You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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Yeah I’m 63 and was planning on retiring in a couple of years, but now I’ll probably have to work until I die for both reasons. Not the country I thought I would ever see.
Well, it hasn't happened yet, but they're aiming to do that. Medicaid is responsible for a plan that gives meals to the elderly who can't afford it. What're they gonna do now, eat boiled shoe leather like grandma used to make in 1929?
Hopefully 😳 🤞🤞🤞. My mom died young, late 80s- sepsis. My mom's ma died at 97 (a stroke). Her ma at 99. My dad's ma at 104+, her ma at 104 minus 4 days. Prior gens were similar, back to the early 1800s. I have a few decades left 🤪. I'd like to have food, shelter & at least basic medical care.
Told mom of my health agency’s research cuts. If it’s not about today/tomorrow, it’s zero response. She didn’t know about the signal chat. Trump golfed when US dead soldiers arrived in Dover even though Lithuania lined their streets. The crap I would hear if Biden did that. Refuses to digest truth.
Biden made the error of looking at his son's watch and they had a heart attack. Golfing is a-ok to them though. Good cultists hold 15 conflicting ideas in their head at once when they are told to.
Yep. Big Capital's American Dream was that you and I worked until we were 65, then we retired and moved to FL and died within the following year so that they could get a commission reselling our retirement homes.
Yes they literally are trying to kill seniors/retirees because they aren’t “productive” according to their demented metrics. They will turn us into biodiesel.
I thought this would be abundantly clear after they told seniors they should sacrifice themselves for the economy back in 2020. But seniors have kept right on voting majority Republicans since.
I’m firmly convinced this is a plan to kill off the elderly. They consider them deadwood. They can’t perform the labor they need so they are worthless to them. Remember the politician in Texas who said that the elderly were expendable during the pandemic?
(Note: since Texas prefers that we use names at birth, I won't refer to him as Dan Patrick out of respect for their strange Texan customs so as not to risk offense)
Let me trace something…🧵
COVID, Sweden “Many elderly people were administered morphine instead of oxygen despite available supplies, effectively ending their lives”
Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell responsible for this, allied with new head of NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, who just sponsored this COVID contrarian conference at Stanford
Obviously, people with money don’t have to worry. Repugnican politicians, either. What have they been promised for being traitors to our constitution? Must be something pretty nice.
Yep, same thought. Seems increasingly possible that their goal is to 'thin the herd.' And not just old people but the sick and weak at large. The quip I've been using: 'After all, how many people can you get on a spaceship to Mars anyway?'
I suspect the same thing. The Republicans have never cared about the elderly even in the 80’s after they made changes is SS and I saw my mothers retirement get significantly worse. However if you are elderly and have billions of dollars they will want to keep you around. Sick as fuck.
It’s true. But it’s only part of the plan. The lower birth rate means they’ll need to pay back social security soon if the old folks don’t die. Which means GOP will be forced to admit that it was a bad idea. Bc there will be some austerity
That's the plan--then SS would equilibriate. It's us Boomers throwing all out of wack. Like we had no choice about our parents after having half the # of kids their parents had--still too many! Overpopulation solutions: war, or put aged out in the cold. These bozos intend both sans creative ideas.
Plus climate change. I see-saw wildly these days between trying to save pennies and spending with abandon because who knows if I'll get to enjoy it later.
What I don't understand is if the poor/surplus all die due to famine/flood, how will these rich peeps survive without the workers to provide their services?
I think they haven’t thought this through. They think AI will run everything. Only problem is ‘we the people’ aren’t really loving AI as much as they’d hoped, and it’s still only behaving like a 5yr old. When we all die off they’ll have a teen AI running it all. We all know how that’s gonna end. 🤣
As someone without retirement (who then lost nothing in the stock market) who plans to work her whole life, I say spend it! There wasn’t going to be any cash for my kids, so I’m not going to live my life trying to save it. I want to live a fun life and thankfully I have a job that’ll be doable.
Reminds me of the Obama-era healthcare debate and the placard in the Senate that said, “Republican healthcare plan: Die Quickly” (or words to that effect).
We are all encouraged to eat right and exercise in order to live longer.
Those extra years we get are in our 80s and 90s, when we have no way to earn an income.
Lot of longevity in my family. I, similarly, realized my projections of making it to 100 no longer male sense. A revised timeline of getting to 70 seems much more realistic. To loosely quote Carl from Caddyshack talking to the Dalai Lama - So, I got that going for me.
Something along these lines occurred to me the other day. Trump and Musk believe in superior humans, and the old and disabled are not among them, in their view. They'd like to see them gone and probably think taking care of them is counterproductive to their mission.
I really don’t want to live through this admin. If I die, then I die, so what. I feel depressed about it every fucking day. This is 1930’s Germany reincarnated.
💯. Authoritarianism 101: keep the populace poor, ill and uneducated so they are easier to control. Then throw them a bone every once in a while to make them bow down to the dear leader. The last point is coming, and we can’t let America fall for it.
What trump and the gop couldn’t kill with how they handled Covid this time around they are making sure less middle class lower class relying on help the more money in their evil pockets.
Fuck Trump… the world waits with an unbridled George Constanza kind of Heinz Ketchup anticipation for the McDonald’s and KFC karma to do their job and save the world from … Trump..!!
Trump can ‘go after’ everyone who didn’t "cow down" to his moronic rants but health Karma can’t be stopped.
Don't leave off the wholesale gutting of the Department of Education; that way, your kids will be so ignorant they won't ever be able to connect these dots...
Likewise, your kids’ 529 college savings plans may be in the toilet, but the administration is planning on having them work the assembly line in stateside iPhone factories instead of going to college anyway. So it all works out!
Don’t mean to be a party pooper, but seniors are terrified right now and for a lot them between the risks to Medicare and Social Security it’s literally a life threatening situation and not at all funny.
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I wonder if they have that extra $500,000+ in savings to make up for the loss of Social Security and Medicare.
Also MAGA: “Everyone here wears khakis and thinks Coldplay is edgy.”
i'll race you to the cemetery.
(Note: since Texas prefers that we use names at birth, I won't refer to him as Dan Patrick out of respect for their strange Texan customs so as not to risk offense)
COVID, Sweden “Many elderly people were administered morphine instead of oxygen despite available supplies, effectively ending their lives”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01097-5
https://medium.com/@wat3rm370n/anders-tegnell-speaker-at-stanford-university-maga-adjacent-political-event-ad9e0d3b7ee3
https://www.thenerdreich.com/why-musk-trump-tech-elites-seek-collapse-of-global-order/
German Nazi poster blaming the sick and disabled people.
We really need an edit button!!!!!
Add to this all the spaces used by the deported, you will be winning.
Please do not take this as financial advice.
The administration would appreciate it if you would starve like a patriot.
We are all encouraged to eat right and exercise in order to live longer.
Those extra years we get are in our 80s and 90s, when we have no way to earn an income.
Also 😡💔 that it's true.
Rod Serling knew.
#handsoff 50501 #womensmarch
#fightfascism #fdt #fuckmusk
We will all be dead before we retire.
I’d rather have someone in office die before me to ensure my survival.
Good point
You got it
They are engineering a die-off of people who they feel are useless to society.
Their bottom line? If you can't work and aren't rich, you should just die.
I'm a whole dead person rn
Only for worse.
and they don’t like it.
Trump can ‘go after’ everyone who didn’t "cow down" to his moronic rants but health Karma can’t be stopped.
https://theplotagainstamerica.com
The most needy will be hurt the most! 😡
😶
🤣 #dadjokes
Now he is going to bankrupt all of us.