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Home Front: Politix
It's Crazy On Many Levels, But Cook County Has Launched Its ‘Free Money' UBI Program
2022-09-21
[Wirepoints - Mark Glennon] "Teach a man to fish and he will still just eat the fish given away free."
-- Socrates

Socrates didn’t really say that. I just made it up.
Posted by:Mullah Richard OTR

#8  The Gulag Archipelago is the solution to bankruptcy of Socialism.
Posted by: magpie   2022-09-21 22:52  

#7  It'll work until they run our of other people's money.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-09-21 09:10  

#6  Ref #4: The plan has worked exceedingly well in the past. They appear to be sticking to the plan.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-21 08:40  

#5  Washington has finally figured out that the federal spending binge is helping fuel inflation, which is a primary source of the hardship being felt by the program’s recipients.

...NARRARATOR: "In fact, they had not."

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-09-21 06:50  

#4  Flat out buying votes with Food and Circuses.

And people are dumb enough to go for it.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-09-21 05:57  

#3  Payoffs to the Democratic Party's voter base.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621   2022-09-21 04:34  

#2  Stimmy checks, baby!
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-09-21 02:23  

#1  "Give away mountains of free food and the farmers grow khat instead. Then everybody in Somalia starves." An observation in Martin Stanton's autobiographical book Somalia on $5 A Day: A Soldier's Story(2009) about his experiences in Somalia.

Pay people not to work and then soon nobody works.
Posted by: magpie   2022-09-21 01:21  

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