> There’s a myth that you can financial-plan your way out of economic hardship but it’s simply not true.

And if the situation was some people cannot escape this hardship, and there aren't spare resources allocated to other people, then we could say OK, our basic premise must be wrong, it's just inevitable that some people will suffer this hardship.

I think it's plausible this was sometimes true in a middle ages farming community during famine. If we re-allocate food from the "wealthy" with plenty to eat to those with none, some might starve anyway, there just isn't enough food.

But in our society that's not the case, we have tremendously wealthy people and these people in hardship, therefore I argue the fact you discovered is a failure of policy and it is worthwhile to contemplate whether politicians you consider supporting are addressing this failure, or whether they instead believe (or pretend to believe) the myth or perhaps in fact they consider hardship for others a desirable outcome, ie they are despicable people.