The internal document detailed a proposal that the agency acknowledged would “strain” resources and hurt “vulnerable populations.”

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    12 hours ago

    I thought the document was called Project 2025, and it wasn’t leaked online so much as published. Gutting “entitlements” has been their plan all along.

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          16 hours ago

          Makes me suspect they’re not even playing that ballgame anymore. The only thing scarier than a rich person’s unquenchable avarice is a rich person who has decided money isn’t enough.

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            They’re intentionally crashing the economy so the working class and wealthy have to sell up. Then the mega wealthy buy everything cheap (think: farm land, real estate, supermarket chains, transport, housing) once they own everything they will charge us anything and we will be living paycheck to paycheck but existing on credit.

            Similar to now but there will be zero regulations. No work safety. No food safety. No electronics QC. No building safety standards and no recourse for compensation when the inevitable deaths and injuries occur because the owners are the rulers.

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          I’m cynical, I believe they’ll rebound in the short term… And the worker class will be all the worse for it… I certainly hope I’m wrong though.

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    It’s about inflicting pain & harm on Americans. The GOP HATE Americans.

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    The alternative to no social security, medicare, etc is the kind of human experience you see in a country like India which also doesn’t have those sorts of programs. The disabled or old and poor end up either having to depend on their children, if they have any, or living on the streets begging and hoping for charity NGOs to help them.

    And so, many areas become rife with poverty and disease. They’re not safe, clean places to live let alone raise your kids. India ended up full of little gated communities because of this problem.

    That’s what America would become without social safety nets.

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    At this point I hope they completely destroy social security. This would be one powerful way to get the idiot trump voters to start second guessing their voting habits. Then maybe… we get dems to come back and fix it?

    Idk. The shit trump is doing has to hurt his supporters otherwise nothings gonna happen.