That Gay Thread

[The Grand Nudger]

The gi bill is a great example, both for it's historic effect and the circumstances of it's implementation as a fundamentally racist scheme. I can think of other programs from the fsa, sba, and dept of ed. Similar in all respects. Each is shown to more quickly and competently close the wealth gap than cash disbursement, but none have been equally applied at any point in their existence. Cash disbursements also have observable effects. The pro is that they're pretty much the best thing to lift people out of poverty, the con is that they show diminishing returns beyond that. More-so when we consider the structures in place which funnel any amount of money, very quickly, out of targeted communities.

At the end of the day, racists will fight any proposal that anyone can conceive of - the only leverage being a conflicting urge to economic populism. It's become broadly true of the contemporary gop that the only way to have nice things is to bribe them. Lobbyist, legislator, private citizen...doesn't matter. A bribe is always the answer.