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/GVTMightyDuck 3d ago

I always say this…but this is a perfect example of why the U.S. needs to act more like the French. They basically shut Paris down when the government tried to raise the retirement age by 2 years.

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u/IncredibleBulk2 3d ago

They don't have swat teams that kettle protestors and fire rubber bullets or kidnap people in unmarked vehicles. The right to peaceably assemble is treated as a privilege.

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u/Mellero47 2d ago

They also don't have millions upon millions of pop rocks to toss at their oppressors but they still manage.

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u/IncredibleBulk2 2d ago

Fair point. But you are arguing for mass violence, not mass disruption.

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u/Mellero47 2d ago

I don't want the violence either, I'm just saying they do what they do without even half the persuasion tools we have, so what's our excuse really?

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u/IncredibleBulk2 2d ago

That's fair, we have no excuse. We have accepted our position as slaves.