Ohjay1982 t1_itveuu7 wrote on October 26, 2022 at 4:22 PM

Reply to comment by YourFriendNoo in Many people despise the homeless, while living one paycheck away from being homeless by flavortownpolitics

It’s kind of funny, same thing with crime. Many people support heavy handed punishment for criminals yet don’t want to provide poverty social services that would reduce the need for criminal activity. In Canada the average price for a year of incarceration is upwards of 40k per year. If you had provided even 25k in assistance to that person there is a high likely-hood that many of the the “criminals” wouldn’t have had to resort to crime in the first place.

Facist_Canadian t1_itvgyd0 wrote on October 26, 2022 at 4:35 PM

You mean like welfare, medicaid, section 8 housing, and more?

Ohjay1982 t1_itvi25i wrote on October 26, 2022 at 4:43 PM

Yes, the same people that complain about crime will also complain that we spend too much on services like those and think people should make it on their own like they supposedly did. There is a significant population of people that would outright cut those programs not realizing how big of an effect they have.