The US Government Has Abandoned the Nation’s Poor—Poverty is a policy choice, one the U.S. continues to make despite the suffering of millions.
by temporarycreature
The US Government Has Abandoned the Nation’s Poor—Poverty is a policy choice, one the U.S. continues to make despite the suffering of millions.
by temporarycreature
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Correction: Republicans choose this.
Poverty isn’t as cut and dry as people make it out to be. Fact is even in progressive countries like Norway and others. Poverty exists there as well. You can mitigate it but there is no policy choice to solve it.
Translation: The Billionaire class has architected the abandonment of US poor to ensure a steady slave-wage population, and a permanent source of human raw material to feed to their private prison corporations.
Create dependency on the government.
Happening in Canada too
The problem is the poor don’t have an army of lobbyists or super donors, so the gop can easily ignore them.
Money in government is the root of the issue
In order to have rich people you must have poor people to help the rich get richer. Capitalism can only work this way.
Well people keep voting for the GOP in the poorest places. The poorest states are generally Republican. The poor kind of choose this fate.
Citigroup analysts wrote in 2006 about our system and described this as ‘plutonomy’, borrowing the word, which was originally coined in the mid nineteenth century.
Basically economic growth is reliant on a small group of extremely wealthy individuals, and they also benefit the most from that economic activity. The bulk of a nation’s wealth is also concentrated in the hands of this select group.
Word. End trickledown economics now.
Something, something, bootstraps.
At some point the bottom is going to fall out here. You can’t hope to maintain a strong economy when your foundation is rotting. The structure will collapse.
It’s due to our Puritanical roots. If you’re broke, it must be your fault. When I was broke, my family carried me. Next time pick your parents more carefully.
Well yes, but when there’s a whole political party devoted to dis function and cutting taxes for the rich it may be more accurate to say it’s not the whole US, just a real up hill battle. Painting it so bleakly does more to disenfranchise people then to encourage them to work for the long fight of justice and equality.
Is the idea here that we just hand out checks to the poor and this is the policy choice? If so I think it’s better served to bolster the middle class. Poor folks and the rich get way more handouts than middle class. The middle class is the foundation of our economy.
The Republicans have blocked attempts to raise the minimum wage or to provide a tax credit or better healthcare or almost anything.
but whose going to clean the toilets
I’ve never seen a group of Americans more determined to be callous, heartless and compassionless than the conservatives in America. I’m sure if I asked them individually they would say they love everyone, get down on their knees in church every Sunday… but then they vote to elect representatives who want to take away the very programs that keep people from being poor.
Nobody should be financially better off in a pandemic than a wide open economy. The loley skeleton crew of essential workers demonstrated how easy it is to feed the entire nation’s population.
Also, inflation didn’t set in til the government stimulus checks were spent. Which is to say that inflation didn’t take over until your incomes were cut off, beforehand they had to compete with each other… driving prices down….poor people having money gives the rest of us bargaining power.
Why am I the only one who has a complete understanding of this? Almost as if I’m the only one capable of making the clear cut irrefutable case…in the entire world…
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