The Plan to Dismantle Social Safety Nets is Already in Motion — Here’s How We Fight Back

If You’re Not Angry Yet, You’re Not Paying Attention

The people in power have a plan. It’s not a secret. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s not an accident.

They are systematically gutting the programs that keep people alive.

• SNAP benefits slashed.

• Medicaid expansions rolled back.

• Affordable housing programs underfunded into oblivion.

• Unemployment assistance made intentionally impossible to access.

And every time they strip away another layer of support, they tell us the same lazy, insulting lie:

“We just can’t afford it.”

Meanwhile:

• There’s always money for corporate tax breaks.

• There’s always money for the military industrial complex.

• There’s always money to bail out billionaires and banks.

But when it comes to feeding people, housing people, giving people access to healthcare? Suddenly, we’re broke.

It’s not about money. It’s about control.

The Endgame: Keep People Desperate

The attacks on social safety nets aren’t about “reducing government spending.” They are about manufacturing desperation.

Because when people are desperate, they are:
✔ Easier to exploit.
✔ Easier to control.
✔ Easier to blame.

When wages are low, jobs are unstable, rent is obscene, and the government cuts every last lifeline—people will accept anything.

They’ll take horrific jobs with no benefits. They’ll stay silent while being mistreated. They won’t organize, they won’t fight back—because they’re too busy trying to survive.

That is the goal.

That is why they don’t want universal healthcare.
That is why they don’t want housing protections.
That is why they don’t want living wages.

Because if people had even the bare minimum of security, they wouldn’t have to accept this broken, exploitative system.

They Want You to Blame the Wrong People

And here’s where the scam gets even worse: They want us fighting each other instead of fighting them.

• They tell you that SNAP benefits are being cut because of “lazy freeloaders”—not because corporations don’t pay taxes.

• They tell you that affordable housing is impossible because “people don’t want to work”—not because hedge funds are buying up entire neighborhoods and jacking up rent.

• They tell you that Medicaid is “too expensive”—not that defense contractors make trillions off endless wars.

They create artificial scarcity, turn people against each other, and distract us while they rob the public blind.

Here’s How We Fight Back

Step one: Stop falling for their bullshit.

Social safety nets don’t “hurt the economy.” They keep people alive.
Government assistance isn’t “stealing from taxpayers.” It’s our money—and we have every right to demand it be spent on the people, not the powerful.

Action Steps:

1. Call it what it is: Theft. When billionaires dodge taxes while social programs get cut, that’s not “good business.” That’s robbery.

2. Demand the money go where it belongs. If they can afford corporate subsidies, they can afford universal healthcare, housing, and food security.

3. Expose their hypocrisy. Every politician slashing benefits while taking lobbyist money from billionaires needs to be put on blast.

4. Organize. Protests, strikes, mass movements—the only time in history the powerful have given up anything is when the people made it too costly not to.

5. Vote, but also apply pressure. The system won’t fix itself. Make politicians fear the people more than they fear their corporate donors.

We are not running out of money. We are running out of patience.

The people in charge aren’t going to stop dismantling social safety nets until we make them stop.

So, what’s it going to be? Let them take everything? Or fight like hell to take it back?