were paying a living wage and supporting the Federal government in a jobs\education\rebuilding wealth-creating production-in-this-country program which invests money in those that create demand instead of giving it to the wealthy who don't.
If that's too much, how about providing SAFE fucking shelters that are up to the standards of someone who thinks they know how everyone
ought to live. Surely that would be cheaper than what this is going to cost. And a lot more respectful.
These people care about their kids, and, frankly, there have been a lot of very bad decisions made over the past few years that probably contributed to their problems, decisions made well above their pay grade (above most of us), with far less consequences, so pounding on these parents for their decisions is a little chickenshit. As long as the kids are fed and more or less clean and able to be taken to a doctor as needed, they beat the hell out of the parents who use them as a punching bag, or leave their kids in the car while they are inside a bar. Or Walmart. But those take more work to find, and they fight back more.
The parent's contention that they are being punished for being "poor" is believable. They have 300 square feet, but if they spent more
money 89 square feet with no running water might not have generated a phone call. Looks like the kind of siding you have really does make a difference.
That's a happy black family in the picture. I would like to find out how many of the people who are involved in telling them how they should live their life are white.
Houston, we may have a problem.
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