880 billion dollar for would literally be eliminating Medicaid, hope everyone who voted trump and Republicans are good with this, especially those who are poor and have kids with special needs.
Why is everyone surprised? This what republicans wanted. This is what they campaigned for. If you haven’t been listening carefully for the past few years, this is exactly what they’ve always wanted.
This is no surprise.
my fellow americans are various forms of illiterate.
Willfully ignorant. They know they’ll never reach whatever passes for the American dream these days. But as long as people with darker skin are hurt more they’ll be happy to watch wealthy people on TV. **Voyeur Capitalism ** is what I call it.
good term
for the past few years
This has been the Republican project for decades.
It’s no surprise, but what confuses me is why they would want to kill off their most loyal supporters? Maybe they really are all in on no more fair elections so it doesn’t even matter if the rural poor die or become homeless
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No one here is surprised.
Don’t worry, they’ll destroy a lot more than that. The entire US economy is about to be absolutely shredded.
I’m almost 40 and my whole life I’ve always known I would NEVER see a dime I paid into social security or medicare or anything taken from taxes. 30% of my life robbed because old greedy people are always in charge and can’t see beyond their last 2 years on earth at all times.
It’s worse than that. If wages had kept pace with productivity (thanks Reagan), we would have been working 2-3 day workweeks at full wages for over twenty years by now.
They literally stole over half of our lives. That amounts to class genocide.
41% of births and the biggest portion of maternity care are covered under Medicaid. Highest is Louisiana at 64%. Combine this with abortion restrictions and potential loss of access to labor and miscarriage related drugs and you’re looking at lots more dead pregnant people, dead fetuses, and dead infants and far fewer rural hospitals handling any sort of reproductive care.
Because Republicans think that that 64% is mostly black and brown people getting a handout.
This is precisely the outcome that they desire.
Almost certainly, it shall be achieved.
Live babies in poverty make great dead soldiers though. Have they forgotten this?
Republicans - Yes, that was the plan.
Isn’t that the entire GOP platform, in a nutshell?
Sure, they have to throw red meat to racist dumbasses to get them to vote for them…
I have family members who moved from state to state around 20 years ago until they found one that would approve their disability statuses so they no longer had to work and would qualify for the whole smorgasbord of government assistance programs including medicaid.
They think most people who are receiving these benefits are just lazy and that there would be more money for people like themselves who need that money if these programs were slashed. They believe only those other (i.e. lazy) people will lose benefits.
There’s literally no reasoning with that mentality. They seem to think this is all entertaining.
I guarantee you that once they are personally affected, and I’m pretty sure they will be affected at some point, they’ll turn on this administration.
I have many problems with this, but the hardest pill to swallow is that I’m going to have to be the bigger person and accept them with open arms because at the end of the day there’s no stopping this unless we’re all united.
I hope they get what they voted for. And I will NEVER accept them. They made this mess, it’s on their shoulders, pocketbooks, and well-beings to fix it.
Maybe… Or you tell them to get fucked and pull themselves up by the boot straps. Why have shitty people in your life?
yeah, we know.
but thanks anyway to the economists for making it official with numbers.
Removing regulations and dismantling the government doesn’t help anyone but the rich.
I once stumbled on a discussion, on Reddit I think (or maybe it was Twitter) from a small-time farmer who basically admitted that most farmers in his position realized regulations were important and could be a force for good, but large agri-businesses constantly flouted rules and never got anything more than a slap on the wrist when caught. A sort of “rules for thee, not for me” situation. And so all the small time farmers had to cut corners and ignore regulations to remain competitive and viable.
Overly complex regulations could increase the barrier of entry for newer companies, small time entrepreneurs, etc. In some instances it can actually be in the interest of large, established companies to maintain overly complex regulatory environments as it keeps competition out of the market.
Insightful simplification of regulations that increases their effectiveness while reducing unnecessary burdens might be feasible, and also, beneficial for society as a whole.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like we’re going to get that with this administration. They’re just going to smash and break, and at best, they might realize they broke some important things and perhaps repair it to a limited extent.
edit: clarified a few points.
What happened to “The American Way” that Superman was fighting for? Would he be ashamed now?
What happened to “The American Way” that Superman was fighting for?
The same thing that happened to truth and justice.
Superman was always fighting for people … rich white people … you know Americans.
/s /sarcasm /this_is_sarcasm
They say that as if destroying programs that benefit the common people and instituting policies that benefit the 1% are some sort of unexpected consequences rather than the exact and explicit point.
Part of the strategy is to exhaust us by blasting our supposed impotence at us perpetually. Don’t fall for it though.
This won’t benefit the 1% in the long run. Having a stable government of laws is what made their dollars worth more than rubles.
Yes the GOP is made of GOP
What’s fucking wild is Medicaid helps rural communities more than them big cities.
Are they sure they want to piss off people who have more guns than teeth? This is gonna be Luigi ×500.
I like your optimism. I don’t think anything could change these people’s minds though. Somehow they will be convinced Obamacare took away their Medicaid, and Trump is working his ass off to fix it, but all these regulations and taxes and government employees are gumming up his operation.
Just watch… Like I said I like the optimism. Hopefully one day I can call some of the hundreds of thousands of hicks in my state comrades.
They’re also trying as hard as they can to piss off the military. I don’t get it
No shit.
