Oakland CA giving FREE STUFF to their poor

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Oakland will give low-income families of color $500 per month, no strings attached

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced this week that the city will launch a guaranteed income project to give hundreds of Black and Indigenous families and people of color $500 per month for 18 months.

www.cnn.com

 

[Eric]

You mean like welfare for poor people instead of the rich? This is a fucking outrage, if they're not a multi-billion dollar company then I don't want a penny of my tax dollars going to them.

 

[Pumbaa]

You mean like welfare for poor people instead of the rich? This is a fucking outrage, if they're not a multi-billion dollar company then I don't want a penny of my tax dollars going to them.

Outrage indeed! And giving tax dollars to indigenous people? Can’t they just go back to where they came from?

 

[Eric]

Outrage indeed! And giving tax dollars to indigenous people? Can’t they just go back to where they came from?

Don't let the fact that their unemployment rate is more than twice that of white people or that they're born into poverty in one of the most oppressive regions in the country during the biggest pandemic of our lifetime sway you either, oil companies need that money for subsidies damnit!

 

[Pumbaa]

Don't let the fact that they're unemployment rate is more than twice that of white people or that they're born into poverty in one of the most oppressive regions in the country during the biggest pandemic of our lifetime sway you either, oil companies need that money for subsidies damnit!

See, higher unemployment rate proves they just don’t want to work. If they didn’t want to be poor they would just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get high-paying jobs. Just look at the billionaires and how much richer they’ve gotten during the hoaxy pandemic while lazy poor people have gotten poorer.

Give poor people money and they’ll just waste it on basic needs. Give rich people money and they’ll invest it and get even richer. But don’t mistake that for evidence that rich people don’t need handouts and that poor people get stuck in poverty when they have to spend every cent they get their hands on just to survive, no no no. It is evidence that poor people are poor by choice! And rich people deserve to be rewarded. Poor people get so much anyways from all the trickle-down. In fact, subsidies for caring entities such as oil and coal companies should be classified as charity towards the poor!

 

[SuperMatt]

See, higher unemployment rate proves they just don’t want to work. If they didn’t want to be poor they would just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get high-paying jobs. Just look at the billionaires and how much richer they’ve gotten during the hoaxy pandemic while lazy poor people have gotten poorer.

Give poor people money and they’ll just waste it on basic needs. Give rich people money and they’ll invest it and get even richer. But don’t mistake that for evidence that rich people don’t need handouts and that poor people get stuck in poverty when they have to spend every cent they get their hands on just to survive, no no no. It is evidence that poor people are poor by choice! And rich people deserve to be rewarded. Poor people get so much anyways from all the trickle-down. In fact, subsidies for caring entities such as oil and coal companies should be classified as charity towards the poor!

This reminds me of the “Lucky Ducky” series of comics from Tom the Dancing Bug....

Lucky Ducky Day

In honor of today, Lucky Ducky Day, we present the very first Lucky Ducky episode. Lucky Ducky originally came to life in response to a Wall Street Journal editorial arguing that people who are too poor to pay taxes are...

gocomics.typepad.com

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Not to be outdone, SF kicked it up a notch by doubling the amount and drilling down to the struggling artist demographic.

San Francisco Launches ‘Guaranteed Income’ Pilot Program for Struggling Artists | KQED

The cash relief program, now accepting applications, aims to support artists in communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

www.kqed.org

I’d argue that is about 10 years too late because that’s when the bulk of starving artists started leaving SF to move to LA due to cost of living.

I find it interesting that SF suddenly cares about starving artists again at the same time there’s a mass exodus of tech workers due to Covid work limitations and paying sky high rents in a city that didn’t offer much to do with the lockdowns.

 

[Pumbaa]

Not to be outdone, SF kicked it up a notch by doubling the amount and drilling down to the struggling artist demographic.

San Francisco Launches ‘Guaranteed Income’ Pilot Program for Struggling Artists | KQED

The cash relief program, now accepting applications, aims to support artists in communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

www.kqed.org

I’d argue that is about 10 years too late because that’s when the bulk of starving artists started leaving SF to move to LA due to cost of living.

I find it interesting that SF suddenly cares about starving artists again at the same time there’s a mass exodus of tech workers due to Covid work limitations and paying sky high rents in a city that didn’t offer much to do with the lockdowns.

Go SF!

Are struggling con artists covered? I’m sure they feel “disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic”. The “not exceed a specified income threshold“ should be trivial as they don’t pay taxes if they can avoid it. Having an artistic practice “rooted in a historically marginalized community” should be fine. Maybe by preying on poor people or worst case renting a P.O. box or having a fall guy in a bad neighborhood?

 

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[Chew Toy McCoy]

Go SF!

Are struggling con artists covered? I’m sure they feel “disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic”. The “not exceed a specified income threshold“ should be trivial as they don’t pay taxes if they can avoid it. Having an artistic practice “rooted in a historically marginalized community” should be fine. Maybe by preying on poor people or worst case renting a P.O. box or having a fall guy in a bad neighborhood?

Struggling con artists should move to Florida. Florida has been supporting struggling con artists for decades. Trump is just the latest.