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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens when they turnoff the SS spigot and make Medicare untenable so no doctors accept it? [/quote]

Most Americans will starve to death, be homeless and die without medical care. [/quote]

There will be massive riots before this happens.  We have so many people relying on these programs for mere survival that our streets will be inundated with elderly beggars like 3rd world and our homeless tent encampments will grow into full fledged shanty towns as people will simply have nowhere to live being unable to afford their own paid off houses or rent control apartments and having no family able to take them in. [/quote]

I'm from a third world country in Africa. We don't have safety nets. Our streets are indeed filled with beggars.  However, we don't have riots and we are not in a civil war. People just die if they are sick and can't afford care or if they are starving and can't afford food

I'm [b]impressed how the average American demands a basic standard of living.[/b] Anything short of that they think a riot will happen.

I do have sympathy for the poor, but not not really if you want my honest opinion. Coming from a country where the government is not there to help you forces you to find ways to survive. 
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You should be

[b]There are a lot of us. Way more than any country in Africa and we've given lots to this country, way more than some ultra rich [/b]

We know this country has the money. Just have to make sure it doesn't spend $500 billion [b]MORE[/b] on military

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/21/trump-hegseth-budget-military/
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idk, but I found the PP triggering in a few aspects.  There are a lot of people in the USA working hard to survive already, we have rural poverty, urban blight, homelessness and our own "shanty towns" e.g. skid row.  No, government isn't taking care of everyone  :roll:  And it's not the point of this conversation.  It's about people who had done everything they could to provide for their lives in retirement and our system that forced us to contribute to the social safety net that people expect to exist for them in their old age because this is by design.  Sudden system breakdown isn't the same as "this is the way of 3rd world and people learn to survive or die", its effect alone would be similar to the effects of major social upheavals or revolutions in an of itself.  [/quote]

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