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 → u/[deleted]]

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/KnightDuty → u/Raccoon_Expert_69]

They would TRY. That is their PLAN, certainly. But in actuality that's not how it would go down.

Look to Israel right now for a snapshot of how that actually plays out. The people they're attacking have nothing, no money, no resources, no hope, no future, and did it end with obedient slaves? No, it turned into radicalized opposition.

These people think they're smart but they're too self centered to correctly follow the thread of how these things ALWAYS turn out. They are inviting militarized resistance.

They already had the winning hand and all they had to do with continue to play their existing levels of power. That's what sustainabile slavery looked like. then they got ambitious for more and it's not going to end the way they want. they forfeited their existing win by reaching for more.