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In reply to the discussion: This City Eliminated Poverty, And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It - HuffPo [View all]knightmaar
(748 posts)20. Nationalized Healthcare
When you have a national healthcare system, you take a more pragmatic view of these things.
What's cheaper? Giving poor people enough money to eat nutritiously? Or dealing with their health problems when they can't afford good food?
Ah. And suddenly the Conservative party economists are like, "Shit, we may as well feed the poor, then, huh? Not because we care though, because we totally don't."
I think this is what motivated that Teenager Driving Program in Australia, where kids can volunteer to have their driving tracked. They get points for driving carefully and the points are exchanged for movie tickets, cell phones, etc. It's cheaper, you see, to buy thousands of movie tickets than to repair teenagers at the hospital.
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This City Eliminated Poverty, And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It - HuffPo [View all]
WillyT
Dec 2014
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golly, they might actually have time to pursue other interests--art, culture, peace, for example.
niyad
Dec 2014
#5
I "work" in the sense we are using the term here, about 20 hours a week.
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2014
#23
The trap idea is also what happens to most poor here also today. I hope that this can somehow
jwirr
Dec 2014
#15
Bravo! A further advantage to criminalizing poverty and homelessness is that it
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#10
The GOP makes out that helping others doesn't work because hand-outs make people lazy.
Octafish
Dec 2014
#11
afriend here runs one of the local food banks. she wrote the other day that a person she had
niyad
Dec 2014
#14
VERY cool. A great example of up-front investing in humans, which saves everyone lots of money and
ancianita
Dec 2014
#13
Another benefit would be getting rid of the upper class people who get paid with tax money
NewDeal_Dem
Dec 2014
#52
"If the money didn't keep coming..." Money is a creation of the state, and used to maintain the
NewDeal_Dem
Dec 2014
#53
No matter how hard we try, we'll never compare to our fair cousins to the north.
mackerel
Dec 2014
#50
This cannot be true. I've never heard this on Fox News. You're making shit up.
Enthusiast
Dec 2014
#54
Courage, a heart and a brain. So, fearlessness, compassion and wisdom. There were only 2
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2014
#63