I don't understand the people who believe there's some magic fountain dispensing good things to the world at no cost, and that meanspirited Republicans want to turn off the spigot so that the magic stops flowing. There is nothing the government provides that doesn't come at someone's expense on some level: either current taxpayers (who are deprived of the ability to spend that money on something else, such as on a service the government currently provides or investing in the economy) or our unborn grandchildren who'll be slapped with the enormous and still steadily compounding tab once they come of working age. Sometimes this cost is worth paying, and sometimes it isn't.
You lost your job because of Elon? STFU. Stuff it. Swallow it. Choke on it. We all have to suffer because you lack the ability to see truth and think critically.
Why lmao the private sector does a better at job creation and it's not even close. In 2023 the Fed employed about 0.61% of the US population with a budget amounting to nearly 23% of GDP. About 88% of US GDP in the same year came from the private sector, which employed about 40% of the population. To do the math, the private sector is about 16x more efficient at this purpose than the USFG dollar for dollar. Sure, the layoffs won't be fun for those on the receiving end, but they will find new jobs.
Your child gets sick with e-coli. Stuff it. You get the measles, stuff it.
Not going to happen, and there were anti-vaxxers refusing to give their kids measles shots long before RFK became Secretary of the HHS. The CDC reported that between January 1 and October 1 of 2019, there were 1,249 cases of measles and 22 "measles outbreaks" in 31 states and New York City. At the time that was the most reported cases in a single year since 1992, clearly indicating an upward trend thanks to anti-vaxxers that has continued to the present.
Your bank rips you off? Stuff it. Your local health clinic closes? The air and water you breathe is filthy now? Stuff it.
Oh look, more stuff that's not going to happen.
You lost your health care, suck it.
I can see picture two scenarios here. Door A, Medicare/Medicaid is not significantly cut, and as a result this doesn't happen to a significant number of people. Door B, Medicare/Medicaid is cut badly enough for this to happen. The deficit shrinks by hundreds of billions of dollars, if not a cool trillion. The degree to which our national collapse is slowed justifies this. Worst case scenario, a lot of Americans lose but America at large wins. Best case scenario, RFK actually does a good job and shrinks the 7.24 million word corpus of HHS regulations to a compact size, removing costly and complicated hurdles to investment in the healthcare sector, creating market competition and improving service at all levels. Maybe at some point healthcare becomes affordable for most people without insurance, for the first time in decades.
They sold off public lands for logging near your home, stuff it!
Yeah no, I'm not particularly worried about this.
Fema isn't there to help you after the hurricane? Stuff it.
Again, FEMA can give nothing that isn't forcibly redistributed from someone else. And in some cases they do nothing but give you a tarp to place over your damaged roof. The long-term solution to natural disasters is to build more housing outside of disaster zones (such as those areas with a low risk rating for floods), and less within disaster zones, such as the Pacific Palisades. To subsidize housing located within disaster zones discourages this transition.
Your cousin dies of sepsis because she couldn't get an abortion, stuff it.
If, hypothetically, my cousin died in the process of trying to murder her baby, I wouldn't feel too bad about it.
You can't afford groceries and the food banks are closed, too fucking bad, go hungry.
I'll take "stuff that didn't happen" for $500. There's an ongoing bird flu epidemic which began before Trump took office, and this is driving up the price of eggs. But people don't need eggs to live.
Your income is down because no tourists want to visit your eatery?
If our friends would turn on us just like that after decades of subsidizing their defense over what's objectively a nothing burger, then some friends they were. Good riddance.
Your nephew gets disappeared by ICE, stuff it.
You mean my nephew was an illegal immigrant who faced consequences for his illegal actions, and either the facility he was kept in was overcrowded or he was sent to the wrong place on an administrative error because Congress refused to appropriate an extra dime to actually enforce our immigration laws and ensure that ICE was up to the task of managing the bigger caseload? Yeah, that's unfortunate.
You just spit on and dishonored every person who served our country and the family members of those who sacrificed for our freedoms...
Many who served our country and sacrificed for our freedoms voted for Trump, and this woman would gladly spit on them.
