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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wether or not you believe in empathy, one big problem right now is that people are already at a breaking point.  People are struggling and suffering, because their cost of living is too high, food costs, housing costs, healthcare costs - especially healthcare.  And we saw that with Luigi, who snapped.  And now another - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/man-arrested-molotov-cocktail-trump-treasury-scott-bessent.html

But what is Trump doing to help them?  Trump RAN on fixing inflation and bringing down the cost of groceries and housing and promised  "phenomenal" healthcare.  But what is he ACTUALLY doing?  He's on some deranged rampage over things demonizing federal employees and weaponizing the government against his political opponents and all kinds of other things that don't help the average American.

But now it's getting far worse than that.  He's shut down grants and funding for a whole range of programs. He's shut down Medicaid, he's cut hungry people off from SNAP, he's terminated housing subsidies, and on and on and on.

That will break people.  It will make people homeless, hungry and desperate.

This is YOUR guy Trump.  He did this.[/quote]

No.  Your bureaucracy is NOT there to help people.  It is there to protect itself.

The first and foremost rule of any bureaucracy is to protect the inefficiency of itself.

"He's on some deranged rampage over things demonizing federal employees and weaponizing the government against his political opponents and all kinds of other things that don't help the average American.  "

Hilarious statement based on just what you democrats did the last four years.  You must be self-identifying.[/quote]

You have so much hatred that it blinds you. Bureaucracies are not perfect but they serve a valid purpose. You speak in simplistic slogans that don’t show any real world understanding of the issue. You are just parroting the words of other people who have a personal motive to manipulate you. You are serving the interests of bad people who want to pillage our government. [/quote]

The federal bureaucracy is a behemoth.   Efforts at reform have been ineffective. When an invasive vine is strangling your specimen tree, a pair of handclippers no longer does the trick.  Eventually a large percentage of the population voted for Trump to come in with a chain saw.[/quote]

The federal government only exists because Congress passes laws to create it and to do things. The buck starts and stops with Congress.

Why can't you just change the laws and eliminate/reform functions of the federal government? Much of what Trump is attempting is extra-legal without a basis in law.

Your frustration is actually with the dysfunction of Congress. It can no longer govern, act in a timely manner, or come to consensus. And why is Congres dysfunctional? Because the American people are dysfuctional.[/quote]

Or maybe because the Republican party has decided to stop coming to the table and abdicate their responsibility to properly govern.  It's not both sides here.  Democrats have shown, time and time again that they are willing to compromise, work together and basically give in.  Republicans just want to throw a wrench in the machinery.[/quote]

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