56
Ditto but they should be more than embarrassed, boabbet and that moose knuckle MTG among others need to go, sticky scummy creeps is all oh Mitch the bitch needs to go who pays theses hateful morons
Covid Hermit
Is it time to conclude that he’s completely deranged? Seriously, can’t someone do something to get this guy committed to an institution for treatment of his obvious mental illness?
Mister P
Social Security has always been very popular. Why in the world would anyone want to do away with it?
Den
Well, for one thing he is a very stupid man. so stupid actions are to be expected. For another, he is a right winger and their connection to reality is tenuous at best. He has no sense of history, no understanding of the asocial contract and no empathy that extends beyond the surface of his own skin.
WillParkinson
Lying MFer say what?
Jim
Social Security is NOT and entitlement program. It’s an annuity program we have been paying into for decades.
The U.S. government has been borrowing from it for almost as long and helps fund our government.
MacAdvisor
Sorry, Jim, but you are just plainly and simply wrong. Social Security is absolutely an entitlement program. It is the archetype of an entitlement program. An entitlement program is, by definition, a government program you qualify for based on a set of criteria and, once those are met, you get the benefit regardless of the budget. If you have worked 40 qualifying quarters, you may receive Social Security payments starting at your retirement age. The age depends on the year of your birth. The program’s payments are supported by a specific tax on employers and employees. One is not paying for an annuity. It is a tax; Just like the gas tax is used to support highway improvements. This meme going around that Social Security is not an entitlement program is total hogwash.
jcool
just because he’s incredibly uneducated doesn’t mean that we don’t need a dept. of education. quite the opposite.
Heywood Jablowme
There are no jobs for the old folks. Age discrimination in hiring, while technically illegal, is difficult to prove and is pervasive everywhere. See the current IBM case where they even admitted in emails they were intentionally getting rid of the “dinobabies” (anyone over 50). Walmart even fired an elderly greeter after he had to start using a wheelchair.
martyvl
“It’s a trojan horse for communism in America”…….. yet he practically on his knees in worship of Putin. Hypocrite.
Den
Putin is not a communist, and Russia is not a communist country. It has not been since the fall of the soviet union. Russia is undeniably a capitalist country and Putin is a run of the mill Dictator.
Prax07
Someone needs to kick that little shit out of his wheelchair and throw it in a lake. That’s what his little plan would be doing to everyone on SS.
Kangol2
Nutty as a fruitcake, but he’s paralleling US Senator Rick Scott, the right-winger from Florida, who also has proposed taking out a contract on America that will raise taxes on the working-class, poor and elderly people, create severe budgetary and economic crises, and have all laws end after five years, meaning they’d have to be revoted up by the do-nothing fascist GOP and the timorous Democrats when they expire.
This would mean all US criminal statutes, all immigration laws, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. would all be allowed to expire and then we’d have to wait as the US economy and society went into a tailspin while the two parties haggled back and forth. It is one of the most insane policy suggestions anyone yet has put forward, but such is today’s extremist out of touch Republicant/GOP!
Cam
What a shock that the guy who failed out of school wants to get rid of the department of Education.
He’s also a fan of Hitler, so of COURSE he doesn’t want federal education requirements telling schools they can’t teach Nazism or erasing Slavery from history.
Dick Gozinia
I am not a fan of this guy, but it appears that some of his critics didn’t actually read his resolution. There is a lot to dislike in it, but what he actually says about Social Security is: (3) turnaround the mismanagement of Social Security, because Americans want to help the NEEDY by incentivizing people to work and get off entitlement programs. He does not say he wants to incentivize the ELDERLY to work. It’s extremely unlikely that any Congressman would seriously propose removing the elderly from Social Security. There are also some things to like in his resolution, such as: (13) impose term limits on Members of Congress, such as six terms for Members of the House of Representatives and two terms for Senators, to incentivize long-term and strategic policymaking.
Cam
Every time there is a story like this we get a new screename coming in saying…
“I’m not a fan of this guy BUT…….” then goes on to try to parse some small detail of what they said and adding in “I seriously doubt that……..
Hey, sweetie, you’re really bad at trolling and what he proposed is people on SS working. So yes, Cawthorn is absolutely proposing stealing Social security from the elderly and forcing them to work to get a piece of what they already paid for.
Meanwhile, he’s all for not taxing billionaires while grandma has to go out and lay asphalt to get her social security check.
Gay Press
You realize Social Security is paid to those over 62 or are disabled? The exact wording of his “contract” is:
“(3) turnaround the mismanagement of Social Security, because Americans want to help the needy by incentivizing people to work and get off entitlement programs; ”
So “incentivizing people to work and get off entitlement programs” if he means by removing them from SS you’d be targeting the elderly and disabled.
Polaro
I know a lot of handsome, stupid men who have achieved well beyond anything they merit. They do it by applying charm and not talking about things that will expose their stupidity. Madison is the oddball who lucked out because he is in a wheelchair and got the pity vote. He’ll be irrelevant in a year or two.
scotty
he’s been irrelevent since the day of his birth.
tjack47
Turd
louie
He should be forced to climb ladders with his hands tied behind his back.
Mack
Perhaps we should do away with wheelchairs and force him to walk? The Republican Party is doing what their leader wants them to do-I’m not talking about Puppet Trump, I’m talking about Putin. The Republicans needs to change their name to the real party-Russian United Party.
MacAdvisor
We do want to incentivize walking. My doctor always tells me to do more of it.
Jon in Canada
Contract With America? More like a Contract ON America.
Thad
One worthwhile thing, and a bunch of carp. Maybe the Department of Education should be eliminated. Schools and colleges are government-run at the state and local levels; a Federal level is needless costly duplication and big government at its worst.
But the rest? My head hurts.
cs1900
Big government at its worst? Nah. It’s one of the smallest and cheapest organs of the federal government.
Den
Federal oversight of education is absolutely essential to assure our kids grow into adults who can compete on the global market! If education is left up to the state or county we will have kids trying to get into college who believe Christian Myth is science and whose knowledge and understanding of actual history is non-existent.
barryaksarben
We need MORE education not less. Look at what Betsy (world’s worst christian) was all for taking all monies away from the education of handicapped children. RICH of country music fame called all teachers worse than pedophile because they could force the kids not to run away from them. I mean that is batshit crazy. Did he not ever go to school himself? if he wants to show us where the bad teachers touched him he should be contacting the authorities. How any teacher could not throw all his records away I ll never know. This nation was built on education for all and our Public schools produced almost every single exceptional American that has ever lived. The constant attacks on our education system starting with that mindless puppet Reagan and their stealing of public funds to give to religious schools against taxpayers wishes. Yes. our school system is in bad shape but can be fixed. MY state senator Rick Scott, has proposed that all AMericans pay taxes even those living in poverty doesnt mention a word about how our so many of our corporations pay little or no taxes. WILL HE DEMAND THAT his pals Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos FINALLY start paying some damned taxes
Mr-DJ
So, just like Newt Gingrich did several years ago, Cawthorn is putting out a “Contract on America”. That did not work out then, and it surely will not work out now.
wikidBSTN
Someone needs to put this child back in his sand box.
scotty
yeah they wont let him back in the sandbox coz the cats will just keep covering him up.
CNY1983
i cant think of one person who nor a single person who listens to anything this asswiper has to say. YICK!