Economic Justice

[joshcryer]

4. I disagree in principle.

For an example, from an economic perspective, childcare has zero cost, because there is an opportunity cost for not having child care. If a child is not cared for it loses opportunities in youth development, and this affects minority communities the most. A middle class white suburban mother with a working husband (and she has a job too) isn't going to be effected as much as a black poverty class woman whose father is absent. That's just objectively factual. Anyone can agree with that. And therefore that "fix" would target those minority black women far more than it would that middle class white suburban mother. Yes, some poor working mothers would benefit, and that's great, but no where near as much as black working mothers.

To me economic issues are targeted at everyone equally. Which is why high education is definitely iffy for me, but I think it will impact and improve the lives of the impoverished more so than those in better living conditions. The student loan bubble is looming, however, so in the short term it's a major issue for everyone and would fall under economics.

SS cap doesn't fall in the social category for me because it needs to be made solvent, and it only affects the top 5%, so it's a no brainer (and Obama supports it; Clinton epically fucked up by saying the cap raise would hurt the "middle class" but she can flip flop on that and I'm OK with it, as it was never true to begin with and was a losing issue back in 2008).