Thinking this morning about how many American disabled people and our families, and elderly people, are just a 2-weeks-late check away from homelessness - ThreadSky

criminalerin.bsky.social • 18 hours ago

Thinking this morning about how many American disabled people and our families, and elderly people, are just a 2-weeks-late check away from homelessness

Reposted from Marisa Kabas

"It is no exaggeration to say this will kill people—mainly people who are elderly, disabled and/or poor. Society’s most vulnerable sit in the crosshairs of our nation’s wealthiest people who have absolutely everything, but somehow always want more."

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therebis1475.bsky.social•17 hours ago

The chaos is by ideological based design to show Americans that government can't and won't work. It all started with the GOP mantra: The nine most terrifying words in the English launguage are, "I"m from the Government and I'm here to help."- Reagan

deehellcat.bsky.social•16 hours ago

this. They are working toward a self-fulfilling prophecy. Make govt crash, then tell people 'look, govt crashed! we'll have to privatize it all'. /rage

empirical62.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Please share this

https://youtu.be/3i3SHO2bsls?si=3XaiUsrAe4EnPnJ0

jocastaway.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Without getting too dramatic, is it fair to say that Mr. Lynch departed in a very timely fashion just as BOB took over the US govt?

“What year is this”?!!!

More to the point: where are our Laura & Coop? Because we sure as hell need them now

scottlegrand.bsky.social•16 hours ago

And I'm sure low information voters will find a way to blame Joe Biden for this.

koutavi.bsky.social•16 hours ago

and a few more missed checks means those disabled and elderly will then just be dead from a lack of medical/assistive care. people on medicaid aren't allowed savings. because then we're not poor enough to "need" it. meaning there is no safety net, we will just die.

seems like that's their goal.

bierquaffer.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Do people who are already receiving benefits require a federal employee to make a direct deposit? Is it not automated?

criminalerin.bsky.social•16 hours ago

It SHOULD be automated once you're approved but all it takes is one weird little update or error to bring the whole system down by when the workforce has been cut down by half all at once and the rats get in the walls to gnaw at the wires

criminalerin.bsky.social•16 hours ago

People currently awaiting approval though jfc it's such a dehumanizing miserable often years long process on the best of days but now? I cannot imagine, it's horrifying and I send my love and solidarity to everyone in this needless hateful limbo

cccp.bsky.social•17 hours ago

hahaha it's me (im terrified)

brokeshealds.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Which is now illegal in many places
This time around everyone in a Hooverville will be arrested

will99.bsky.social•16 hours ago

….and I bet a good number of them voted Maga……

gardenmonster.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I fully expect my grandmother, in her mid-90s, to be forced out of her senior center, forced to move hundreds of miles, and move in with me. That doesn't solve her healthcare needs. It's not like you can add a grandparent to your healthcare plan like you can add a child.

hotgirlchristmas.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The past decade has seen massive increases in rents & inflation, & yet disability did not budge.

Covid gave americans a taste of inconvenience, & rather than employing empathy they have punched down to ease their feelings of inadequacy.

Men who cause suffering are rewarded while the sufferers die.

seamfinder.bsky.social•17 hours ago

There are 8 of us supporting someone in their own homelessness talking about how we're pretty much weeks away ourselves

seamfinder.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Listened last night to Dean saying "money can't liberate us when we're all poor" and thinking about this topic a lot.

theakscott.bsky.social•17 hours ago

And if there was any federal money or personnel dedicated to help the unhoused, that's probably been cut as well.

I have a mentally ill mother that oscillates between living on the streets and in prison. We already don't have enough help out there.

lfeatfan.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Trump said that there would be some pain associated with the cuts they're going to make. But he can't relate to the poor and disabled because he's never been there and doesn't associate with those people. His lack of empathy means he doesn't really care what happens to those people

criminalerin.bsky.social•18 hours ago

"Evictions are violence" is a statement of fact, not a baseless anarchist slogan

criminalerin.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Are our retirement plans just prison and death? Will we even get to live to be old? Is it good when entire generations have nothing to look forward to at all?

russbengtson.bsky.social•18 hours ago

ah well at least there are like 300 million guns lying around

probgobl.in•17 hours ago

I remember one of the fundie phrases that got used a lot when I was in highschool was "we are the last generation" and I'll be damned if they don't seem to have pulled that one off.

Amazing commitment to the bit.

ygrene.bsky.social•17 hours ago

it’s insane- i’ve been anticipating my forced retirement for years due to illness, and it’s right now. like, am i gonna have to readjust my planned death for these fuckers? no SSDI for Giacomo? thankfully i have contingencies but for those that don’t - my god this is terrifying

larkenciel.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The consensus among my peers and I with grown kids is that we will work until we die and thankfully we're more than halfway there.

joodmjn1987.bsky.social•17 hours ago

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