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This?? THIS is what they spend their time on??

This is what a GOP congress looks like. If you call yourself a fiscal conservative, I'm tell you what. Go fuck yourself.

It's important to understand that it is now the philosophy of the Sociopathic Oligarchs and their trans-national corporations, that every person should die penniless, with nothing to pass on to their children.

When people reach middle age, and a bit older, they start to need their health care more, which is tied to their jobs, which are harder to find as you get older. That makes older workers more reliant on those jobs, making them more manipulative, and more accepting of abuse.

The wealthy don't like the fact that many older workers get inhertitances from one side of their marriage or the other, or perhaps both, and then suddenly they have options, and dont need the safety of their company any more. They can afford to find a lower stress job, or start their own (possibly competing) business, or they might just retire.

None of that is good for the wealthy. They want workers who are good little wage slaves, fully dependent on sociopaths to support their families. So now the strategy is to impoverish as many as possible before their deaths, so they have nothing to pass on to their children, to give them easier lives as they age.

So keep the banks fees up, keep property insurance high, keep property taxes high, and most of all make health care wildly expensive, difficult to access, predatory and parasitic. We always hear about most bankruptcies being cause by medical bills, which is frightening to most people, but music to the Sociopathic Oligarchs' ears. Those are people who had money, and lost it all, including their children's inheritance.

Of course the other tendril of the strategy is to kill Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, so people will work literally until their deaths. Retirment is for the wealthy. The rest of us need to keep grinding.

wHaT aBoUt tHe EgG pRiCezSZ!?!?

Everyone who votes Republican deserves shit like this. But unfortunately we're all stuck with them, and they seem incapable of learning.

Republicans seemingly are free to fuck the poor and working citizen as hard as they want and they keep voting for more.

Nice to see the Senate hard at work on America's most pressing problems.

Surprised democrats actually held the line on this one. Are they learning?

lol you can't turn off overdraft protection. I fucking tried. They wouldn't let me do it.

I am not using a major national bank, just a local/regional one from my hometown.

It's really unfortunate. Most banks and credit unions turn on overdraft protection by default. And many of them make it difficult to turn it off (burying it in online app/site menus, requiring people to call in or go into a branch to deactivate it, etc.). They do this because overdraft fees are a massive source of profit for them.

But it's pretty easy for people to get trapped in a vicious cycle of debt due to these fees. Most people don't know they can turn these off, and some don't even realize they are in place to begin with.

Of course if we had actual democratic leadership they'd be running ads about everything costing more because of Trump and saying Republicans want them to go deeper in debt paying for groceries when they can't make ends meet.

Line up sheeple, the fleecing is in progress

Really looking out for the little guy, huh?

And this will hit the people hardest who voted for them.