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In reply to the discussion: If you're an elected dem who is open to cutting Social Security, or Medicare or S.N.A.P., Fuck you. [View all]glowing
(12,233 posts)When poor people don't have money, they don't have credit cards to fall back on. They just go without. Since SNAP has been cut back for families over the last year, Walmart has seen a decline in profits. Now, they want to make even more cuts to the program, plus they talk about fixing social security and Medicare by increasing ages and cutting benefits. Really? What will happen is that millions of Americans will keel over at the jobs they are working.
These sycophants, these leeches of the govt, these assholes in their ivory towers really think that a nurse should be laboring until they are 70yrs old? What damned 70yr old could work 12 hr shifts, keep medicines straight, deal with sponge baths and bed pans, oh and lift people in and out of bed? What cop can work "the beat" until they are 70? What coal miner can work in mines until they are 70? Shoot in many WV, and other poor counties, the life expectancy of a man is well below the age of 70, so I guess that's some savings. Or we just cut back on how much they receive... So, the elderly are going without their medicines or food or heating (one of these items is sure to kill them).
On the other end, we have poor parents raising their children in povert in America. 1 out of 5 children in America. What did they do to deserve such a "bootstrap" existence? And the cycle of poverty is extremely hard to escape when one is born into it. Housing, food, medicine, and schooling is often horrible and poor. And even if extremely smart and motivated, affording higher education is absolutely priced out of their thought. (And to be fair, a child living in poverty would be lucky to be in that "smarter" category since their lack of a nutrient rich diet causes brain development issues). This is America? This is why we spend more money on "defense" protecting? Everything is crumbling around us. Our trade policies are sending us into a third world status. Building new schools or bridges or modern transportation or green energy is pushed to the side. Seriously, when is the last time a new school that wasn't "charter" was built?
And yet, it was so important to pass the Panama Free Trade Act so the wealthy from around the world could hide their money from being taxed? That banks can rip people off, pay a few billion in fines, and reward the CEO for making a trillion off the fraud?
I guess America has spent so much time "losing", they can't even envision a life of happiness, stress free living, pushing for ideas and goals that are noble. All they see is struggle and prison and politicians on the take and wealthy laughing in their faces and wars... They can't even think to ask for more. To demand more. We have Democrats who say $15.00/ hr for a 40hr work week is too much? Really? Is someone's time on this earth so invaluable? Is someone else's life so much better that a few deserve to own it and the rest be destroyed by their greed for power and money?
There is a reason Trump got the puke nom and Bernie has been so successful. Honest to God, if the Dems hadn't stacked the delegates and the party so in favor of Clinton and the media so dastardly in the way they covered Bernie vs Trump, I think he would be the dem leader at this point. It is to the peril of our democracy that people in power are not seeing the real anger and frustration drawing to a head. And really its fascism or progressivism, but it won't be he status quo. Many people can't hold out another 4 or 8 yrs of struggling like they are just to keep their lips above the water. Many are tapping out via suicide. Others who are able will leave the country. but with all this military mite we've allowe our tax dollars to fund, I'm afraid authoritarian, regime by our corporate overlords may actually prevail over the people.