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View submission: Houston-based Hewlett Packard Enterprise announces plan to cut workforce by 2,500
79 million Americans are on Medicaid and 42 million receive food assistance. The income level needed to qualify for these is basically nothing. These are super poor people. We’re not talking “paycheck-to-paycheck”, we’re talking about “do I turn on the air conditioning or do I eat this week”. Income cap for Texans to receive regular Medicaid is $943/month. Many are disabled or elderly. The planned budget cuts are vague but there’s plenty of indication that these programs will be hit hard.
Also, not sure if you’ve watched the news but there have been over 100,000 employees removed from federal positions. Departments with more than 5% of staff laid off so far include community planning and development (-83%), International Development (-20%), Veteran’s Affairs (-15%), Social Security (-12%), Energy (-11%), Forest Service (-10%), weather monitoring (-6%), IRS (-6%), Disease Control (-6%), Consumer Financial Protection (-6%), Health (-5%), and Parks Service (-5%).
Personally I work at NASA and more than 5% of our civil servants are gone before the RIF even starts. Do you think these things can operate with this much reduction? Do you think that 1 in 20 NASA employees is just sitting around not doing anything? Hell no. We can’t launch 19/20ths of a rocket.
These plans are already having major impacts on the social services that your tax dollars pay for. And here’s the kicker: you’re still going to give the government the same amount of money each year.
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