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Comment on Iowa governor says it's 'not sustainable' to give $40 per month to kids from low-income families for food

Iowa has a budget of $8.5b, and 339,000 people bellow poverty line, that’s counting adults too. So $40 a month for the 3 months of summer multiplied by the pop below poverty is $40.6m, or 0.04% of the budget. That is a drop in the fucking bucket, even before trying to figure out how many of those 339,000 people are children eligible under this program. For reference, 1/5th of the Iowan population are minors.

www.urban.org/policy-centers/…/iowa

en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ…

www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/…/PST045222

Iowa forces women to have children against their will, then denies them the resources needed to raise them. This means unwanted, unafforded children, born to suffer. They pretend this is a good deed.

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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
No they don’t. Abortion is allowed till week 20 is inline with most blue states.

Nobody denies them resources. They can get a job like anyone else and pay for their children.

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- PizzaMane@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Re-read
  
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  - wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What you said is false. Abortion is legal until week 20.
    
    The rest is emotional word vomit.
    
    How are people denied resources to care for their children ? We don’t allow them to have jobs? It’s their job to pay for their children
    
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jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It doesn’t take long to overflow the bucket by adding small drops.

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- PizzaMane@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Which is why only programs that do good or are vital services should be added.
  
  Food for impoverished children easily counts for both.
  
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  - jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Just a little bit more, it’s for a good cause is not a good gauge, any program could be shoehorned into those criteria.
    
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    PizzaMane@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s a lunch program for summer.
    
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- wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The road to hell is paved with good intentions
  
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  - PizzaMane@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Guess we aren’t allowed to do literally anything then. Roads are just inherently bad apparently. Fuck the kids, let em starve am I right?
    
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    wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Maybe their parents should feed them? Not sure why you think my money should be used to take of others instead of them taking care of themselves. Why do you hate personal responsibility?
    
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    intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Nope. The right response to that is to go beyond intentions to an understanding of the problem.
    
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