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In reply to the discussion: Do you believe that everyone deserves food and housing, regardless of ability to work? [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)40. How much does your county spend on roads?
What is more important? Roads or shelter?
The establishment has made a choice. Roads for cars and trucks are more important than providing shelter for humans.
And that sucks. Time for a real change in priorities.
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Do you believe that everyone deserves food and housing, regardless of ability to work? [View all]
Lyric
May 2015
OP
Housing is not provided to or even subsudized for an awful lot of impoverished people,
tblue37
May 2015
#115
I am horrified that anyone here doesn't consider food and shelter to be basic human rights. nt
tblue37
May 2015
#116
Sounds like the Welfare State as we used to know it before Bill and Newt agreed to unmake it
leveymg
May 2015
#2
Deserving regardless of ability work, and regardless of which side of an imaginary red and blue lin
LanternWaste
May 2015
#3
agreed and corporations too get rid of the tax loop holes that allow corporations to pay 0 taxes
Romeo.lima333
May 2015
#35
The same way they are provided in most civilized countries. And even ones we don't consider
sabrina 1
May 2015
#15
Me too Polly. I notice the silence on Libya these days, as those civilians we supposedly went to
sabrina 1
May 2015
#150
there's 43 million people in poverty in 2013. so the government does what buy 43 million homes
Romeo.lima333
May 2015
#56
Why is that happening in the most wealthy country on earth? Have you been attention to
sabrina 1
May 2015
#66
I'd add: taking them FROM Americans who CREATED THAT WEALTH IN THE FIRST PLACE!
arcane1
May 2015
#78
Do each of those people living in poverty live alone? No one in families? Should each child & infant
uppityperson
May 2015
#96
Actually it only reminds very propagandized Americans of Russia. To the vast majority of the
sabrina 1
May 2015
#48
We can do better than two-year olds in rural counties drinking soda from their baby bottles.
Starry Messenger
May 2015
#19
Then wtf do lines in Russia have to do with providing food and housing?
Starry Messenger
May 2015
#36
cause im assuming the government would be the ones running it and with a congress like this
Romeo.lima333
May 2015
#41
The government runs lots of programs that do great with realistic funding levels
Starry Messenger
May 2015
#46
and congresses like this one will be something that will be a reality to any program like this
Romeo.lima333
May 2015
#61
The cost to the federal government is presently $500 billion dollars a year for child poverty
Starry Messenger
May 2015
#69
Well, we just paid thieving bank$ter/donors hundreds of billions of dollars to stick in their pocket
jtuck004
May 2015
#43
Read Stress Test, by Timothy "Killer" Geithner, and think of the thousands who have died in poverty
jtuck004
May 2015
#68
Uh, plenty of countries manage to do this. The difference is, they don't give all their
Arugula Latte
May 2015
#86
I would also include medical including mental health care and dental as basics.
Bluenorthwest
May 2015
#10
Food, water, shelter, medical care, access to education, safety, and equal treatment in
petronius
May 2015
#11
If a society can't provide for all as it allows some people to be very wealthy and wasteful...
hunter
May 2015
#12
That's so loaded with preconceptions/prejudicial bias about people with mental illness.
HereSince1628
May 2015
#24
The post I responded had -no- conditioning about varying seriousness of mental disorder
HereSince1628
May 2015
#49
The answer is properly-funded mental health facilities with professional staff providing care
Maedhros
May 2015
#29
And you're a-okay with leaving it all to mercurial charity in the "richest" country on the planet.
Arugula Latte
May 2015
#95
The surprisingly simple way Utah solved chronic homelessness and saved millions
Bluenorthwest
May 2015
#39
There was a good article in "Mother Jones" a couple of months ago that explained how
Vinca
May 2015
#37
No, and I don't like the framing. I think we have a duty, a strategic necessity, to make sure
jtuck004
May 2015
#47
"ability to work" is different than "desire to work". Let's at least make the conversation
frankieallen
May 2015
#51
How busy of a day do you think all those hedge fund assholes who got gov't $
Starry Messenger
May 2015
#112
If someone has the ability to and they do not have a big stash of money to provvide their needs
Thinkingabout
May 2015
#52
Too many of our citizens are happiness-disabled by the rich and/or non-caring.
BlueJazz
May 2015
#74
I have family members that would quit work tomorrow if the government paid for everything
FLPanhandle
May 2015
#113
I'm sorry your relatives are such morons, but most people would look upon it as an
Cleita
May 2015
#114
I'm fine with short term safety nets to help people get thier lives together and get back to work
FLPanhandle
May 2015
#123