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Re:65k fake students enrolled in the California junior colle... by walkhour on Sunday May 08, 2022 @12:37PM (#31305604)
Every policy in the last fifty years of the US government would be perfectly rational if its purpose was to destroy the nuclear and extended family. It may just be coincidence, but there's no doubt these are the consequences.

These policies are in line with that, a unequivocal transfer of money from structured hard working families to unstructured broken ones. Removing incentives for the former and adding them for the latter.

It's very easy to destroy social fabric top down, but it can only be created bottom up.

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Re:65k fake students enrolled in the California junior colle... by escapedmoose on Sunday May 08, 2022 @05:05PM (#31308141)
> Every policy in the last fifty years of the US government would be perfectly rational if its purpose was to destroy the nuclear and extended family.

How do you figure?

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Re:65k fake students enrolled in the California junior colle... by KBme on Monday May 09, 2022 @03:40AM (#31311591)
That is how benefits work. It is called imcome redistribution and the people doing it are proud of it. They also like to pretend it helps the poor and disenfranchised. All it does is encourage freeloading and cheating, as well as disincentivising success.
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Re:65k fake students enrolled in the California junior colle... by vmception on Sunday May 08, 2022 @12:39PM (#31305622)
If only anything in the government was that coordinated.
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Re:65k fake students enrolled in the California junior colle... by RhysU on Sunday May 08, 2022 @12:54PM (#31305763)
Suppose that it wasn't coordinated but rather emergent. Then less government would be the obvious answer.

Notice less government is therefore the answer regardless of why we keep getting these outcomes.

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