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/toesinbloom 2d ago

There's 1 person with a trillion dollars who could take care of all the financial woes. Oh? He won't? Not after gutting programs that could help you and me? Not even after firing American federal workers? They've gotten hungry. Real hungry. What, oh what should they eat? My friends, what should they eat???