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.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@ScreamingFox God forbid fox, that sound perilously like fairness and socialism.

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@JimboSaturn

ScreamingFox · 41-45, F

@JimboSaturn oh I know it, how dare people want to be able to feed their children even though they aren't wealthy. How come they can't just be wealthy, it's so easy anyone who works hard enough can do it 🙄 just get a job with health insurance, even though you can't afford it and it doesn't cover anything.

My son and I have been on Medicaid for 8+ years. I have ignored the attitudes and poor treatment because having it saved both our lives regardless of people's idea that we don't deserve handouts. Trump is trying to eradicate his own people because we're inferior. His own people.

I swear if I wasn't the only person my son had I would blow that orange man sky high.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@ScreamingFox I can't imagine living in a country where standard medical care isn't free. Losing your house because you get sick or paying crazy high insurance and debating weather you should go to the doctor or not. Simply inhuman.

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@ScreamingFox

How come they can't just be wealthy, it's so easy anyone who works hard enough can do it 🙄 just get a job with health insurance, even though you can't afford it and it doesn't cover anything.

Or do what they did and let their parents hand them all the cash and assets they need to do whatever they want with it and never love a realistic life like everyone else. 😐

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@FoxyQueen It's a new kind of feudalism really the rich keep all the wealth and keep getting more. The new King dictates what everyone does now.

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@JimboSaturn Which honestly, if that is where we are truly headed, then strong community has historically been the answer to opposing this. When you stop you total reliance on the system, the system has no power.

ScreamingFox · 41-45, F

@JimboSaturn I can't even pay my taxes this year because the state re-appraised my house at some ungodly amount I could never sell it for. The working class is being demolished. The sick, the single parents, the struggling on their own, it's like they're trying to eradicate us. It truly feels like soon enough we'll be forcibly gathering in the town square to praise our king who won't even make eye contact with us.

ScreamingFox · 41-45, F

@FoxyQueen they have no idea what real is and forcing the fantasy will backfire as it has always throughout history. Poor leaders build weak reigns that crumble easily. Mr pres and his maga cult are delusional extremists.

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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!