Only posting this article about how Anahaim feels like it's getting a raw deal from Disney from their theme park because Disney blacked out the LA Times from any advance reviews of their products because the LA Times printed it

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-f...anaheim-deals/

I'm sympathetic to this pov philosophically. It's about respect and dignity and (a) is certainly right about most people. But the number one cause of death for people under something like 50 in the US is opiate overdose. Handing out money will not prevent homelessness or malnutrition and even a small percentage of our population is a lot of people. I think respecting people's abilities to make their decisions has a big place in the world, but so does taking a deeper interest in our fellow humans, mutual aid, and destigmatizing interdependence.

Taken to it's extreme the pov you express is just ACism with a check. Healthcare and education certainly fall in the realm of things people could just pay for with their UBI.

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LOL

I agree there is a political alignment to how people feel about this issue, but I think it has more to do with what you think people need, rather than a fear of Big Government incubating a school lunch-industrial complex. If you think people mostly need the opportunity and resources to make their own decisions and it will mostly work out, that favors giving them money and is sort of libertarian-inflected. If you think the poor need the wise guidance of the state and protection from the brutality of the market economy, that favors aid in kind and paternalistic liberalism. If you think poor people need to be scared straight, that favors heavily restricted aid in kind and conservatism.

You cannot currently buy toilet paper with food stamps.

You can't buy prepared foods with food stamps. Although I think in some cases disabled poors can.

Some of you think there's some edict handed down by god that says what's food and what's not and we'd be introducing a massive administrative burden to the state to try to tweak the "what is food" list. The list administration is already in place.

This is the kind of bureaucratic nonsense I'm talking about. Toilet paper is a necessity. They should be able to buy that. What's wrong with prepared meals? Some doofus bureaucrat who's never been in poverty and thinks poors have plenty of time to cook from scratch every day is making silly rules. Just give them a lump sum and let them blow on whatever they think they need.

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Not sure what my favorite part is:

RELOVEUTION
"a military inspired jacket"
dry clean only

Didn't Ron Paul trademark the RELOVEUTION catchphrase?

Maybe his lawyers are asleep on the job.

Some poor angsty teen with dumbass, way too rich parents is going to get this thing for Christmas when he would have been perfectly happy with a used $10 jacket without a bunch of **** already pre-written on it from the local Army Navy store to scrawl his own random grabag of political catchphrases onto. YOU DONT UNDERSTAND ME AT ALL MOM

To be fair, wearing military-style jackets ironically has been a counter culture fashion staple since the 60's. John Lenon did it all the time.

Sure. But if you're gonna have the bureaucratic nonsense (which I think we can assume will be around for a while in this climate - unless they just kill food stamps entirely) - then I would rather see certain items added, and certain items removed. Glad we agree!

Anarcho-Capitalist is running for Arizona Senate

He also does the revenge porn.
Great America Wins!

ACist promising to advance Trump's agenda sounds about right.

Nailed it.

Right - we should never argue that a government program could be made better with tweaks. Just that it should be abolished for politically untenable (currently) untried ideas like UBI. Got it.

Evolution of the pro-Red Bull crowd itt:

1) We should have UBI, but other than that stop shaming the poors with requirements on what they can buy.

2) Oh what - you can't buy toiler paper or hot chicken? That sucks.

3) Can't talk about details - must have UBI now!

I just want the guy making my Subway to have access to toilet paper at home.

In addition, many poor people live in places considered "food deserts," which are neighborhoods without easy access to supermarkets or other stores with fresh fruits and vegetables. For many of these people, the healthiest meal they can buy locally might be a prepared meal.

http://americannutritionassociation....s-food-deserts

Man there's a lot of stupidity in the comments section of that tweet.

It's a cool look. Not one I would pay $375 for though.

Most Trump supporters I know dislike the GOP because they aren't furthering Trump's agenda. They consider them the enemy and really want to vote them out for ones that'll do Trump's bidding no questions asked.

welp a plane landed on the interstate right by my exit, should be a fun commute home tonight

I had a 5 (or maybe 10?) lb. block of yellow American cheese in my fridge in the mid-80's. My roommate scored it somehow; I had no clue how to get any government benefits.

Food desert? Just get Amazon Fresh. Kidding, but we ain't going down the food desert road again.

BTW, the US has spent like $250m/day on the military for like 15 years straight. I'm ok with not uncovering every potential abuse of food stamps.

5-pounds, confirmed by 80s punk lyrics.


Soup lines
Free loaves of bread
Five-pound blocks of cheese
Bags of groceries
Social security
Has run out on you and me
We do whatever we can
Gotta duck when the **** hits the fan

Same here as my Mom took in the only homeless person in Blue Springs, MO. So we got the govt cheese. Wasn't bad.