⚖️Imagine… A Society That Chooses People Over Profits⚖️
💡 Imagined Endstate:
A future where America prioritizes the well-being of its people, especially the poor, elderly, and disabled🧑🦽 — where Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, and SSI are not seen as costs to cut, but as investments in our nation’s greatest asset: its people.
📚 Source:
Bivens, J. (2025, April 2). Cutting Medicaid for low taxes on the rich is terrible for American families. Economic Policy Institute. https://www.epi.org/publication/cutting-medicaid-for-low-taxes-on-the-rich-is-terrible-for-american-families/
💥 What’s the Big Deal:
This isn’t just about numbers on a balance sheet 💸 — this is about human lives. The argument to slash Medicaid and other essential lifelines in favor of tax breaks for the wealthy isn’t fiscal responsibility, it’s moral failure 🚫.
When programs like SNAP, TANF, SSI, and Medicaid are attacked under the guise of "saving money," the ones who pay the price are not the well-off. It is the single mother relying on Medicaid to keep her child healthy , the disabled person who depends on SSI for basic dignity 🧑🦽, the elderly who have worked all their lives and now need affordable care 👵🏽.
No one is building generational wealth from public assistance. These are not platforms for fortune; they are platforms for survival. 🧩 By contrast, tax cuts for the wealthiest widen inequality and starve essential services, making it harder for anyone but the elite to thrive.
Stripping away these supports under the guise of efficiency or political strategy ignores the long-term reality: prevention is always more affordable than crisis. Investing in public health, economic stability, and community resilience reduces emergency interventions, mitigates poverty, and builds a stronger, more unified society 🏛️. And importantly, it keeps the influence of compassionate governance front and center in both domestic and global arenas.
As we look to the Pacific Islands and globally, where resilience is deeply rooted in community strength and mutual support, we’re reminded: our greatest asset is each other 🌺. Cutting lifelines is cutting the very thread that weaves a society together.
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