Why is it so hard for the left to look around and see we have it pretty good here?
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They only care about the lowest common denominator, the lowest of the low, the biggest losers out of the biggest losers.
If you have some policy that makes housing 80% cheaper, they will complain that there are some people still too poor to afford it. If you offer to give free homes to those people, they will complain that you have to fill out paperwork to get the homes, and that leaves out the illiterate. If you say you will hire an interpreter to fill out their paperwork, they will just complain that does nothing for people too fat to walk there on their own power. If you offer them free motor-scooters to get them down there, they will complain that some of them have no legs and thus can't lift themselves into the motor scooter.
Before you know it, They've taken a small issue that can be addressed with small economic tweaks (like housing prices) and they re-direct the debate so hard you end up talking about how to re-shape society to cater to retarded illiterate 500 lb double amputee illegal immigrants. And suddenly you become Hitler if you think they have their priorities backwards.
This. We have public housing. We have food stamps. We eradicated starvation as a cause of death. They still say there's so many hungry, so many homeless. It'll never end
Not only is starvation not a cause of death in America, but poverty is correlated heavily with obesity. The poor are eating too much!
Here's a perspective from someone who was dirt poor. What you said is a misconception. The poor are eating the wrong things because food stamps are finite and those wrong things lead to terrible places, including obesity.
You get around $200 for a family of three per month (obviously varied by area). A current food budget for a healthy family of three is around $200 per week. This means you cover the staples - proteins and fresh vegetables for most meals with some carbs scattered to and fro.
To get away with most of your groceries for the month costing 1/4 of that, you are eating almost exclusively carbs. Beans, noodles, and that sort of thing. With that sort of diet comes poor nutrition and further binging on carbs to try and feed the persistent internal knock from the body asking for proper vitamins and minerals.
Poor people are fat because the government decided to pay them just enough to buy the worst possible foods - foods that leave them in a permanent state of poor nutrition with the highest energy content possible.