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Originally Posted by TeflonDawg
I just don't understand the point of food stamps and obamaphones. Obamaphones is just a gov't subsidy to a phone provider to give phones to people who can't afford one. Food stamps are like when you give a gift card to someone as a Christmas gift instead of cash (I do neither, that **** is tacky). Why tf would I want a gift card to be forced to spend money at ONE store vs cash which can be used for ANY store? Why all that bureaucratic red tape and middlemen for a phone when an individual can just walk in a buy one on their own?
The EBT cards exist because many people when given cash won't spend it on food, so the cards are designed to be used to buy only food. They do work at pretty much any store, though, but they're set so you can't buy stuff like cigarettes or alcohol with them.
As for the phones, the reason they were brought out is because it was found that many people in marginal situations had trouble finding jobs because they lacked phones to get call backs on. However, in the modern era getting a cell phone is in a lot of places cheaper and easier than getting a landline, and they're way more useful too. Plus they have pay as you go options.
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The consumer should be given widest range of choice. If they waste it, then **** them. If they're making decisions for children, then children should be monitored more often and taken away from egregiously neglectful parents.
This is why I mentioned foster care reform/overhaul. In its current state it's a travesty and with UBI I'd think foster care needs to be orders of magnitude better if they might be getting an influx of more kids coming from horrible backgrounds.
Perhaps financial literacy education needs to be forced upon the masses?
Foster care and child welfare programs are for sure a big mess, but like all programs they're only in that state because of one simple reason: Money. If they were better funded they'd provide better results, pure and simple. So if you want them to improve, all you have to do is pay more in taxes. EZ Game.