From: howdHol@yaooho.com   
      
   Boron Elgar  wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:10:39 -0000 (UTC), Howard    
      
   >>Complicated voucher programs with means testing and verification and   
   all   
   >>of that overhead don't fix problems and only keep people from things   
   >>like health care, education and housing. They make the programs so   
   >>expensive that people want to shut them down because of the overhead   
   >>costs per recipient. It's like opening every bag of Doritos in a store   
   >>to find the broken chips, breaking more chips in the process, and then   
   >>banning Doritos from a store because all of the bags are open.   
   >   
   > Huzzah!   
      
   Reporting on these issues drives me crazy because there is so much   
   ridiculous framing that goes on which includes certain things and   
   excludes others.   
      
   Elon Musk benefits from huge tax breaks and billions in direct   
   government subsidies for Tesla, and he openly smokes pot on the air.   
      
   I'm fine with both things. But the moral panic over a portion of lower   
   income beneficiaries using drugs is fanned to a red hot level by   
   propogandists.   
      
   Any gerontologist can talk at length about legal and illegal pain med   
   abuse -- but the issue doesn't come up with regard to Social Security   
   and Medicare, only Medicaid. And the point is not that Social Security   
   and Medicare should force seniors to jump through hoops to prove they   
   aren't overusing illegally purchased Oxycontin long after their hip   
   replacement surgery is over. It's that there is crazy panic over the   
   possibility that someone who gets housing aid might not be perfectly   
   straight and narrow.   
      
   The reality is Frito-Lay is vastly more rational in the way it deals   
   with broken Doritos than right wing politicians and the press are about   
   misuse of benefits.   
      
   Frito Lay monitors returns and looks for trends, but doesn't freak out   
   about baseline levels. They think hard about everything from top to   
   bottom, from manufacturing and packing machinery, the effect of   
   packaging, the design of pallets and they ways they stack and get   
   loaded, delivery truck design, communications with retailers, shelving   
   design, and more. Mississippi just blames poor people.   
      
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