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Originally Posted by Sidewinder
Yes, of course the $168/day includes the "administrative" costs. That's the point. We're allegedly spending all this money to "fight poverty", but we're really spending it doing NOTHING.
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I agree, politically and economically. Others, obviously, will not, because in their minds they can justify spending $150 a day passing out $18 and then following up with further investigations and paper work to assure that the recipient of the $18 "deserved it" and "spent it" on one of the "restricted uses."
But, again, IMO, that IS the point.
It provides a number of jobs from paper pushers to investiators, and once those jobs are created with union protected benefits and status, the $18 needs to keep being passed out to justify the continuation of the employment of the paper pushers and investigators.
The "two-fer" in the deal is that the politicians who keep the $18 coming will get the votes of the recipients of the $18 and the paper pushers and investigators, and they get to "buy" their votes with taxpayers' money.
You think the dealer is gonna let the user go into business for himself?