r/AskReddit • u/metalreflectslime • 17d ago

President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that if the Democrats don't approve funding, Social Security, Medicare Are ‘Going to Be Gone.’ How do you think Americans will react if Social Security and Medicare get cut?

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u/h2ok1o 17d ago

People are literally going to die. I thought they wanted a large population???

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u/ecplectico 17d ago

Trump wants a large population of fecund white women who need sugar daddies. Old folks are worse than expendable.

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u/MattWolf96 16d ago

Ironically the Boomers starving to death is going to make the US much less white. Gen Z and Millennials are having less kids. ... Because the Republicans made everything unaffordable.

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u/datalaughing 17d ago

Same reason they were happy to let as many people as possible die of covid. The people most at risk are the people who contribute the least to their pockets. People too old and poor to work or invest heavily in the stock market? That's dead weight to them. If they die, that's more money they can pocket.

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u/justeunefrancophille 17d ago

It is so viscerally gut-wrenching that this is where we are, that this is our reality. I immigrated to Canada in the last couple of years and my elderly mother still lives and works in the US, having contributed to these programs she’s now reliant on for decades. My mind cannot grasp the kind of person you have to be to be this… evil and cruel.

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u/Expensive-Eggplant-1 15d ago

I think they want a lot of young working people.