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Kali

(56,618 posts)
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:41 AM May 2025

You know, if they deport enough legal immigrants

It isn't going to matter that much what they do to Medicaid or Medicare, because THERE WON'T BE ANY WORKERS LEFT TO TAKE CARE OF PATIENTS.

- signed Kali, patient for going on 3 weeks now

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Clouds Passing

(6,970 posts)
1. Get well soon 💚
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:45 AM
May 2025

Also, if they get rid of enough legal brown people then the Democrats lose their voting base.

Irish_Dem

(79,762 posts)
2. I have also suspected this is one of the goals. Nursing homes are staffed with immigrants.
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:46 AM
May 2025

So Trump will shut down the nursing homes.

travelingthrulife

(4,463 posts)
4. Lots of rich people get good grift from nursing homes though.
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:50 AM
May 2025

More likely he will demand a cut.

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
6. +1. When my father-in-law was dying in a nursing home 20 years ago, I prayed that the Hispanic aides were on duty
Sat May 17, 2025, 11:24 AM
May 2025

because they were the only ones that seemed to give a damn.

kimbutgar

(26,796 posts)
7. Most senior communities I move seniors into in my senior move manager job the workers are mostly non white
Sat May 17, 2025, 12:00 PM
May 2025

And are probably immigrants .they are caring compassionate and hardworking people doing jobs no magas idiots would or could do! Change that diaper, change the sheets, help them shower, feed them etc.

Bev54

(13,199 posts)
8. It is just like the tariffs, it won't matter to the rest of the world because there will not
Sat May 17, 2025, 12:03 PM
May 2025

be any immigrants to pick your produce or that tourists no longer visit because there will not be enough immigrants to service the industry. It goes on and on and on.

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
9. Interstingly, saw on Facebook this morning that Villages -- large red community in Florida -- has no one to build houses
Sat May 17, 2025, 12:13 PM
May 2025

and hundreds of sites are cleared, foundations in, etc., but no workers for construction thanks to trump.

Hope22

(4,468 posts)
11. I've had a loved one in a care facility when the state dropped Medicaid.
Sat May 17, 2025, 12:31 PM
May 2025

We were private pay but so many of the residents were on Medicaid. The state turned it off and immediately meds, depends, special care givers and monthly fees stopped coming in to the facility. That place went to a dead stop with the manager big eyed as to what the end of the month would bring! Trust me killing Medicaid kills nursing facilities and assisted living care for everyone. They simply will not exist on private pay patients. We were writing the big check but the care was just not there. Grandma and grandpa will be coming home to a living room near you! Those with no family…it’s not going to go well. 😢

calimary

(89,034 posts)
12. These stories need to be shared.
Sat May 17, 2025, 12:41 PM
May 2025

From what I’ve read, this shit has opened the eyes of voters before. They’re compelled to see, hear, and understand how bad things get when you cut taxes to help those who don’t need any help. Even with some dreaded tax increases, they’d still do just fine.

Hope22

(4,468 posts)
13. Agree! politicians are not thinkers.
Sat May 17, 2025, 12:52 PM
May 2025

This was 2009/2010 in Idaho. I imagine state by state people have been getting a small taste of how this works. The politicians heard from the people and businesses in quick order and found a better way of thinking. It was a giant mess that could have taken businesses out in less than a month!

calimary

(89,034 posts)
15. Yep. Our "leaders" are really our Followers.
Sat May 17, 2025, 03:24 PM
May 2025

If they start getting the idea that the voters don’t want it, they’re not as likely to try to shove it down our throats anyway.

Eventually at least some of ‘em start noticing the writing on the wall, and start realizing who they really work for. But that realization only comes when We the People really make a stink about it. And it might also get through to them when their pals and allies in Congress (and elsewhere) start struggling to stay in power or disappearing because they got voted out.

I don’t care who it is - from the Oval Office down to the local city official. Our “leaders” are really our FOLLOWERS. In office because We the People put them there.

That’s Reason #1 why we all need to keep and eye on our officials and make sure they’re doing what we want. After all, WE’RE the ones who put them in office and what the Voters giveth, the Voters can take away.

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