Isn't trickle down economics how Big Government works? Big Government, via the IRS and Congress, commandeer your tax dollars and then deficit spend these along with future tax dollars. With all this money in hand, they tell us they are dealing with the poor, yet the rate poverty has not changed in 40 years. It this because of stupidity or corruption?
No. Trickle-down economics is how
small, privatized, deregulated government works-- or doesn't work.
Those in power; at the top, need the poor, too forever be seen as poor, to maintain their own status as providers. The poor are pawns in this political power equation. The Government led War on Poverty has spent $10 Trillion and has not change the rate of poverty on 40 years.
That's because it ended
50 years ago, as a right-wing and corporate backlash, plus the increasing social unrest from the Vietnam controversy effectively stifled it.
The programs are not designed to change the percent, but are an excuse to perpetuate wasteful and incompetent government programs. Government has become the problem and not the solution.
History has not born that out. Head Start, VISTA, TriO, Job Corps, &al, were very successful -- while they lasted. Prosperity has
decreased since the Reagan Revolution. Unchecked, -- unregulated -- business becomes predatory and rife with expensive externalities, costing a fortune in health, treasure, opportunity &c.
The amount of money spent on the poor is staggering. To support a single mother and two children you need to pay rent, food and clothing, transportation and medical, as well as all the overhead for the bureaucracy; wages, benefits; medical, vacations and large pension plans for early retirement. If we eliminated the bureaucracy. and give the total directly to the poor, the poor will become middle class; problem solved.
So just throw them a fish, eh? And "giving the total directly to the poor" sounds suspiciously socialist...
We did eliminate the bureaucracy. We "strangled it in in the bath." We allowed the corporatists unregulated, small-government, free reign. That's what
created the massive poverty, unaffordable rents and education, soaring health-care costs and stagnant wages we see today. It's what
eliminated pensions and unions.
Unfortunately, the Democrats put themselves in charge of the poor, and through their own incompetence and waste, money goes into growing Big Government, which needs the poor stuck as perpetual pawns.
You've got it exactly backwards.
It was liberal, Big-Government policies that created the large, growing middle class, good wages and benefits, worker safety, environmental, food and water safety regs; access to affordable education and health care, and the growing prosperity we used to enjoy.
Big Government, ie: regulation, is the only entity with the power to prevent corporate exploitation and the money trickling
up to the growing .001% -- at the expense of the working man.
I read that in rich states like Connecticut a single mother with two children costs about $37,000 per year in state and federal tax dollars. This total includes the cost of all the middle men. If we gave mom that $37,000 directly; $3000/month, she is now middle class. But Democrats and Big Government need the poor to be classified as poor; middle man skim, to justify wasting tax dollars on their own political needs. It a part of a big government and political money laundering scam.
A guaranteed income program?!
Exactly what programs/"political needs" are you talking about? It's Republican/Libertarian initiatives that are skimming money from the government -- enabled by deregulation.
The political left first screwed the country when they taught that alternate life styles were all just as good. The nuclear family, by all metrics, is the most efficient way to deal with many social problems, such as poverty. Divorce, for example, requires two households and more total expenses.
"Taught that alternative lifestyles are just as good" or
tolerated alternative lifestyles? The political left promotes divorce?
The nuclear family is not all that efficient, housing wise. What about extended families, communes, even creshe systems? Way more housing efficient.
If you double the housing needs, housing prices to go up for all. This now exceeds the average bread winner wage and created poverty, where it had not been. This was by design. The very people who create the problem then tell us they are the solution, with solutions that create even more problems.
No, the housing shortage isn't a left-wing conspiracy.
If you want to tackle the housing shortage you need Big Government and Social spending, pretty much the opposite of what you seem to be advocating.
The City That's Built An Affordable Housing Paradise
Now the push for many genders is another money pit, designed to create future problems and grow government. There is a push to reverse the damage done to the country by the political Left. They cannot be trusted to solve poverty since it gets worse. under their care. We need a new approach such as direct payments with zero middlemen cost.
What's a "push for many genders?" Are there new genders today that weren't always there?
...and wouldn't a unisex bathroom be cheaper and more efficient that two segregated bathrooms, if we're talking money, here?
No. Where are you getting these stats, The Heritage Foundation?
Poverty decreased with left-of-center legislation. Prosperity increases.
The soaring costs today are due to deregulated graft and gouging by banks and right-wing corporatists. All the money's concentrated at the top, and The Top is not the government. It's the 001%
And what is "The Government" in a Democracy, if not the public, ie: the people?
