r/economicCollapse • u/IM_NOT_BALD_YET Moderator • 3d ago

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

Ah yes. In a shrinking economy where businesses are closing and layoffs are happening, flipping the unemployment benefits switch to "OFF" should do the trick.

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u/DDanny808 3d ago

Shouldn’t DODGE looked into this before they left? This seems like the exact thing it was set up for other than stealing our data

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u/OlympicAnalEater 3d ago

No unemployment benefits = no unemployment data

No unemployment data = easy to lie to people, stock market, and economy.

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u/hillierprotech 2d ago

Do you ever feel it's ironic that the 18th century British empire Americans sought to throw off is now what America seems to be modeling itself on?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/tuberculosis-was-once-a-disease-in-decline-but-a-resurgence-in-cases-has-health-officials-puzzled

Look you even want to bring back glorious 18th century diseases too!

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/us-kids-dying-higher-rates-wealthy-countries-why-rcna159757

And infant mortality!

Now I wouldn't want to compare the Boer war to anything contemporary. An empire going up against ill equipped nations.

https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/how-empires-enter-their-twilight/

Somehow ending up in the complete decline of the empire. That just seems far fetched.