• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    As a person with no children and unaffordable cancer medications that I am basically fucked into a corner to be in poverty on medicaid to afford…

    These people are fucking worse than my god damned cancer. So because I have no children my cancer just should magically not be a problem and I need to have proof of work?

    I want to fucking scream but it does nothing to help. I have a mouth and I must scream but if nobody hears it does it even matter? I will die as just another statistic, a number to be forgotten. To be fair, that’s all my life has ever been in this fucking shithole country.

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    10 days ago

    To clarify, btw, gutting medicaid still doesn’t give them enough to reverse the deficit increase caused by his tax cuts. The only way to balance the budget is to

    a) tax the rich

    or

    b) to cut some combination of Military, Medicare, and Social Security.

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      We know it ain’t gonna be the military. It’ll be social security first, then medicare.

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        I just don’t see it happening at all without military, tbh. Republicans probably don’t even care about deficit.

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          They never did. They say they do. But they damn don’t. They also say, “we nEEd to hELp OuR CiTiZeNs.” And look what they’re doing currently.

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      That’s the point. They can’t ever possibly fill the hole because they keep digging it deeper. It’s bottomless at this point until tax revenue dries up because we all died.

      Tldr: gop + starve the beast/regulatory capture + the entire us government

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      9 days ago

      We don’t need to balance the budget anually. It needs to be in balance within the cycle which is typically much longer than a year.

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    9 days ago

    And Americans still won’t do a general strike… “wE aRE noT TheRE yET!”

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        Republicans later: Why are the peasants so mad Democrat Marxists dressing up as farmers and protesting when I hold town halls??

        FTFY

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    If this country had an ounce of the balls it pretended it did the headline would read “Republicans call for bullets to face until the assault on the American worker has ended”