Same as it ever was.
The Cruelty Is The Point.
They’d put all the money in a literal pile and set it on literal fire before they’d just help people who need the help.
If I had to characterize the US govt when it comes to helping its citizens I’d compare it to Immortan Joe.
Immortan Joe: Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
the stupid thing is, scandinavia mostly cured their homeless problem. They put up homeless apartment buildings, then assisted them to reintegrate into society, by getting a job, finding a place to live etc. They… saw the humanity and helped them achieve something. Oh, but the USA would never help people down on their luck. Ugh.
Cruelty is the point. I really don’t think this country will ever change in any positive direction, sadly.
The point is to 'test run" military protection around the White House.
This. They know that none of this is sustainable on a the grand scale.
It worse than the country won’t change - it’s humanity that won’t change.
I’m very supportive out housing the homeless as a fix, but to be clear math is on a per-day basis, it isn’t some sort of long term fix.
I hate these stupid math headlines that don’t actually make any sense.
Current deployment costs are around $1.1 million per day, housing all of those people in shelters at $45 per person works out to something like $250,000 per day.
This math calculation entirely ignores the fact that there aren’t enough shelters to actually do that.
Would other costs go down over time? Housed people don’t need emergency healthcare nearly as much, and with a permanent address that would open doors to a lot of things.
I can’t believe you would forget the interests of the shareholders here
When communist were forced on Poland by soviets in 1945 one of their tasks for the next decade (that continued until 1980 collapse) was to build houses and give it to people. Other tasks were less nice like killing opposition, but housing was indeed how they decided to spent the resources.
US could start a massive communal housing programm on federal budget. They chose not to.
Sure but helping the homeless would make them actual Christians following the teachings of Christ and we know that now what Republican Christians do.
Trump only ever claimed to be Christian to sell bibles.
With his name plastered all over it, probably. Because T stands for tacky, not trump.
Breaking news Trump is a moron
He is, but his puppeteers aren’t, they are evil and played the long game.
Who are his puppeteers?
Heritage Foundation
The man is world famous as a money mismanager
What a waste.
countless after countless studies showed UBI will eliminate homelessness and wasteful bureaucracy to keep watch of welfare recipients and cheats
Everyone: Nah, we don’t do that here.
How else are you going to keep everyone else in line if the fear of being homeless isn’t hanging over their heads?
“Showy? Useless? Expensive? Hurts poor people? Sounds pretty good but are you sure there is no way to put a yuge golden TRUMP sign on it?”
Trump (probably)
Eric Adams Syndrome: Spend $1,500 to save $1
He was never that good at numbers, that Donald guy.
They don’t want to help people. They want to surpress people. To those people it hurts to help but they feel pleasure from harm. Those types are everywhere in our society but they have found a common home in maga.
Entirely unsurprising. But invading a blue city is the kind of thing that gives those with the authoritarian mental illness rock-hard erections.
Helping people? Fuck that noise. We want to brandish our penis compensation devices and bust some heads! Time to own the libz!
Trump is a moron.
Oh don’t worry, he’s not going to pay them.
