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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn't matter. We've gutted social services, and now it's up to the schools to keep poor kids fed, safe, and out of the cold, and up to the jails to care for the addicted and mentally ill.

If we funded those services, maybe we could stop pouring endless money into schools that has no direct application to education. Yes, I get it that you can't learn if you're hungry, but feeding people is at least one step removed from the central point of a school.[/quote]

What do you mean we have gutted social services?  You have no idea.  Food stamps doubled between 2000 and 2008, and again between 2008 and 2014.  Medicaid expansion, Earned Income Tax Credit expenditures keep increasing, CHIP, WIC, etc., etc.  Then we layer all of the school stuff on top.

I agree about the mentality ill, but I am guessing that any attempt to do more residential care would be seen as evil by civil libertarians.  Frankly, more inpatient and long term treatment is what is needed.

We keep importing poor and uneducated people, so we have a lot of poverty.

- social worker [/quote]

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