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Real Americans include those who are what MAGA would consider DEI Citizens. As Trump tears apart the Equal opportunity employment act, DEI hiring offices in government and is leaning on businesses to follow suit, eliminating birthright citizenship, attempting to purge the Federal government of employees with seniority in every branch of government (who may be a few years away from full pensions), ending the department of education which will destroy equal access to education, destroying women's rights to control their own fate by planning to criminalize abortion, ending research in US so China, Russia, India and Middle East will surpass US as the leaders in science, medicine and technology, destroying healthcare bit by bit so only the wealthy have access to healthcare. More white babies will be born but more children of all races will die because of poor maternal healthcare and unvaccinated children who no longer have access to healthcare.

My three year old granddaughter has been sick and in pain for the entire month of January but because Medicaid renewal applications are being slow walked, she hasn't been able to see her nephrologist since December, who at that time thought she needed surgery to remove an extra kidney she has that doesn't drain correctly and gets mucous and blood-fillied cysts that spill over into her urine causing her terrible pain every time she urinates. The ER doesn't do anything but give her antibiotics that make her sick when she doesn't have an infection.

I know another woman who's son had a series of seizures and needs some tests and imaging that will cost $10,000 up front before the hospital will do them. Fortunately, she is still a British citizen and she took her son to the UK to get treatment because waiting for Medicaid while he had more seizures was no longer bearable and they didn't have $10,000.

I wonder how many children are suffering and getting sicker, not getting necessary care in the world's richest country so Elon Musk can try to slow the government supported healthcare down and create chaos and maybe rid the country of some of the "excess population" so billionaires can not pay taxes.

The saying "if you break it, you own it" should be modified to "if you want more babies, you are responsible for the basic needs of the children: healthcare, food, clothing, housing and education.

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