(September 23, 2013 at 5:24 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: If you had created public messhalls where daily hot meals were delivered for the poor to come and eat, it would be a better alternative to this food stamp/welfare check thing.
I think we've got a better infrastructure for providing something like food stamps to people across the country, than for providing free meals in public spaces. I think that it's much the same for the other social services that are provided here. They fit our circumstances as a nation and I think they work pretty well, even given the inefficiency.
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