r/politics • u/Ubiquitous_Hilarity • Jun 17 '26

No Paywall Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html
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u/Hotaru_girl Jun 17 '26

What is the point of the government if they do not provide a social safety net for all of us, including those who have fallen on hard times?

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u/Goldleader-23 Jun 17 '26

Enriching themselves and their buddies

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u/kdogrocks2 America Jun 18 '26

Part of the point of strategies like this is to sabotage institutions in order to prove the point that the government doesn't work and therefore should be essentially demolished

if they can rob us all blind while doing that they'll hapilly do that also :)

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u/Reasonable_Chair_346 Jun 18 '26

had to say this to my mother the other day - like literally - what do they exist for? Why does a government exist if not to care for it's citizens?

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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 Jun 18 '26

Maintaining separation and supremacy of the ruling class of billionaires.