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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably.  It’s hard to imagine that they will cut services for children— who really can’t go to work to prove their value, at least as things stand now; implement work requirements for most adults; yet maintain nursing home payments for seniors as part of Medicaid.  I assume these people, um, have a plan for that, since many seniors not in nursing homes are being cared for by family members — who have to leave their jobs and their employer provided health plans, to go on Medicaid in order to provide eldercare.  All of this is so the wealthy can have tax breaks — financed by cutting health care for kids, the elderly,and those who care for them.

So many adults who are on Medicaid are either providing childcare, eldercare, or both, or have lower paying jobs where their limited pay and often limited hours qualify them for Medicaid, SNAP, and other benefits, while the companies like Walmart that employ them get tax breaks funded by working people.

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I don’t know why that would be hard to imagine, they’ve been speed running killing children via Doge since day one.  That’s a feature and not a bug to the people running things.[/quote]

That’s my point, perhaps clumsily stated. They cut resources for children, so, of course they will be cutting resources for older adults.  
I’m sure there are young, rich, DOGE guys noting how many vaccines for children could be paid for with the savings from each day of nursing home care for an elderly person— then cutting both sets of services since RFK Jr and Dr Oz said to.

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Hmmmm. Let's see now.

70+ percent of the federal budget is entitlements (mandatory spending).

We're borrowing or creating out of thin air 50 cents of every dollar the U.S. government spends.

We have low/high inflation, depending who you talk to,  because we're diluting the dollar's worth by doing that, since it's value is based on scarcity, as every currency is.

We're spending $17 Billion a day to keep the fed.gov party going and inflation on the national debt is now more than defense spending.

Should we go to a model where everyone pays half their income to the health care industry and the government does nothing other than pay for health care?[/quote]

70% is not on entitlements.

MAGAs cannot make the argument that budget cutting of $800m on Medicaid is necessary at the same time they are spending $5 trillion on tax cut for rich people.[/quote]

I guess you aren't a numbers person.

It costs $17 BILLION PER DAY to run the federal government.  That's $17 BILLION, 365 days per year.

You're whining about $800 MILLION in cuts? [/quote]

because those 800 million in cuts are material to the people receiving those cuts, to the point that they may not be able to survive any longer[/quote]

The point is you are like Pavlov's dog:  ANY CUTS to anything are too much.  Better wake up.

If this whole damn thing collapses, no one will have anything. Then talk to me about survival.

Young people are already moving overseas when they see what's coming.  They don't want to be stuck for life footing a ponzi scheme.  Honestly, why bother working anymore when half the country skates?[/quote]

Young people are moving overseas to get away from the dictatorship that the US is quickly becoming. 
The US could have continued as the world’s leader. Instead, it’s becoming a dictatorship thanks to Right Wing Evangelicals who want a “Handmaids Tale,  Project 2025” US version of North Korea. Billions spent on a military parade for Trump’s Birthday? 
WTF?
The brain drain has already started.[/quote]

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