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Stuff that Makes No Sense: United States

By |2018-04-07T16:04:57-04:00April 7th, 2018|Featured, Poverty and income, Stupid politicians, Universal Basic Income|

What if legislators LEGISLATED that the dollar amount of a Food Stamp monthly benefit match the amount the USDA itself says is needed to buy the amount and quality of food that keeps a person alive?

A candidate for President wants a Universal Basic Income

By |2018-11-23T18:55:14-05:00February 11th, 2018|Featured, Politicians, all types|

Andrew Yang, a not-for-profit and for profit entrepreneur is running for President of the United States. I for one couldn't be happier. Those who have been reading me for some time, and those who know me, know that I couldn't be sicker of the current public "assistance" system: the one that distributes insufficient amounts of [...]

Pro-soda group’s “concern” for poor is bull-doo

By |2018-02-11T13:59:06-05:00December 28th, 2017|Poverty and income, Uncategorized, Universal Basic Income|

So now, are we to believe that the pro-soda, pro-diabetes, pro-obesity lobby is coming to the defense of the poor in the United States? If the anti-soda tax people cared, they'd get behind a Universal Basic Income.

FDR’s Freedom from Want: Time to Remember

By |2018-01-06T13:04:05-05:00December 27th, 2017|Politicians, all types, Poverty and income|

- Photo by John Simoes (jsfotographic.tumblr.com) - FDR despised soup kitchens and bread lines and thought them to be shameful evidence of our failure to create income distribution policies for our people.

The Christmas Basket (A conversation starter for your post-holiday hangover)

By |2018-11-23T18:48:08-05:00November 19th, 2017|Poverty and income, Universal Basic Income, Women|

To say the chosen families needed the help more than the others was to advertise that they were particularly destitute, since everyone in room was poor, including by the way the teachers, who made about $12 an hour.

Marco Rubio’s pre-Thanksgiving hypocrisy on helping “working families.”

By |2018-11-23T18:48:21-05:00November 12th, 2017|Politicians, all types, Poverty and income|

In Rubio's Florida, for example, the maximum monthly welfare payment for a family is $303, even though a federal poverty line income is about $1500 a month for a family of three. That's some lifestyle.

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