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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe new MAGAt buzzword
Fraud.
I see the claim of fraud being cried over everything as justification for cutting all social programs, to the point that the word fraud is becoming meaningless in and of itself.
Widespread voter fraud does not exist, nor were the daycare fraud accusations substantiated, but they sure were used to cut, cut, cut. Nick Shirley isnt some great journalist, just some partisan hack like LibsofTikTok - one looks the other way when the cult leader pardons fraudsters, the other looks the other way when someone from their side sexually abuses children.
The truth is is that none of us have any money. Its all the governments money and government knows how to spend our money better than we do. I am a statist, believe it would be better if we abandoned the belief in any God for a worship of the state, but we need to elect Democrats to do so.
The felon letting states trying to handle daycare, Medicare and Medicaid is a disaster, as these things are better done at the federal level, not the state level, that we have an outdated Constitution and need more social programs, not less, and we also need less war to invest in our citizens.
Its not fraud to look over our fellow people with tax dollars, which is not more important than other peoples well being.
Fraud, as being used, is devolving into a completely meaningless term.
Orrex
(67,115 posts)EnergizedLib
(3,046 posts)If we had one party, leftist rule and worshipped the state.
Orrex
(67,115 posts)No thanks.
ornotna
(11,483 posts)No thanks, thats crazy talk.
MustLoveBeagles
(16,422 posts)It wouldn't work. We'd become just as evil & corrupt as the MAGA's. Hard pass.
EnergizedLib
(3,046 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(16,422 posts)underpants
(196,508 posts)Trump Says Theres No Money for Daycare Because We Have to Fight Wars
I said to [Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought], Dont send any money for daycare because the United States cant take care of daycare. That has to be up to a state. We cant take care of daycare. Were a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people, Trump said. Were fighting wars. We cant take care of daycare. You got to let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it, too. They should pay. Theyll have to raise their taxes, but they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up.
Its not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You cant do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country. But all these little things, all these little scams that have taken place, all you have to you have to let states take care of them, Trump continued.
EnergizedLib
(3,046 posts)We can do things at a federal level. It isnt the 18th Century anymore.
LymphocyteLover
(9,853 posts)sop
(18,632 posts)Anybody receiving help from social programs are fraud, in their eyes.
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oberle
(359 posts)that you won't last very long here.
AverageOldGuy
(3,840 posts)Between the time I read the comment and the time it was removed . . . . I read the comment, entered my response, it the POST button, and was told I cannot reply to comments that have been removed !!!!!
Emile
(42,300 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,916 posts)Yeah, there's fraud. He and his toadies have been committing it, on steroids, from the get-go.
LymphocyteLover
(9,853 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(26,958 posts)can carry. No thanks.
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,958 posts)Just another flavor of any of their scare tactics -- racism, anti-gay and anti-trans bigotry, etc. After all, hammering on about welfare queens got them "welfare to work," so why not throw everything at the wall and see what sticks?
IrishAfricanAmerican
(4,472 posts)hadEnuf
(3,617 posts)then they are clearly involved in some kind or terrible fraud right now.
It's how they work. We know this by now.
talking-liberally
(73 posts)insider trading - stock market manipulation
voter suppression
crypto corruption
global human trafficking and rape
- to name just a few
hay rick
(9,607 posts)The adult recognition of the existence of occasional fraud is replaced by a juvenile presumption of fraud everywhere without the bother of collecting evidence. Anecdotal evidence is used to preclude the need for close examination of facts. It's a lifestyle: find your victimhood and we will tell you who to blame.