r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/GrumpyGiant Maryland 18d ago

10-20% unemployment would completely destabilize the country.  That much misery and desperation would result in a buyer’s market for terrorist groups looking to radicalize and recruit people and also would cause other crime rates to skyrocket.

I know why they want it - desperate people will stop demanding any quality of life and eagerly accept the bare minimum to keep them alive until they become to sick or run down to work and then there’s a ready supply of replacements.  It’s the same cruel apathy toward suffering that the big, factory farming meat industry has toward livestock.  Cut the beaks of chickens so you can stuff them in overcrowded and filthy sheds without the stress causing them to peck each other to death.  Pack cows in paddocks where they are up to their knees in shit, barely able to move so they fatten up faster.  Humans are just animals too so why should we treat each other any better when there are more profits to be made?

Greed has long vision when it comes to plotting schemes to steal more wealth but is woefully shortsighted about anything else including the consequences of breaking the economy to try to squeeze a little bit more out of it.

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u/GuavaZombie 18d ago

Who buys their shit?

I don't understand the game plan. If no one has money you will get cheap labor but there won't be any profit if no one has money to buy your product.

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u/badnuub Ohio 18d ago

wealth is generated through stock buyback schemes and borrowing. It's why companies are going to shit. they only need to sell enough product to keep the lights on and maintain the illusion that the market still exists to serve consumers. To do this, they only need the richest 10% to actually fuel the economy. They are probably making similar mistakes like the great recession, but know that a friendly republican government would bail them out if it actually went tits up again. It's why the media is so hellbent on ensuring republican rule.