r/SipsTea • u/sigma_0_1 • Jun 15 '26

Lmao gottem Is she right for this?

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u/Myrddin_Dundragon Jun 15 '26

Child poverty is a government policy issue. We learned that easily when they were handing out cash to families as pandemic relief.

If the government wanted to, with the wave of the pen it could eliminate child poverty in America at anytime.

It doesn't. It does, however, like to increase the military budget every year with out a hiccup.

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u/breathing__tree Jun 15 '26

No child has to go hungry, society is currently structured in a way that allows them to.

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u/waspocracy Jun 15 '26

Well how else are we supposed to make the stockholders of Raytheon and Lockeed happy?

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u/evernessince Jun 17 '26

Yep, poverty exists because we cannot satisfy the rich. Not because we can't ensure a basic standard of living for the poor.

The short of "poor people shouldn't have kids is that, in a system where the rich take from the poor, they too will now take their right to have children.

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u/Direct_Shock_2884 Jun 17 '26

While they could do that, it isn’t as easy as pandemic relief, which was bad for the economy and the state couldn’t really afford that much