Why Don't Progressives Do This?

[Farm Boy]

I don't like being on The Dole, this hard, either. Might not be sustainable. It's everyone's taxpayer money, isn't it?

But the payments are indeed authorized by Congress. They were not specifically appropriated year over year. The authorization and use come from literal New Deal legislation that handed the specific power to FDR. Call it what you call it, but the 80s farm recession in Regan's era sucked. Probably helped develop a dislike for the smell of certain arguments. The dressings change, but the cores of them are the cores of them.

 

[Birdjaguar]

...For these purposes, white is considered the lack of any race. They pre-emptively qualify poverty as beside the point and hand waive it, then selectively reemploy it to add moral gravitas. People really are, sometimes, asinine pieces of fecal matter. If the poverty and disadvantage itself isn't the point, then it's all a vanity project of the upper middle class and nothing more. Which isn't surprising when it comes to a bunch of self-righteous... fine people? Fine people.

The folks most keen on making "whiteness" a race are, unfortunately, mostly pretty far to right. We've created the "race" problem, which is very hard to solve and entangled it with other problems that can be solved like poverty, jobs, education. Slowly we are seeing racism pushed towards the corners where it shows up often as more extreme, but in the center of the square, things have improved over time. Millennials are pushing that hard. Once we can look at poverty as a money and education issue, improving peoples lives gets easier.

 

[Zardnaar]

The folks most keen on making "whiteness" a race are, unfortunately, mostly pretty far to right. We've created the "race" problem, which is very hard to solve and entangled it with other problems that can be solved like poverty, jobs, education. Slowly we are seeing racism pushed towards the corners where it shows up often as more extreme, but in the center of the square, things have improved over time. Millennials are pushing that hard. Once we can look at poverty as a money and education issue, improving peoples lives gets easier.

This is how I look at it.

Invest money into the basics. It's how you sell it to the voters though.

 

[El_Machinae]

I don't like being on The Dole, this hard, either. Might not be sustainable. It's everyone's taxpayer money, isn't it?

Voter's money, but I get you.

I have mentioned before that the American Farm shows every single thing you need to see to show how capitalism can fail a citizenry. There are many fixes available, and one includes just giving money to offset the discrepancy.

The difficulty is political, where we try to get people to not view it as the Dole, but also don't look for ways to abuse it.

Bad government policy can necessitate bailouts, but the entire system is set up so that bailouts would be both necessary and completely without moral judgment. After that, it's just framing

 

[Farm Boy]

There was supposed to be irony in taxpayer, given the whole convo and the realignment, but sure.

But yes: military, food, roads, schools, we're more Eisenhower brand than Earl Butts brand farmers. Not that there seem to be a lot left. Though, given the gloming to the Dole in light of the trade war, maybe there are more than we thought.

 

[AdamCrock]

AoC

DNC

I hate U , Ur using "shorts" for what I do not understand Suffice it to say , America is the dark side , good guys are in the east ....

 

[Zardnaar]

I hate U , Ur using "shorts" for what I do not understand Suffice it to say , America is the dark side , good guys are in the east ....

Abbreviations. I'm semi fluent in American.

 

[AdamCrock]

Abbreviations. I'm semi fluent in American.

You are forgiven I was just goofing around sorry to invade Your thread

 

[Zardnaar]

You are forgiven I was just goofing around sorry to invade Your thread

Invade away my Slavic slushie mate.