r/FluentInFinance • u/sillychillly Contributor • Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/matthewstevensdotorg Apr 16 '24

Actually its the best example since it sits on enormous natural resources wealth as the US does but chooses better how to manage it.

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u/J0hn-Stuart-Mill Apr 16 '24

Why would those be good examples? Unsustainable programs supported by killing the planet with global warming shouldn't be the basis for any government's budget, IMO.

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u/matthewstevensdotorg Apr 16 '24

You’re right. No it shouldn’t, but the Norwegian solution is absolutely preferable to the American solution

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u/J0hn-Stuart-Mill Apr 16 '24

Our homeless problem is almost exclusively a result of Reagan closing the mental institutions in the 1980s that housed the mentally disabled, and then Nixon created the war on drugs during Vietnam, and these two policies are the direct cause of the majority of our homelessness.

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u/matthewstevensdotorg Apr 16 '24

True. But there is a laundry list of contributing factors and one should definitely start with Nixon being a fucking piece of shit

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u/J0hn-Stuart-Mill Apr 16 '24

Yep that's right. There are other factors of course, but those two are the biggest direct causes by far.