If you drop a few thousand bucks into a homeless addict's lap and expect them to snap their fingers and magically get all their shit together, you're as naive as a toddler.
Haven't there been city and state programs that do almost exactly this and found that, broadly, they are pretty successful and improved the living conditions of most recipients?
Oh no I understand that, but I think saying "just dropping money in a homeless persons lap WONT fix their problems" is maybe reinforcing certain turbo lib, anti-public assistance talking points.
In reality, dropping money in their laps often CAN HELP, potentially a lot. Not always but it clearly often does and hence such programs are a good thing even if there are certain individuals for whom that assistance alone isn't enough.
Haven't there been city and state programs that do almost exactly this and found that, broadly, they are pretty successful and improved the living conditions of most recipients?
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Oh no I understand that, but I think saying "just dropping money in a homeless persons lap WONT fix their problems" is maybe reinforcing certain turbo lib, anti-public assistance talking points.
In reality, dropping money in their laps often CAN HELP, potentially a lot. Not always but it clearly often does and hence such programs are a good thing even if there are certain individuals for whom that assistance alone isn't enough.
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