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Originally Posted by Mayo
I don't think that it's at all an unreasonable goal to try to encourage healthier options and discourage junk food, which is what suzzer's talking about. That's a different thing entirely than the Wisconsin ******ation of deciding what sharpnesses of cheddar cheese the poors deserve.
So I don't really know why goofy, Anais, and fly seem so utterly dismissive of that position.
Apparently it goes against "Go Team" liberal dogma that any restriction or non-expansive modification to any program to help the poor robs them of human dignity. Details, common sense or practicality are never a consideration.
If food stamps were originally set up with minimal nutrition requirements, or Red Bull was put in the same category as say gum, none of those guys would ever have the slightest problem with it. But I'm ******* for wanting to tweak the system a little to make it better, even though I'm still 100% for food stamps and want to expand tons of different programs to help the poor.
From the Baltimore thread:
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
In suzzer-land, here's how I would help this kid:
- Make tuition completely free for him to any state school or private school that meets max tuition and min admission/continuation requirements. Note in my perfect world this should apply to everyone in the country rich, middle class or poor. But I'll settle for poor.
- Offer free trade school as an alternative to kids who don't meet the admission requirements or to anyone of any age who wants to go
- The poor also get room & board covered for either.
- Abolish student loans in favor of grants for all of the above. Kids can still get loans for schools that refuse to meet max tuition requirements. Middle class and rich kids can get loans for room and board. No more indentured-servitude to student loans for anyone.
- Fund inner-city schools better while at the same time crush malevolent teacher's unions that protect asshats like that teacher in the video who does absolutely nothing
- Give that kid tons of charter school options (note this is already working fantastically well in many places, teacher's unions hate it of course)
- Make sure he's got good nutrition (food stamps if needed)
- Fund head start and other after-school programs
- Create a negative income tax to subsidize the poor w/o dis-incentivizing making an income
- Clean up all the abuses in the disability program and funnel the funds toward the stuff above
- Don't throw money down a hole in stupid criminal $2T wars and use the money to fund the above for like a decade
For reference:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=2004
Last edited by suzzer99; 05-03-2015 at 04:32 PM.