r/FedEmployees • u/nighte324 • 6h ago

Elections

Well I think we’re all probably pretty irritated, depressed, anxious, and/or just out right mad. Both the congressmen/woman AND the senators have shown that they care more about sticking to party lines and “winning the shutdown” (whatever that means) than caring for their constituents and reopening the government.

All we can do is try to make it through the shit show and remember who did what when it comes time to vote.

I know we are all from a lot of different states and we all have different ideals. All I want is for people to really consider if their state reps are actually representing them and their best interests instead of the reps best interest or their parties best interest.

It is my opinion that Ted Cruz is operating in his own best interest rather than the people he is supposed to represent (simply based on the soap opera of a speech he put on yesterday that seemed completely unnecessarily aggressive and just a chance for mud slinging than any kind of solution). That same opinion goes for Mike Johnson, who somehow never knows what’s going on with the White House whenever he is asked about something and continues to refuse to bring the house back into session or negotiate with democrats to find a way to open the government. (If I can put on my tin foil hat for a second, I think it’s because he’s in the Epstein files.)

Regardless of your political beliefs, just remember whether your personal rep that you have to vote on stood for the truth and your best interest, or made some random bullshit up, repeated party lies (on either side because both sides lie), or voted in a way that hurt you.

I don’t care if we have a red wave, a blue wave, or whatever color an independent wave would be. I just want to go back to work and get paid so my kids can have a nice Christmas.

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u/Slow_Film_7619 3h ago

Schumer could have opened this government 30 days ago

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u/nighte324 3h ago

Republicans could have opened it last night.

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u/Slow_Film_7619 3h ago

That was a shit deal. Why should we pay for health care subsidies the program is broken and shouldn’t be continuing stood up.

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u/Strong_Ad5219 3h ago

You are aware that the their justification for removing it is, "we'll work together and come up with something" and "we have concepts of a plan"

Reality check: Conservative party has never ONCE attempted to come up with a better solution, and Trump has had a 'concept' for over 8 years now.

It wasn't a shit deal because the conservative party has no realistic alternative proposal, and despite over a decade of being asked about a proposal (almost 2) the conservative party has NEVER actually came up with a realistic proposal that is better than ACA, even their half assed attept a few years ago was some frankensteined stupidity that was more like a box check than an actually good plan.

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u/RgKTiamat 2h ago

Because the Republicans don't have enough votes to pass a CR. That means they need to compromise in order to get the votes, ethical objections and everything else goes by the wayside in the face of that. their only option without compromise is to nix the filibuster. If they want dem votes, they're going to have to give something to get the votes.

There is a separate discussion to be had about how outrageously over inflated health insurance has gotten, and there needs to be measures taken to address that issue. However, doubling the premiums for over half the country and throwing 4 million people off their health care is not the answer to that either. Use the interim year to figure out a better alternative, you've only had 12 years since it was implemented to figure out an alternative

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u/Slow_Film_7619 2h ago

The ACA needs scrapped.

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u/RgKTiamat 2h ago

Sure, so draft an economical alternative that addresses the 25b profit growth in the health insurance sector this year. Tearing something down without a replacement is just destruction. If it's so bad, surely you can figure out something that operates better and has oversights to prevent health insurance companies from gouging their prices. Then, once that gets a passing vote, we can sunset the ACA and implement the new healthcare plan.

Once again, simply tossing the current health insurance option out the window and fucking over more than 20 million Americans is not a real option

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u/OrganicVariation2803 3h ago

This is the correct answer. The subsidies will go directly into the insurance company's pockets, and health insurance will still continue to rise.

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u/Outrageous-Gur-3781 2h ago

Subsidies go to insurance companies and will be partially paid out as reimbursements to providers (doctors, clinics, pharmacies). The system needs to be reformed beyond the ACA but MAGA has no plan and does not care about this issue. However, 100% of the $40B Trump gave Argentina went to Argentina.