Poverty is a Weapon of Mass Destruction

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16. There is no perceptible effect to people they care about. If that was a playground for

bank$ter/donor's kids it would have an automatic 10% increase.

The real killer is that it means so much to the people who are getting it. But as far as amounts we invest, what some people call cost, it's nothing compared to the hundreds of billions we shuttle to the rentiers, rent seekers, wealth hording capitalists...

...which we do by policy. That purposely leaves tens of millions without hope of getting out of poverty or near poverty, since government was and always will be their only hope. But it pumps up the wealth of the (us?) other 300 million people, long enough to get by a few years, anyway. Then it falls. After you are gone.

Such cuts have never been anything but tragic as far as I can find, but hope springs eternal, I guess. It will be in the history books, so we can see what happens, and it might be good. For whatever of a future is left, anyway.

We maybe should be building huge houseboats. lol, I think.