Summary
At the first meeting of the DOGE Caucus, a new congressional group focused on government efficiency, Republican Rep. Greg Lopez stated that cuts to Social Security and Medicare are likely “on the table” as part of debt reduction efforts.
The caucus, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, aims to slash government spending, raising concerns among advocacy groups about potential attacks on anti-poverty programs.
Critics, including Social Security Works, warn the caucus may push for privatization and benefit reductions.
This comes despite Trump’s prior commitment to protect these programs.
This is what happens when you’ve never ridden on the subway.
Yet if there is any discussion on increasing taxes on these fucks all of a sudden it’s government overreach on the “job creators”
If DOGE doesn’t touch US Military spending (they won’t), it’s more bullshit than the TSA
What’s going to happen is DOGE will cut $5 trillion from the programs, and then there will be a $4 trillion in tax cuts that impact only the rich in someway or another, and an additional $1 trilion for the military.
0 money is actually going to be saved from this. Realistically it’ll be negative and cost money, not even 0.
well i guess it’s a good thing nobody really needed that Social Security anyways /s
i’m impressed over and over again what kind of mental flexibility allows people to call themselves “followers of jesus” and then implement such regulations.
Not to come off as a raging cynic, but I for one am not.
All one needs to do is work retail or food service on Sundays. Moral licensing is absolutely a thing, and it’s awful. Such interactions can leave one with the impression that there’s a huge mob of people out there that are more concerned with narrowly avoiding hell than ensuring their place in heaven. Nevermind trying to be good people.
Someone needs to share this news with @BigMacHole@lemm.ee
You do realize that’s satire account, right?
Yeah that’s why we need him
WHUT? I thought Trump was just going to kick out all the illegals and fuck over China! No one told me there would be DOMESTIC consequences!! Why didn’t anyone warn me? At all his rallies he said the next 4 years would be awesome. Now I’m starting to think I was misled!
Them leopards be eatin some faces
nooo trump will definitely make the country great again, you see, but just like every great empire, so does this one require slaves/victims. otherwise if you’re not winning against someone, what is the point in greatness?
kek
Bahahahahaha.
Fucking DO IT
All you guys who didn’t vote for whatever reason… I hope you’re happy.
I think that anyone who didn’t vote because they thought the two were equivalent are probably not the type of person to keep up with this type of thing. So, there is probably ignorance, not necessarily stupidity (although there is that too). Ignorance is bliss. They’re probably in their own world worrying about other things, and they probably are happier for it.
I am envious. It will be bad enough to suffer resulting from everything president dipshit will do, but suffering from frustration knowing it is coming is awful too.
I’m watching the machine that’s oppressed me and everyone I love accept a newly tossed wrench right into the gears.
I’d be lying if part of me wasn’t happy to see the first few sparks.
Sure, Trump threw it. Were you throwing anything but memes? Soon you’ll get to throw bricks and molotovs.
I’ve actually been Black Bloc at protests going back to the Occupy movement, I’ve been throwing shit. Can I assume you’re one of those dickhead accelerationists that’s never actually done anything and just wants to stir shit up?
EDIT:
cuts to Social Security and Medicare are likely “on the table” as part of debt reduction efforts.
Medicare for all? More like Medicare for none.
Sure sure. I’m game for moving social security, but now how about you give back all the fucking money I put in it WITH interest since ya know… Inflation.
This country isn’t for you, homie. It’s for the rich.
The rich will get your money and your interest, and you’ll get nothing. Americans like it that way.
Remember, we fucking paid for social security. It’s not government pork. It’s ours.
Don’t worry, you’ll continue to pay for it. You’ll probably even pay more.
The cuts are just for the people receiving it. They’ll lose money. Which means you’ll lose even more in the future.
A majority of young people agree on what the right course of action is here. Remember to leave your phone at home. Don’t talk to the police.
Don’t worry, you’ll continue to pay for it. You’ll probably even pay more.
You know what? Im already this fucking close anyway:
Spins up my semi-industrial mushroom and weed farm again
Time to make some untracked moolah I guess
I would like to purchase a stake in your industrial botanical operation. What people will do with weeds I have no idea but mushrooms are always popular at the farmers market.
Up, it has a surplus. Government ‘borrows’ from the pool to pay for stuff. When they say they’re making cuts, what they mean is they don’t intend to pay the debt.
No, it’s theirs. They’re going to take it and we’re just going to let them because we are cowards.
You, me, the next guy that posts a meme, complete and total cowards who are going to bend over and let him fuck us.
Y’all let it get this far, are you waiting on something? Bend over, then.
A huge, mouth watering steak walks up to you and says, “There’s no more food.”
Thank you, I couldn’t think of a better analogy
That’s rich.
ill see myself out
Hopefully they stop all those subsidies that go towards farms and we all starve and die.
Those subsidies mostly go to huge Ag corps that pretend they’re split up into hundreds of little family farms…
who needs crops when we can eat the oligarchs?
There’s not that many of them, many people will be hungry
doesn’t need to be, of course. they just want to cut social security because ‘the poors’ rely on it more.
This could end badly for them. Old people without a means to continue surviving either have to continue working till they die, or die fighting the government.
There’s certain people who continue to receive social security from childhood if they have a qualifying disability and make under a certain amount of money. I think to qualify for social security your primary caregiver has to be on social security, like if you live with a grandparent or you have an older parent.
I’m not even touching on those on SSDI. Just the common retired 67 year old. Just imagine a retired Walmart worker with no SSI income. Way too many of them with nothing else to do other than die; be homeless, suffer and die; or die taking in the government.
The wealthy, who have had help all their life but imagine they did it all on their own, see needing help when you’re poor as a disgusting moral failing. Many of them will also call themselves Christians.
