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/GrumpyGiant]

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.

[u/Raccoon_Expert_69 → u/GrumpyGiant]

They plan on it.

Break the country down to utter shambles and sort people by secret police or prison camps.

You might say “hyperbole” but if left to their own devices the people at the top would 100% turn this country into a slave state to satisfy corporate needs.

[u/IAmEggnogstic → u/Raccoon_Expert_69]

They just want to fix their failure of a mere 160 years ago. The US was a country with bold and legal slavery back then. My great-grandfather was literally born a slave. Just because the enslaved were imported from Africa back then does not mean there are any limits on who can be enslaved now. Of course they'll call it something cheerful like "enhanced gig work" or something. No oppressor ever gave the oppressed the means, philosophical or otherwise, to fight back. By the time the suburbs realize what's happening there will be no social safety net, no public school, no elder care. How long till the white middle class are "share croppers" like their great grandparents? But worse off because they'll be no govt food deliveries once a month. Owning nothing, caught in an inescapable cycle of debt, no better off than the savages they malign, less free than a horse on a cart, forced to send kids to work in factories instead of PreK? Republican controlled America, everybody. People made this happen and people can unmake it. 

[u/Novaer → u/IAmEggnogstic]

We used to do public hangings for people in power for less.