jawagord wrote:
But if there's no eminent doom, there will be no basis for carbon taxes and redistribution of all that cash to faux green techie projects and yearly climate gabfests and money for tree ring and coral studies and the IPCC ......?
There, I don't actually believe the above, but I wanted to wish the other members a good weekend.)
dohboi wrote:Soooo, then the 'best' we can hope for is a small scale nuke war?
dohboi wrote:
Mostly, though, things are working pretty much as 'planned' in the good ol' US of A: The super rich are getting super richer so that they can insulate themselves ever more effectively from whatever sh!t storm is coming down the pike. Meanwhile, the rest of us are getting (mostly) ever poorer and ever more vulnerable to having whatever is left of our lives obliterated by whatever proximate disaster comes along, whether it be climatic, economic, medical, or (often) some combination of those and others, all while the already shredded safety nets get further shredded and incinerated around us.
The analyses in this report show clear progress in helping to protect vulnerable children and families from the worst economic hardships associated with poverty. The full social safety net has cut poverty
substantially and its impact on poverty rates among all people and among children has grown since the start of the War on Poverty. The positive impact of the tax and transfer system was especially apparent during the Great Recession, when the safety net expanded rapidly to meet higher levels of need as families faced increased difficulties making ends meet with earnings alone.
KaiserJeep wrote:Are you going to mail them a check to make yourself feel better about the situation?
onlooker wrote:Ibon, I submit to you that this hive or group mentality has been fairly pervasive since Civilization first arose.
Have you noticed that, 50+ years from its inception, no one is suggesting that the Apollo program was a failure? The Apollo program was an unchallenged success because it accomplished its stated goal: “…to land a man on the moon, and to return him safely to the earth.”
The stated goal of the War on Poverty, as enunciated by Lyndon Johnson on January 8, 1964, was, “…not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” Measured against this objective, the War on Poverty has not just been a failure, it has been a catastrophe. It was supposed to help America’s poor become self-sufficient, and it has made them dependent and dysfunctional.
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