I think the government failing to address poverty is a form of hate for the poor. But good attempt to put words in my mouth.
PizzaMane
joined 1 year ago
"Why do people think conservatives hate the poor?"
Guess we aren't allowed to do literally anything then. Roads are just inherently bad apparently. Fuck the kids, let em starve am I right? It is true evil to ask a citizen for a fraction of a cent to feed impoverished children.
It's a lunch program for summer.
Which is why only programs that do good or are vital services should be added.
Food for impoverished children easily counts for both.
Iowa has a budget of $8.5b, and 339,000 people bellow poverty line, that's counting adults too. So $40 a month for the 3 months of summer multiplied by the pop below poverty is $40.6m, or 0.04% of the budget. That is a drop in the fucking bucket, even before trying to figure out how many of those 339,000 people are children eligible under this program. For reference, 1/5th of the Iowan population are minors. And this is a federal program, so Iowa wouldn't even be paying for the full bill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_poverty_rate
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/IA/PST045222
Iowa attempts to force women to have children against their will with a 6 week ban, and restricts it by only having a small handful of providers, then denies them the resources needed to raise the children that result from said restrictions. This means unwanted, unafforded children are born to suffer. They pretend this is a good deed.
[Spoilers]
Act 3? The game bugged out in act 1 when Shadowheart tried to kill Lae'zel. It straight up didn't show us the cut screen of them fighting, and defaulted to Lae'zel dying when we failed to stop it in a cutscene we didn't get.
The end result being that Lae'zel just didn't interact with the party for a month, and then suddenly drop dead, bloody on the floor after a patch.
What a compelling argument you've made. Truly, emojis are the pinnacle of persuasion.
Or to put it another way:
Who protects you from danger?
It sure as shit ain't the cops, because most of the time they're only around after a murder/attack has happened, and even then it's not even a guarantee that they do something to help.
Investment into the community through education, social welfare programs, and gun control will always be better at reducing homicide than investment into an already militarized police force.
Why?