Get used to the cat food , grandma

[WilliamPlanke]

Elon and the ENTIRE GOP establishment wants your $600 a month, grandma. Oh, and forget about the new hip you need, Elon and the GOP want you to live in pain for the rest of your life.

Any GOP pol against Social Security and Medicare gets the full third rail treatment! For all the right reasons, Social Security needs to be protected.

I wonder how the Trump voters down in “The Villages” are going to like cat food?

[Conjuay]

1. The Villages?

They'll call it trump Chile and have bar b cues featuring trump chile cook -offs.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. cat food is pricey

[Silent Type]

3. Bet money before it's over Musk and Ramaswamy say $2 T was over 10 years, like

most budget proposals nowadays.

$ 200 B annually is probably doable without impacting our lives, start with military budget.

[keep_left]

6. That probably won't happen. Eloon made it clear that there will be...

...a "carve-out" or exemption for heroic "defense" contractor job creators like himself. Radical fiscal austerity is for the little people!

https://democraticunderground.com/100219779335#post4
https://democraticunderground.com/100219749918#post16
https://democraticunderground.com/100219744877#post31

[Raine]

4. If grandma can afford cat food

she's doing alright. I don't know why cat food is assumed to be cheap, it's not.

[milestogo]

5. You're missing the point.

Older people really do resort to eating pet food (not even the best brands) when they can't make ends meet. And if the Republicans have their way, a lot of Senior Citizens will become impoverished.

[FuzzyRabbit]

7. Cat food used to be inexpensive.

I can remember before food stamps, when the drug store I worked at had a sale on canned cat food, many older women would buy a dozen or more cans. This is when cat food came in 12 oz cans instead of 3 and 5 oz cans.

I was new to the store and asked an older worker why these women were buying so much cat food. I learned that cat food was all they could afford to eat. Then food stamps were introduced, and over time we had fewer cat food sales.