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Just give poor people more money

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Posted By: Big Bopper, 8/5/2026 7:53:55 PM

Socialists think poor people have too little money, and rich people have too much. I happen to think the truth is somewhat the opposite. A big problem is that poor people in America have too much money despite their proven inability to manage it. Poor people consume monster meals and quart-sized sodas at McDonalds, lease gas-guzzling trucks that are too big for the road, buy lousy food that is too much for them to eat, and get 100” TVs even though there’s nothing on. But for purposes of the discussion, let’s accept the premise: Poor people have too little money.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: downnout 8/5/2026 8:11:25 PM (No. 2135401)
Give them money and cut out and/or stop EVERYTHING else.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: seamusm 8/5/2026 8:18:52 PM (No. 2135402)
The loudest promise gathers the most votes, as in 'It's hard to compete against Santa Claus'. The poor who respond to empty promises rarely even recognize when these promises aren't kept. They don't have any financial risk from their votes since they live on the dole and have no investments at risk. Our founders understood that only citizens who had 'a dog in the hunt' as property owners should be permitted to vote. We have truly lost that yardstick over the last 250 years.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: czechlist 8/5/2026 8:29:45 PM (No. 2135404)
The pols can't launder the money without the middlemen.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 8/5/2026 10:02:43 PM (No. 2135422)
Poor people choose to be poor, in the USA. Not intentionally, but they do it. Most don't really grasp that their short sighted, foolish choices doom them to poverty. And you cannot be poor, in the overwhelming majority of the cases, from a single wrong path taken, a single wrong choice. I takes dozens and dozens of bad choices stacked one on tge other to arrive at the destination called poverty. Most blame it on "the system" or some other external bogey man, never admitting their own fault. Whitey keepin' me down. Never got any breaks. I always have bad luck. Are there no poor people due to circumstances beyond their control? Of course not, but the overwhelming majority of "the poor" got their by a long chain of wrong choices. Take all money from everyone and redistribute it evenly, then stand back. Within five years, the money will be right back where it started. People who make good choices get money, people who make bad choices lose money.
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Socialists think poor people have too little money, and rich people have too much. I happen to think the truth is somewhat the opposite. A big problem is that poor people in America have too much money despite their proven inability to manage it. Poor people consume monster meals and quart-sized sodas at McDonalds, lease gas-guzzling trucks that are too big for the road, buy lousy food that is too much for them to eat, and get 100” TVs even though there’s nothing on. But for purposes of the discussion, let’s accept the premise: Poor people have too little money.
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