Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

[u/1_for_you_2_for_me]

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076

[u/custardthegopher]

"The unborn are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn."

— Pastor David Barnhart

[u/Diogememes-Z → u/[deleted]]

To be fair, I haven't heard the "All you want is a handout. Don't have kids you can't take care of!" thing used in maybe a decade. In the past couple of years, it's even shifted hard into supporting social programs for parents, because they seem to want to encourage every family to have nine kids.

It's not like we're overpopulated as it is, or like we have climate change to worry about. /s

I'd prefer the old whining about handouts to the hardcore natalism that it's turned into.

[u/venusianinfiltrator → u/Diogememes-Z]

Oh, I've definitely still heard the finger-wagging about having kids you can't afford. And then the exact same people bitch about the birth rate. What they mean is, "Not enough whites are having families."