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5. The corporations making these decisions are NOT on the "front lines."
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 09:55 AM
Dec 2024

When "Joe Public" finds he has no possibility of paying for a life-saving operation or medication for himself or family or will lose his home over restructured fees or is denied SS for himself or parents and can't find a decent paying job, he has nothing to lose.
Somehow, he'll find a way to acquire the means to walk into a SS Office, Hospital, Work Place or other corporate owned establishment and "remove" as many people as possible because he's at wit's end and there's nothing else he can do.
The sad part is, and it's too bad if the purtians around here think this is oh-so-touchy, that those who make the decisions don't give a damn what happens to their underlings regardless and won't ever be the ones or their families to receive Joe's "payback."
Until those in power suffer similarly, nothing will be done by them. And before those here start with the BS that we "need to go high" instead, try being in Joe's position.
It's nice to say what we should do because we're not like that until you become like that because of a situation created by those greedy in power. And in case you may not have noticed (not on DU, of course) but those who think we need to turn the other cheek are probably not in or near Joe's situation. So it's easy for them to come off high and mighty.

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