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Re:The Owner of San Francisco’s Largest Hotel Is Just Walkin... by naijaboiler on Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:04PM (#36348044)
This is a disingenuous comment. Between social security and Medicare, most of this social surrendering is just taking care of old folks
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Re:The Owner of San Francisco’s Largest Hotel Is Just Walkin... by ETH_start on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:17AM (#36390735)
The old folk population has not grown nearly as rapidly as social spending, so your response is what's disingenuous.

Medicare, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), TANF, SNAP (food stamps), Head Start, WIC, LIHEAP, and EITC didn't exist in 1950, and now they do. Society is vastly more social democratic today than it was then.

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