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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 72 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

They just cut head start, slashed medicade(51% of us babies are born on this program), no medicade no pediatric care for your baby either, cut hud, slashed the department of education, blocked student loan forgiveness, are dismantling the aca preventative care mandate, gutting worker protections, canceling child labor laws, laid off 275,000 workers and destroyed their livelihood and tanked the economy ……yea the birth rate is going to plummet. 5k lol doesn’t even cover a fraction of the utter devastation coming to American families from these moronic policies. Who in their right mind would want to bring a child into this racist sexist tech bro oligarchy?

[–] parrhesia@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago

The Headstart cut hurts a lot. I know people that gone to that when they were little and had nothing but good things to say.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 11 hours ago

But that is a lot of complicated words, 5k is much easier to make a headline about, and re-elect the same people.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 13 points 13 hours ago

yea the birth rate is going to plummet.

I'm not so sure. Impoverished countries have the highest birth rates. I can imagine the logic of the wealthy 0.001% being "if we make the rest of the country as broke as Somalia, the birth rate will also be as high as Somalia."

[–] GenXLiberal@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

And all to fund tax cuts for the wealthy - who don’t need them.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

Are you saying the game of achieving highscores for world's richest person with ever higher numbers isn't important? /s