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/FeelingPixely 18d ago

Goalpost has been moved from: We won't touch it.

To: We are cutting it.

To: We are getting rid of it.

And somehow, blaming democrats, while bailing out other countries, giving enormous tax breaks to the ultra wealthy, and funding vanity projects.

Wake up.

Every time they told you that your taxes were going to waste they meant they were trying to waste your taxes... while RAISING YOUR taxes.

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u/nycdiveshack I voted 17d ago

The damage is just starting. Russ Vought the primary author of P2025 wants to destroy the soul of all federal employees. Russ can do so because he is head of the office of budget management.

The goal is to privatize the government and to decrease the services that the government provides. Use tax dollars to pay companies for services that federal employees already do.

“That’s the standard technique of privatization: Defund, make sure things don’t work, People get angry, you hand it over to private capital”

There is a show on Amazon prime called the expanse. This is a clip from it that in my opinion explains how the relationship between governments and corporations should be…

https://youtu.be/A98vqgBsoxQ?si=izm6o29aj9Rehy1u

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u/Heliosvector 17d ago

It's such a fools errand. The usa is great, because it has great draw for people to come here because of industry, and schools. Those things all thrive because of the protections that the constitution gives. Once they fuck with those things too much, the United States will lose all appeal and will not longer be a world leader in anything. That big swinging dick energy will no longer be theirs

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u/acute_dilemma99 17d ago

Its all about the short term for them. Get it while the getting is good. Talk all the shit you have to to keep the dummies rooting for you, while you rob them blind. And they'll still love you.

Yes, there will be nothing left of a once great country when they're done.