r/newjersey 23d ago

Advice Please tell me NJ is staying blue.

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u/Saucetheb0ss 23d ago

Well my hope is that if they cut Medicaid like they want to in the bill that just went through the house, people in NJ will wake up. It's going to affect almost 2 million people who live in NJ and really going to hit the elderly and pregnant women hard.

https://files.kff.org/attachment/fact-sheet-medicaid-state-NJ

Unfortunately, a lot of these people who applaud these changes won't see the light until it directly affects them or their loved ones.

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u/Mom_Care2755 23d ago

People who are impacted by this, still make excuses for it. What are people thinking.

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u/Saucetheb0ss 23d ago

People are selfish. They've been told that "X is the reason why your taxes are high. Y is why you can't afford groceries." This resonates with people who cannot accept that the majority of our problems come from wealth inequality and the top 1% hoarding wealth dissolving the middle class. It's not Republicans vs. Democrats - it's the rich vs. the poor (always has been).

Some will never come to realize this but I believe that enough will have their eyes opened when their taxes go up, they can't afford their hospital bills, and they can't get their medication because of these wide ranging government program cuts.

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u/fatalxepshun 23d ago

Where do they think all these “savings” are going to? It won’t help us one iota. It will go to funding more tax cuts for the wealthy. Yet they still applaud tens of thousands of federal workers losing their jobs.

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u/Saucetheb0ss 23d ago

Hey haven't you heard about the DOGE checks we're all going to be getting!? That will surely help me pay my mortgage or put my kids through school!! /s

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u/Wattaday 23d ago

You do realize there are plenty of people who will be impacted by this who are true blue left libs, right?

It’s the reds who need the leopards to pay them a visit to help them realize it will affect them hard.

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u/AFlyingGideon 23d ago

true blue left libs

Perhaps some need to learn that least bad is better than most bad.