Termyn8or
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Maybe one of the reasons Women are only 25 % is because they have an alternative way to pay rent.
But you will see more homelessness, even if Trump succeeds in bringing jobs back and/or keeping them from leaving, there are simply less jobs. One Man can do the work of ten now, what happens to the other nine ?
You don't see Germany bitching about China taking their jobs, they adapted. They became extremely productive, so much so that they are really taking their own jobs away. The reduced the work week many years ago, now it is even worse with many Germans unable to afford to live on their own.
They adapted this is what the US failed to do. Partly because companies didn't want to. They can't make vitamin pills here because some of the waste needs special handling. Increasing productivity does nothing to cure that. The few decent jobs here are taken and people hold on for dear life. Overtime no problem, take a day off, no problem. Whatever the company wants. You ain't getting those jobs.
With the EPA de-fanged we might get something, but the old days are not coming back.
And the guy dragging his kids around ? The welfare system here is seriously rigged against the White male. I have seen the cars parked at the welfare office and when you see new SUVs, guess who is not getting into them, White males.
And you can't get food cards without a real address, back when I had my house I let people use the address a couple of times for that purpose. You can't get them at a homeless shelter, plus you got nowhere to cook the food and that grub stub does not work at restaurants or for things even microwaved at the store. I have seen the signs "You cannot use EBT for anything that is microwaved here".
My Grandfather walked across this country. He supported himself on odd jobs and whatnot, there was no welfare as far as I know. So they put him in jail in Texas for vagrancy and after a couple of days they give hin ten bucks and said "Go get me a pack of cigarettes". Didn't say what brand even, and cigarettes were about fifty cents a pack back then, if that. That was simply a roundabout way of telling him to vamoose.
Somewhere in Utah, which is pretty conservative IIRC, they were throwing vagrants in jail. After while they thought how much it costs to keep these prisoners. They also realized that they were paying to guard someone who did not want to leave. So they just gave them apartments. They save money in the long run, plus they give those people job counseling, they have a valid phone and address, without which you just about can't get any job. They have a shower which is pretty much another requirement to get a job.
But even with my alternative rent joke, the government seems to prefer Women. You have heard of welfare Mothers, have you heard of many welfare Fathers ?
And this homeless Father dragging the kids around, they are probably already availing themselves of a shelter. Where to they shit ? Where do they shower ? But in most states they just can't get anything else.
Like I said, look for this problem to grow, for both genders. It is not going away, ever. That would require quite the restructuring of society.
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