Sesame Street goes all out bleeding heart liberal

[ShawnD1]

Why should parents have to spend their hard earned money on food for these kids? Feeding these kids doesn't benefit the parents. You seem to be arguing for wealth distribution. If the kids can't find their own jobs it is because they are lazy.

Stupid democrats won't let them work in factories until they are 14 or 16 or whatever.

 

[drebo]

Contrary to what most liberals think, conservatives are not against aid for people who are poor. Conservatives are against the current incarnation of that aid, because the poor people spend it on stupid shit they don't need, not food for their families.

I don't even nessicarily dislike some government-provided aid, but I do believe the bulk of the aid should come in the form of charitable donations. There are soup kitchens in every city, there are churches that provide food, there are other organizations that donate clothes. The problem is that poor people expect to be given money. Sorry, but if you can't feed your family, money is the last thing you need--you need food.

WIC is a great program. EBT and food stamps, generally, are not. Replace EBT and food stamps with WIC and I think you'd see costs plumet, making the organizations able to support more people. The poor, however, will bitch and complain because they now won't be able to use their EBT money to pay for their Escalades or iPhones. Pro tip: don't buy shit you can't afford.

 

[Atreus21]

Indeed, we should feel bad for those worse off than others. This is something that falls outside the purview of political ideology.

The question it does raise, however, is what is the most effective means to address such problems. In all of recorded human history, no other system has improved the lot of the ordinary person more than the combination of free enterprise and free markets.

Irrespective of what type of economic system employed, there will always be a bottom x% of people for whom prosperity is unavailable. The question with which the rest of society ought to be concerned is two-fold:

a) What system will give this lowest x% the highest standard of living?
b) What system will give this lowest x% the greatest opportunity to escape their current station in life?

Here again, the answer to both of the above is that free enterprise and free markets (for lack of a better term, 'capitalism') have proven far superior to any other form of economic arrangement.

Communism works very well in one area: families. Small-scale. One person or two at the top watching over those in his or her care. Capitalism in a family would be akin to giving food to whichever child worked the hardest. Ain't gonna work.

Capitalism is for large scale.

 

[BoomerD]

Let them eat Elmo

Give them a muppet, they'll eat for a day

Teach them to hunt muppets, they'll end up with impacted colons from all the damned yarns...

 

[Atreus21]

Give them a muppet, they'll eat for a day

Teach them to hunt muppets, they'll end up with impacted colons from all the damned yarns...

That.

Is hilarious.

 

[heymrdj]

That.

Is hilarious.

Laughing my tail off in my office

 

[Dude111]

That show has become a piece of garbage i swear!!! (Like everything else)

Yes its sad people who cant afford food BUT BRAINWASHING KIDS is not the thing to do!