POSSIBLE DISLOCATIONS

Now that even Orange Julius Caesar himself has said that, ‘no Republican should vote to cut so much as one penny from either Social Security or Medicare’ (although God alone knows how sincere this is) we need to take a good, l-o-n-g look at everything that would be lost by the deep cuts over which the MAGA fascist Randians are salivating,
“Get a job,” the Randians snarl. ‘Join the makers’. That is, those who will make already obscenely rich white males (whether they’re really men or not is very questionable indeed) still richer. Nothing else but that.
In point of fact, a great many, if not most, able-bodied recipients of government money (and many that aren’t) actually do have jobs. Those jobs might not pay any, or little, money, although, so long as those who do them have their moderately comfortable incomes, more than make up for that in job satisfaction. That is, a great many of the people who do very necessary, albeit unpaid, jobs — that is, volunteers — are retirees or only partially disabled. That’s a whole segment of very necessary work but work for which people are unable or unwilling to pay. What happens when those who do them need to be better paid?
And think of the grandparents, both grandmas and grandpas, who provide either primary or backup childcare for their grandkids and other children. What happens if and when they can’t afford to do that anymore? There’ll be a lot of people who won’t be able to afford child care. If you run a business, you know what a headache that can be, am I not right?
Now let’s go to the sections of the economy that depend to a large extent on money spent by…