Seriously, the Repubs didn't figure out when they took away unemployment

[Glitterati]

all those people/families would now qualify for food stamps, TANF and Medicaid?

When your income is 0, you qualify for it all.

[LuvNewcastle]

1. If it was up to them, all that stuff would be cut out as well.

They would create a new generation of Okies, traveling around from place to place looking for jobs. What this is really about is trying to force people to take whatever shit job they can find. They don't care if people have to relocate their families to work a minimum wage job. They don't care about creating new jobs with decent wages, either. This is the new economy, folks. Work for peanuts or starve.

The TPP will create even more of these shit jobs. The goal is to bring down the American lifestyle to where it's more in line with the rest of the world. We've had it too good here, you know. They won't bring the jobs back until we're accustomed to working for less. This is a wage war between workers and multi-national corporations, and so far, the corporations are way ahead.

[Herself]

2. homes and property taxes not paid

will be snapped up pennies on the dollar.

The plantation owners will be celebrating their plunder, and enjoy having their slaves back. The new equal opportunity slave owners, they don't care what race you are.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. A lot of us are already debt slaves, and Blackstone Group is already

America's largest landlord. What you describe is happening as we speak.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024386540

[A Simple Game]

13. It's better than having their slaves back.

You had to house, feed, and provide health care to slaves or you could lose some of your asset.

Now they don't have to house, feed, and they obviously don't want to provide health care.

Costs them a lot less this way. Nobody said they were stupid, just evil.

[jwirr]

12. The Okies at least had somewhere to go that finally worked out - today where is the new California?

This is not going to get better until we start learning from FDR how to make things better and I do not mean a war.

[valerief]

3. Cuz that way they get to complain about all the "takers". nt

[emanymton]

4. Yes, RepublicanTs Do Understand The Effects Of Their Efforts.

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This is not single level program. The destruction of the social welfare net is multilevel projects design to take apart the system. The people involved are of no consequence.

RepublicanTs are paid not to care. Callous indifference to the well-being of people is rewarded.

Focus. The money-class is all about profit. The minions of the money-class are to do the bidding for the money-class. The minions play their parts in the tragedy believing the destruction will not affect the minions.

When minions are finally caught up in the losing end of the game, the minions are truly surprised. But by then, the wholesale damage is done.

Ema Nymton
~ @ : o ?
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[liberal N proud]

6. One rung at a time!

They will work next to take away those benefits at well.

[Scuba]

8. ...

[TBF]

9. And we know which actions to take -

From mid 1930's to mid 1980's at best (roughly a 50 year span) this country figured out that too little $$$ in the hands of too few (think the the 1920's gilded age and resulting depression in 30s) didn't work. Well, it works for the uber-wealthy but it does not work for the rest of us. So in the interest of saving capitalism laws were passed to ensure a safety net. Taxation was also increased on high-earning individuals - and in my view ought to include corporations (particularly multi-nationals) paying taxes.

We could do this again if we wanted to.

[JDPriestly]

10. Right. And if they cut Social Security which allows the average recipient to live just a tad above

the poverty level, the same thing will happen. Many seniors who now get by on Social Security will qualify for all kinds of programs based on need.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

11. Sure they get it- That's why they want to cut all that other stuff too

n/t