Re:Longest-running oil spill in history releasing more than ...
by pwodhouse on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @07:43AM
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What on Earth are you talking about? Social services are massively underfunded, despite getting a lot of funding, because the need is gigantic.
Quite a lot of that funding is just compensating for some of centuries of theft, from slaveowners of the 19th century to predatory rural banks of the 20th Century to coordinated corporate wage depression of the 21st century.
Re:Longest-running oil spill in history releasing more than ...
by gwright on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @08:20AM
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There are real social problems that need solving but framing the situation as the result of "theft" is a mischaracterization. Theft would be an "easy" situation to resolve, just give the money back. In any case, I don't think simply transferring money solves these types of problems -- it is much more difficult than that.
Ironic that people seem to think that those programs are worthless, but I gather want to arrange for a lot more money to be distributed by the same organization that can't seem to do anything useful with the money it is already distributing.
I'm not a fan of the affordable care act, but it seems completely obvious to me that we need to decouple health insurance from employment. I really don't understand why that wasn't a key element of health care reform.