Big Beautiful Bill Keeps Falling Apart, Will Pass Anyway

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Lemmy

We’re fucked. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, medical research, public education. It’s all not going to exist.
I don’t even understand why the boomers want this shit gone — so many of them rely on Medicare and SSI entirely. They all claim that because they ‘paid into it their whole lives’ that they are due a disbursement. But like usual, boomers are concerned about theirs; none of us who have been working for almost 20 years at this point will receive the same benefit.
Honestly, I’m in the EU and I fully expect the same thing to happen here, just more gradually than in the US. I will never be able to get out of social security what I’ve been forced to put in my entire life. And that would be okay if it meant it went to people who actually needed it…
It certainly does feel like a worldwide phenomenon, doesn’t it? Hopefully that means there is a worldwide ‘awakening from a bad dream’, too.