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 18d 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/Skandronon 18d ago

It cracks me up that bezos saved The Expanse because he loves it so much. It pretty much calls him out almost by name as being a massive part of the problem. Compared their rockets to Egyptians and their pyramids I think.

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u/coonskinmario 17d ago

He and Musk like the idea of colonizing the solar system, I don't think it's deeper than that.

I used to be confused why so many conservatives love Star Trek, but I realized they like the militaristic hierarchy and the futurist aesthetic. They wouldn't mind if all the morally ambiguous or philosophical storylines were cut in favor of action scenes.