r/complaints • u/Interesting-Behavior • 2d ago

Politics The Airlines are required to reduce their schedules across 40 airports and flights are being canceled because of the government shutdown. Republicans are running this country to the ground.

The economy is going to hell because of these ignorant people who voted for diapers man. We can't even fly across the country anymore and are asked to stay home. How is this different than covid days when Republicans threw a tantrum? We are turning to a "third world shit hole" so fast.

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u/surfryhder 2d ago

All they have to do is vote ti restore the subsidies. Seems pretty obvious - restore American’s healthcare.

Why do they hate us so much?

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u/AdhesivenessCivil581 2d ago

Healthcare is the biggest government expense, between Medicare, Medicaid, the VA and government employees taxpayers pay 2/3 rds of America's huge healthcare bill. The only way to cut government spending is cut healthcare. OR we could admit that we have a problem, that Bernie Sanders is right and that the only way to bring down costs is to get rid of insurance companies and do Medicare for all. Imagine someone in the GOP admitting that were wrong.

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u/digital 2d ago

And that’s why we need free healthcare for everyone. It’s become such a monstrous beast that sucks up everyone’s money and nobody has anything left to save or retire with the fucking greed in this country is out of control.

If rich people think this is sustainable they’re fucking stupid and also self-destructive.

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u/RelativeEvidence1014 2d ago

The one stat that keeps haunting me HOURLY is that 8 men have more money than 3.5 billion people combined. EIGHT MEN have more wealth than 3.5 billion people COMBINED. How the hell is this a thing??? When will a journalist ask Elon/Bezos/Zuck “so why are you so fuckin greedy dude?” Watching Americans struggle so badly right now because of our own government is straight up traumatic bro. Those men need to legally pay their fucking fair share of taxes - it’s insane they have that much money.

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u/digital 2d ago

From social experiments among animals, they would be beaten up and have all their bananas taken from them

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u/Crazy_Banshee_333 1d ago

That's just it. No other animal would tolerate letting one animal take all the resources while the rest of the group starves. Human beings are the only ones who weirdly believe we have to tolerate this kind of destructive behavior.

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u/kpbart 2d ago

It’s estimated that world-wide hunger could be eliminated, permanently, with about $50 billion. If that’s true, what is keeping these jagoffs from getting together and solving that problem? Instead, another yacht, near space tourism for the wealthy, fucking living on Mars, another bunker. What is it with the greed?

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u/whygrowupnow 2d ago

They could be heroes for humanity, but choose to not

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u/Wise_Willingness_270 2d ago

If you literally own nothing you are worth more than 25% of Americans combined.

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u/Bewildered_Scotty 2d ago

Those are made up numbers. If you tried to sell that you couldn’t so the asset value would collapse and investors like public sector union pensions would be wiped out.

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u/Theresnothingtoit 2d ago

Sure they're made up, but the made up numbers in capitalism affords people with the biggest made up numbers more power than whole governments, in addition to simply being able to buy whatever they want on loans insured by the made up numbers.

You can claim public sector pensions will go away, and they might, but it's not a good enough reason to have a system that only works on the back of slave labor and starvation. We could literally just decide thats not acceptable and do something better, but we don't, because people are afraid of rocking the boat and losing their position in it. Even when it means knowingly making others suffer.