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The government pays homeless addicts to stay on drugs and alcohol (city-journal.org)
7 points by Bostonian on Aug 20, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Surprise! surprise. surprise ...

Just another mechanism like Jails, the medical systems, the welfare system etc

When you are within a system of receiving say $1000 a month or maybe $10,000 a month while you the beneficiary remain ignorant and hooked on the "Universal basic income (UBI)" or welfare cheque, or free pills, or 'prison cell'

yet the administrator keeps the rest - when will you wake up - educate yourself and claim the full beneficiary income??!!

you deserve all you get - do you remain a plebeian (citizen) or work towards patrician (denizen)?


"City Journal is a public policy magazine and website, published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research."


OK. Do you have any specific criticisms of the article?


The fact that the authors are salesmen? Their job is to sell policy, not to evaluate it, and glossy sales brochures are justifiably ridiculed and definitely off-topic here.


^ that. I'm so VERY done with right-wing/conservative think-tanks pushing their nonsense.

And before we even take the tedious, well-trodden next step: No, from where I'm standing, the left does not indulge in similar behavior. Colbert was only half-joking when he stated that "reality has a well-known liberal bias"




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