This is hell.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.

Now is the time of monsters.

This is hell around the world, The monstrous act we are witnessing is that governments are increasingly abandoning the citizens they are supposed to serve.

The citizens they are supposed to care for.

The idea was we citizens would support the government if they provided the basic services

we need to survive, allowed for some level of freedom, and worked to make certain we were all

safe and secure. But that seems to no longer be the case. Instead, governments are embracing

privatization of care, outsourcing their

responsibilities to the for-profit sector. Of course, in doing so, the private sector does

what it always does when something becomes a commodity, and that is they create artificial

shortages to raise demand and prices. When that's applied to social services and care, that means suffering all for the sake of profit.

When governments are not embracing profits over people, they are engaging in austerity, cutting, and slashing resources for social services and care.

We recently spoke with Program Director of the National Priorities Project, Lindsay Koshgarian,

who joined us to discuss the Institute for Policy Studies Report,

the high moral stakes of the policy battles raging in Washington, D.C.

Trump and the GOP are cutting programs for the poor to spend more on the war machine, mass deportations, and tax breaks for the wealthy.

As Lindsay explained to us, far too often when discussions of social services and care do take place in the media, and they't very often they're about how much should be cut from those services how much care needs to be slashed

and not what those actual services provide what that care does for us we know the costs of the service, but we repeatedly ignore the value they provide.

That's exactly what is happening when it comes to care, to caring for each other, to caring for everyone,

and not only caring as in physical or mental health, but caring for others and the freedom that we all want

them to experience, the freedom that we all want to experience. The value of care is obfuscated

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