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In reply to the discussion: What do we HONESTLY BELIEVE the reaction will be if Musk shuts down SS payments for 73,000,000 Americans? [View all]patphil
(8,734 posts)Things like rent, utilities, food, health care, automobile upkeep, clothing...it goes on and on.
Add to that all the fired Social Security workers and a similar impact from their loss of income, and you've got the makings of a recession.
This will cause our economy to grind to a halt. And I'm not even including all the losses that are about to be inflicted on people receiving medicare, medicaid, veterans benefits, etc, and the places that money would be spent.
Deep recession, diving toward depression.
This is a deliberate dismantling of the US economy.
I see this as a means of goading the citizenry into riots and violence, so Trump can declare marshal law, and call out the military to "restore order".
Exit our Constitutional Democratic Republic, and enter dictatorship.
Because of their inaction, I can only conclude that the Republicans in Congress are OK with this.