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Millions To Lose Safety Net Benefits As Trump Redefines Poverty - YouTube
Channel: The Ring of Fire
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A few weeks ago, we talked about the fact
that the Trump administration is actually
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trying to redefine who is living in poverty
here in the United States.
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They want to be able to kick people off their
benefits, say that our poverty numbers are
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decreasing but not by helping people, by making
them make more money, but by just changing
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a how we count people who are in poverty.
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Part of that involves you know, inflation
and chained CPI.
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I explained it all in the previous video if
you want to go back and check that out.
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But here's the thing, the uh, center for budget
and policy priorities.
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So a liberal think tank when ahead and crunched
the numbers on how many people would be effected
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if the Trump administration is successful,
which it appears they likely will be in changing
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who is counted as living below the federal
poverty line.
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And here is the list of what's going to happen
in this country.
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If they changed this definition, more than
250,000 adults would lose health insurance
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through Medicaid, more than 300,000 children
and some pregnant women would lose health
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insurance through the CHIP program.
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Millions of people would receive fewer subsidies
for purchasing health insurance on the Obamacare
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marketplace, making it too expensive for them
to afford anymore more than 250,000 seniors
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and people with disabilities would lose or
receive less access to the Medicare Part d
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subsidy program, forcing them to pay more
for prescription drugs, more than 150,000
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seniors and people with disabilities with
lose premium assistance for Medicare part
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B, meaning they'd have to pay over $1,500
to see a doctor, uh, nearly 200,000 people
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would lose food stamp benefits.
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More than 100,000 students would become ineligible
for free or reduced price lunches.
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And more than a 100,000 extra would lose free
meals.
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And about 40,000 infants and young children
would lose access to care such as breast feeding
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support and healthy food through the special
supplemental nutrition program for women,
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infants and children.
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And that's just a start folks.
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That's what would happen when you add up all
the numbers to millions of people in this
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country.
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If this administration does the sinister move
of simply changing the definition of who lives
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in poverty and the only reason they would
want to change this definition is to boast
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about their numbers because suddenly if they
change it, and these people who are in poverty
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are no longer considered to be living in poverty,
Trump gets to come out and say, hey, we just
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reduce the poverty in this country by 10%
overnight.
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Quite literally aren't I the best?
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I'm so great and wonderful.
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Everybody should vote for me in 2020 because
no other president's been able to do that.
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Yeah, because no other president was stupid
enough and heartless enough to do that.
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But this also goes along with the long held
Republican belief of let's cut all the benefits.
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Let's kill social safety net programs.
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You know, force women to have babies.
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But if there are too poor to be able to afford
any kind of a prenatal care or post birth
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care, oh well that's your fault.
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Too Bad.
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You couldn't fix the problem because we passed
a law saying you had to have the baby, but
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we're not going to help you out even though
you were raped or even though this was a case
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of incest.
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Yep.
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Sorry, that's all on you because that's who
the Republican Party is as who they've always
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been, at least throughout my entire lifetime.
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I understand that.
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At some points in American history, they were
different.
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This is not who they were, but it's damn sure
who they are now, and this is exactly what
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they want to do to this country.
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Kick millions of people, all federal assistance
programs by tweaking a few numbers here, changing
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a definition there, and then taking all the
credit for supposedly lowering the poverty
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numbers in this country.
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Meanwhile, millions of people starve.
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They die early because they can't get medical
care, but those aren't things that Republicans
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care about.
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All they care about is saving a little bit
of money because eventually that money is
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going to have to make its way back to the
wealthy elite in the form of probably in another
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tax cut.
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