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Such a sad era we live in.

Federal funding has been drastically cut or completely eradicated for necessary social services.

The intentions were to have the states take care of this, but they were given no time, no warning and no plans of potential actions to do so.

Now, we are forming charities just to provide food for kids, medical care for the unemployed, homes for the homeless, and all the other social services that are not just desperately needed, but have been severely underfunded for decades.

Meanwhile, no one wants to tax the rich to pay for these services, no one wants to pay higher taxes, or any taxes for that matter, to cover these extremely necessary social services, and no one has spare money to donate because of the inflation and tarrifs adding to their financial pains.

Let's quit relying on outside things like charities and government to provide social services and create strong communities that encompass people who provide all those services with equity. Becuase it's obvious no one is coming to our rescue. We have to rescue each other.
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ScreamingFox · 41-45, F
I was thinking last night, instead of taxing income, tax sales. That way people keep the money they earn. If a billionaire wants to buy a yacht, they pay the huge taxes on it and that supports the system. It's not perfect, but I've said a million times...

The wealthy don't get and stay wealthy because they're generous. They cheat the system far more than someone who needs Medicaid. Privilege should come with responsibilities. Those of us on the bottom are working as much as we can, breaking our bodies for a system that now denies us the right to heal and have lives outside of work. While the rich sit on heaps of money, or heaps of debt. It's the wealthy that throw the system off, but if they punish the poor, they avoid any involvement in their community aside from petty handouts that make them look good.

Eat the rich.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@CountScrofula Sadly, by labor taking and owning the means of production (*cough* unions *cough*) it is too communist for the authoritarian dictator lovers.

I still wonder how their brains circumvents some topics while fully embracing others. It's wild to me.
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
@FoxyQueen Unemployment is up now. But magically, Trump fired his statistics person (because math is rigged) and now it's down! How's that for a dystopian soceity?
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@JimboSaturn Yay!!! Misinformation and deception! Strong American standards!
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
Let's quit relying on outside things like charities and government to provide social services and create strong communities that encompass people who provide all those services with equity. Becuase it's obvious no one is coming to our rescue. We have to rescue each other.

This is such an important thing to underline here. Nobody is coming to save you. So team up and work together. Build something beautiful because they will not do it for you.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@CountScrofula I think, thanks to things like social media, fear of crime, fear of others, fear of lazy people, fear of others using other people, we have made it nearly impossible to create community like we used to.

I see so many people of all different ages saying online, "I don't have friends!" but they also aren't always looking beyond online for face to face friends because of whatever reasons. They have unlearned how to be friends. And making friends in real life means literally going up to people in social situations and just talking to them.

We knew how to do it as kids.why don't we do this as adults? Why did we stop talking to people and consider them friends once we vibed?

Do I consider everyone I talk to a friend? No, but I also don't consider them not potential friends.

We have truly forgotten how to socialize with one another beyond words on a screen. We are very much Wall-E people.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
You are correct all the way down the line. But please explain to me how you intend to rescue each other while both the government and the corporate sector continue to extract more from you directly and by stealth at every turn?😷
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@whowasthatmaskedman Yeah, I get what you are saying. It's a matter of retraining ourselves. Cities do make it harder because the people in them are more reliant on the system. Smaller yards, more regulations on what they can do on their own properties, etc. Utilities. I hear you.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@FoxyQueen We have a government funded scheme here thats has assited people to put PV panels on the roof of their own home. I took advantage myself almost ten years ago and it covering the majority of my electrical bill, summer and winter. (But we dont get snow) Now there is a new scheme out to offer PV Panels AND a battery, so we could be independent of the grid or even feed back into it. Heavily subsidized and paid off against the power bill we would have had. I just cant imagine a system like that happening in America.😷
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@whowasthatmaskedman Yeah, Americans have a strange attachment to their limited resources and increasing costs because of them. I don't get it at all.
Mellowgirl · 31-35, F
Unfortunately the people at the top that could change this funnily enough will never experience this hardship. So they don't care...

They look at everything as a numbers game, nothing with humanity.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@Mellowgirl we have far too many bean counters in this world worried about potential overages where they think they don't belong.
Mellowgirl · 31-35, F
@FoxyQueen it's a truly awful world we are living in.

And I don't know where this meanness has come from
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@Mellowgirl The fear that somehow in the Land of Plenty, there won't be enough for them.
EBSVC · 36-40, T
My state doesn’t have the money to do shit. We are a net drain on the national economy, completely unviable on our own, and rely massively on tax money from larger states to sustain us.

I don’t think people here realize that though. Because we also don’t have money for schools 🙃
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@EBSVC I think that is a huge portion of people in these states.
EBSVC · 36-40, T
@FoxyQueen Yea it’s mostly red states. Oh the crushing irony
Let's just say if Trump hears you need support he will find every program to take away from you.
fun4us2b · M
The people that need these things voted for a guy that promised to abolish these things.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
It’s truly sad how much money we spend on weapons and not on our own people
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
Welcome to the golden age. Soon the military will be in towns that democratic, all the government officials that don't further Trump's reality will be fired, and Trump will dictate everything from sports inductees to the hall of fame, or what is taught in schools. Goodbye free press. Maps are being redrawn as we speak.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@JimboSaturn I wrote to my state Senator today telling him how his own party has literally done nothing other than post snarky memes and wring hands as they approve all of his people into office. That with their lack of actual strong action, they have helped the demise of democracy and the nation. At this point, I can only assume our congresspeople are complicit in what is happening. None of them seem to be addressing anything anymore. And with that the hope of people is rapidly dying.
Infamous607 · 51-55, M
Well that's not going to happen.
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markinkansas · 61-69, M
it will get to the point .. of let them eat cake..

 
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