Diseases we refuse to treat properly, instead funding massive bureaucracies that do nothing to solve the issue, just perpetuate it.
It's never anyone's fault when they turn to crime, or addiction, or living off others. typical progressive bullshit.
Democrats are only throwing money at the problem, so they can feel better while people still die on the streets, and now grow into masses large enough to ruin local economies and standards of living.
But they throw money at the issue, so they can say they are "doing something"
Reality is treating the criminals as the victims is being taken advantage of by the criminals, because they are ******* criminals.
But a Limo progressive like yourself can make yourself feel better about it because you support throwing money at the problem. If people are still stuck in their addiction, mental illness, laziness, criminality and ruin other's lives because of it, "Oh well, at least I CARE"
The solutions are simple. Raise wages for working people instead of increasing earned income credit. No other first world nations subsidizes the wages of their workers through tax credits paid for by the middle class. Make corporations pay their own damn workers.
This eliminates vast swaths of government bureaucracy, administration, means testing and disbursement of various government programs, in addition to the benefits paid out.
The wages paid by corporations are tax deductible. Every dollar of wages only costs the employer 79 cents. Every dollar of government benefits costs taxpayers $1.50 by the time you factor in administration and expenses.
When jobs were offshore and workers were displaced, the government did nothing for the workers. They did give the corporations tax breaks to move their infrastructure and equipment to a foreign country though.
In Ontario, we had the same hollowing out of automobile manufacturing as the American Midwest. But the Canadian government immediately launched retraining programs for the displaced workers with income supports while they retrained. We didn’t have a massive unemployment and displacement.
The Canadian government also has an entrepreneur program for people, wanting to start a new businesses which provide mentorship, access to a business, incubator, and income supports for the first year. This program has a very, very high success rate in new business start ups
General Motors went from 20,000 employees and contractors prior to NAFTA, to fewer than 3000 today and that number was recently boosted by the reopening of an electric vehicle manufacturing plant employing 2000 workers. Despite the fact that 20,000 people in a city of 120,000 people were thrown out of work, Oshawa continued to thrive, as did Oakville (Ford) and Windsor (Chrysler).
Why does the conservative solution always seek to harshly punish people for being poor? You already have more people in jail than any other nation on earth and it’s not solving your problems with crime? You’re out of room. You can’t lock up any more people than you already have. It’s time to look at other solutions.
Creating programs to educate and train displaced workers is not “throwing money at the problem”.
I do agree that some of the @housing the homeless programs” in California make my eyes roll. The conversion of shipping containers to housing at a cost of $300,000 per unit spings immediately to mind.
Couldn’t you just build new apartment buildings for less than $300,000 per unit? The whole program smacked of porkbarreling for the construction companies that would do the conversion. The state would be awarding contracts to big construction companies for the conversion.
They could just give $300,000 away to every homeless family to for housing and it still would be cheaper than this boondoggle. And no, I am not suggesting that’s what they do.
A “limo liberal” I am not. After my father died, when I was 11 years old, my mother was left, literally penniless. I’m a bootstraps gal. I got a paper route when I was 12 and I didn’t stop working until I was 66. I’m a bootstraps gal.
I’m still working on my crafting business. It was originally incorporated under the entrepreneurs program in the year summer of 2000, but after 9/11, the market dried up and I returned to Bay Street, picking it up again after I retired. Now it’s my travel fund.
