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Ryan Cooper Article at prospect.org I suspect there are two factors at work here. First is a total lack of understanding as to the vast scale of the federal government. If Medicaid were to be illegally defunded, it would instantly cause multiple simultaneous crises. Most obviously, about 20 percent of Americans would be thrown off their insurance. Medical providers, particularly hospitals in rural and low-income urban regions, would lose a major source of funding, leading to mass bankruptcies. And the American economy writ large would suffer a massive austerity shock, with over 2 percent of GDP vanishing overnight. All the businesses that relied on the spending of Medicaid-funded doctors, nurses, and so on would go belly-up, and so on, quite possibly triggering a recession. What is true of Medicaid is only somewhat less true of hundreds of other government programs also under assault from Trump. By protecting the purity of our food, water, and medicines; the safety of road and air travel; the integrity of our financial system; and in hundreds of other ways, the government enables modern society to function.
Sam Adler bell article from New York Magazine deliberate. As the horrors mounted, the Bider administration stood by, repeating obscene lies to justify the unjustifiable and providing a record $17.9 billion in aid to the Israel: military. Reports of Joe's behind-the-scenes frustration with Bibi insult our intelligence the Israelis have flagrantly trespassed every "red line" issued by the White House without consequence. As Gazans starve, USAID and the State Department's refugees bureau have both confirmed that Israel is deliberately obstructing humanitarian assistance-a war crime. But Biden has not changec course. He does not mourn—he abides Gaza summons an inhuman coarseness in Biden's defenders, urging them to deny fragility in its starkest form, the susceptibility of the body to maiming, fire, and death. (For the fiercest propagandists, even children are denied their status as fragile: They are not children but human shields.)
uss_hoboken 1d Just repeatedly punch me in the gut with a spiked glove. It would be less painful than this. Reply 14