The United States has experienced a 12% increase in homelessness, to its highest reported level. Federal officials Friday said soaring rents and a winding down of coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach for more Americans.
proof again that the government could severely curtail homelessness if they wanted to-- they just don’t.
We can invent billions of dollars to give away during the pandemic, and billions more to give Israel to continue its genocide against Palestinians, but solving student debt or homelessness or universal health care? We don’t have enough money for that!
Because interest payments make profit, and reducing people’s ability to not live paycheck to paycheck increases the workers dependency on the system.
Universal healthcare would, ironically, save the government, businesses, and consumers money all at the same time.
Is Hamas/IDF genocide against each other some kind of meme that must be mentioned in every comment section now or is this just propaganda?
Hamas isn’t in the West Bank. And yet Israel is demolishing houses right now so that settlers can move in. Only one side is perpetrating a genocide.
Sweet, what’s that have to do about US homelessness?
Nothing. It has everything to do with your comment. This isn’t a “both sides” moment. It may have been in the past but Israel is commiting war crimes at a breathtaking pace now.
Proof that the military needs more money, you say? That’s correct!! 😅
How else are they going to keep all those homeless people in check
Or accurately place a missle within 5 meters of Amhed and his little sister as they walk home from school.
No Democrats or Republicans actually get voted out for voting for shitty things, so where’s the motivation?
Democrat voters cream their pants and run to the voting booth so Genocide Joe can have another 4 years
Well considering Trump ( by his own words) literally wants to become a dictator and destroy any democracy in this country.
I mean unless someone wants to live in the second coming of Nazi Germany… But hey they’ll have “shown those libs!” when being drug off to camps.
This but unironically
The Build Back Better plan is basically a progressive wish list. Biden has done some great things that make him worth voting for.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/build-back-better/
What’s the point of thinking of our government as “the government”? Or changing “We could solve this.” to “They could solve this.”?
Considering the military budget is now up to 1.2 trillion a year and we pay for other country’s wars, the government clearly exists to make warmongers wealthier.
Because the government has on multiple occasions during my lifetime refused to consider measures with over 90% popular support.
Because they do not serve us as it is written in the Constitution. They serve the wealthy, they bend and scrape and lick their boots, never hold them accountable to the law, and never. Ever. Act against their best interest in any scenario. And the wealthy benefit from the social safety net having a big hole above a pit trap their workers are afraid to fall into.
Our leaders serve the people making noise at the bargaining table. We the people have the most power. We just leave after the first victory. We don’t become educated voters and choose to instead focus on exciting narratives. Elite interests try to affect change and so focus on reality. We the people seem to be after catharsis and so focus on symbolic victories.
But what can you expect from people who constantly tell themselves they have no power? No agency? They don’t conceptualize themselves as being able to affect change and it colors everything they do.
You’re judging the majority of the population without questioning why we feel powerless. The vast majority of news, media, and education we encounter support our oppression.
Just because you’ve been lucky enough to hear the truth and been in the right place emotionally to hear it doesn’t mean you should write everyone who is ignorant as morally inferior.
I’m not judging, I’m curious about why people say this stuff. The way we talk is intimately tied with results. Changing rhetoric is a big step in getting girls to conceptualize themselves as capable of “boy” things. “Chess is for boys.” isn’t just a phrase, it’s like a spell that alters reality. If people can understand how words have power when it comes to women’s opportunites, or minorities taking interest in voting, then they’ll eventually understand that it affects our agency too.
Oy. Arguing with nihilists is about as useful as pissing into a black hole. You’ll just get your dick turned into spaghetti for the effort, so why bother?
All I care about is that people can see what kind of mentality pairs with rhetoric like, “They control us!” It’s not a productive, insightful perspective that speaks helplessness into themselves and others.
except nobody said that
proof again that the
governmentpeople could severely curtail homelessness if they wanted to-- they just don’t.That’s why we formed a government, to handle shit like this. A government of the people by the people for the people. it’s their fucking job.
The government is just doing what its people want.
If the people want something different, then they should do something different.
Haven’t you heard how good the economy is doing?
you dropped this: /s
I think you’re just trying to agree with the downvoters.
don’t sprain something with those mental gymnastics
Homeowners pulling the ladder up after them is the single largest driver of our housing crisis. You literally cannot build more housing in the areas we most need it, due to regulations pushed for, and at times written by, local homeowners.
Would we need more homes if private companies didn’t buy so many single family homes?