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I don’t know why this is a surprise to anyone. Trump is famous for not paying contractors and workers. He waits it out until they sue and his expensive lawyers beep the plaintiffs dry or settle for some fraction of the contract price.
The new distraction from the Epstein files is here!
So Trump is tanking the economy and burning through cash so bad he has to take money from people without jobs.
Technically this would boost "the economy" in the way these guys measure it by increasing corporate profits and stock values because companies will be able to squeeze there workers for more output with the greater threat of unaided unemployment.
But lowering wages would decrease consumer spending
A majority of consumer spending is now done by the top 20%, as long as this doesn't effect them the corporate overlords don't give a fuck.
Check me if I’m wrong but the only thing he can cut is the administration funding. The actual benefits are funded by a type of insurance companies pay into. Trump can’t take that away.
All this will do is make processing claims a bitch.
He’s such a dick.
WTAF? We all pay into this shit.
Your employer pays into it, but most of that goes to the state.
But yeah, if they aren't going to pay out. Why should I keep paying it.
It doesn’t matter what it is, if it’s for working class, then it’s a terrible idea and needs to go.
Sesame Street FFS.
I do think this is Vought though. Trump is too addled at this point in time.
Currently on unemployment thanks to the tech industry. I wonder what my trump loving family members will think when I bring this up the next time they ask me how the job hunt is going.
Knowing Trump fans, they're going to say it's a good thing, it'll make you get up and get a job sooner rather than laying around "wasting time on the government dime". Cause they all probably believe it's very easy to get another job.
Wait, do we actually have unemployment assistance in the US? I thought it was just a slush fund for boondoggles I was forced to pay into. Every time I've tried to apply for it over the last 20 years I was rejected.
Maybe it depends on what state you’re in, but I have used it between jobs after being laid off. I was actually very surprised how well it worked. This was durning Biden’s term.
Can the Americans pull Trump and his Goonies out of the White House please?
Beating the wife and the kids at home when he got his ass kicked at the pub.
Just die already.
Cool. Do it. I cannot wait to see what happens before he realizes that his base are beneficiaries of unemployment.
Do they like riots and open rebellion, because letting people starve is how you get riots and open rebellions…
Fuck it, let him. I'm so sorry for all the innocents this will impact, but I'm so over this "I'm going to do something terrible to my own supporters, maybe." Shit.
Let him year down all the shit his supporters have become reliant on, but have no clue.
Fuck 'em all. Die mad and broke you pieces of shit.
When he breaks California, I hope the red states will like living in cardboard boxes and eating dirt.
All the fraud is in his home and with his friends. Even if all the people receiving benefits were making fraudulent claims, it would probably amount to less than he and his family are grifting from the US governemnt this year.
The biggest waste in the USA right now is the oxygen keeping him alive.
