Putin launches nukes, huge amount of civilians die, russian military is crushed within next few months. NATO wins at the cost of horrible loss of civilians killed by russian nukes. World economy shrinks considerably
This shit is the reason people ignored real Covid threat. You get never ending fear mongering in headlines until you just dismiss all of them as dumb bait.
A more robust vision for decentralization would allow for interconnection between these distributed energy resources. But that would require a level of state or local government coordination that has yet to emerge
In other words there's no system of selling surplus solar power back to the grid. So part of the energy is wasted. This is what happens when state is run by morons
A ton of kids in poverty were not born into poverty
The topic is about 6k for newborns. I was giving you benefit of the doubt, but you seem to fail to process relevant information.
parents lost jobs or had health emergencies or parents who died
These are separate cases, that should be treated accordingly. The entire discussion is about subsidizing parents of newborns. My stance is simple: Parents who can't afford child shouldn't have a child, it's basic 101 of parenthood planning. The lowering of cost of living could increase affordability of having child considerably.
The only good argument you've made here, is about imperfect birth control - this exists, but it's a rare case. There are many cases when this is a result of negligence, rather than actual failure of anti conception measures.
they lost their job becsuse the business was also halted due to the disaster.
Losing a job isn't something uncommon. The proper solution is to find a new job. This is ugly, and some support during the hard transition may be justified, but again single 6k benefit changes absolutely nothing
Blaming the parents casts a huge net and carches a lot of people who had shit come up in the 18 years between birth and adulthood.
Society benefits from children not growing up in extreme poverty
True, but giving money for free isn't a proper way of fighting with poverty. The proper way would be introducing reforms that make housing, healthcare and education fundamentally cheaper. That would be effective at fixing the very causes that make people impoverished
I generally agree with this, but I'd rather see government spending my money on infrastructure, like roads, power plants, research ect. so everyone benefits instead of giving it away for free.
I mean, everyone's happy when money is flowing in. But someone has to pay for this.
Also: 6k is pretty much nothing compared to the long term cost of raising the child. It really is a populist move - she's buying votes with taxpayer money
The satire flying left and right is legendary with that new twitter AI.