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William Lindsey :toad:

"Despite their constant reassurances to the contrary, Republicans have officially begun the process of cutting Medicaid and SNAP benefits to offset the cost of tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. And right on cue, Republicans are playing dumb."

~ Brian Tyler Cohen


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Brian Tyler Cohen · Republicans play dumb on Medicaid cutsBy Brian Tyler Cohen
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Medicaid is especially important for rural and small-town Americans, even if they aren’t beneficiaries themselves, because it helps keep health care accessible."

~ Paul Krugman


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Paul Krugman · Cruel and Usual: Republicans Prepare to Gut MedicaidBy Paul Krugman
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William Lindsey :toad:

"All in all, if Republicans think they can slash Medicaid without paying a heavy political price, because only Those People will be hurt, they’re going to be mightily surprised. According to one recent poll, 71 percent of Trump voters say that cutting Medicaid would be unacceptable."


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William Lindsey :toad:

"What we’re seeing is that for all the talk about how the G.O.P. is now the party of the working class, the policy agenda is as cruelly plutocratic as ever: Take away health care from Americans who need it so you can cut taxes for the wealthy."


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William Lindsey :toad:

"President in Name Only (PINO) Donald Trump and acting president Elon Musk might be able to bamboozle some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot bamboozle all of the people all of the time (to paraphrase Lincoln)."

~ Jennifer Rubin


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The Contrarian · Reality CountsBy Jennifer Rubin
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William Lindsey :toad:

"And, hard as they may try, not even Fox News or the rest of the captive MAGA media can hide inflation, layoffs, and consistently bad economic news. That is a problem for a president who misled the voters by campaigning on how easily he would 'bring down' prices."


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William Lindsey :toad:

"And so here we are. Remarkably, we have gone from an economy that was the 'envy of the world' to 'a scary place to invest' in the brief time the Musk-Trump administration has been in power."


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William Lindsey :toad:

"Donald Trump’s assault on the US federal government and the world’s interlinked manufacturing system have together reached an economic tipping point.

'It seems almost unavoidable that we are headed for a deep, deep recession,' said Jesse Rothstein, Berkeley professor and former chief economist at the US labour department."

~ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard


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The Telegraph · Economists are starting to worry about a serious Trump recessionBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Gurre Vildskägg

@wdlindsy
um...
Starting to?
Maybe I'm a cynical leftie, but this would seem to me to be obviously locked in from when he won the election?

William Lindsey :toad:

@Gurre Perhaps economists don't always see what's evidence to many of the rest of us.

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