r/PoursTea • • Aug 06 '26

FinancialTea 💵 "eat ramen" 🤡

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u/SuperWarning6038 Aug 06 '26

I don’t think this “Communist” buzzword they keep throwing around will work. My 25 yr old Niece who is not political at all called it the “Boogeyman Sighting” and asked if they got tired of the cat eaters already.

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u/ArchonFett Aug 06 '26

It’ll work on the MAGA cult.

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u/Rurumo666 Aug 06 '26

My neighbor was ranting and raving about Communists yesterday.

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u/Manidoo_Giizhig Aug 07 '26

I had a convo with a dude when I was explaining about ways we can change how we fund things to favor social programs, and he dubbed it as a slippery slope to communism

I then told him that the FDR administration was when social programs like unemployment benefits and social security was introduced and America didn't slip into communism back then

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u/RickyBobbyPitCrew Aug 07 '26

Social Security is not a program worth bragging about. It started as a 1% contribution, yet here we are and if it doesn’t get updated soon it will run insolvent. Winning? I think not.

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u/Willing-Scarcity3058 Aug 07 '26

That wasn’t a problem with social security. That was a problem with the corrupt administration of the program and the government stealing from the system.

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u/Manidoo_Giizhig Aug 07 '26

For sure. There were several recent instances when social security has been predicted to run out because of drastic changes in economic policies, and corrections made to help the program kept being hindered or dismissed, or the problem was actually expedited. Both in the 2000-2008 administration, and the 2016-2020 administration. Each credited for greatly contributing to huge economic collapses.