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Sort of like a third world country?
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Just the opposite of a third world country. Instead of abandoning people who for the most part are educated and middle class, this provides them with temporary housing and services, with an eye to quickly returning them to employed prosperity when the economy improves.
Right now, the entire country faces a major problem, because the destructive effects of our high unemployment get worse with each passing week. The longer people remain unemployed, the more they burn up their assets and family support. Unemployment compensation just stretches this decline out a bit.
But if they have low cost shelter and food, school for their children, some police for security, and free clinic quality health care, they can “tread water” for years longer. At the same time, by putting a job center there, as soon as work is available, they can build up a month’s rent and deposit, and get their family out of the low cost shelter motel far more quickly than otherwise.
In the short and long term it costs less, speeds up economic recovery, helps keep families together, and generally keeps the fabric of society knit. That’s the furthest thing than what happens in the dog-eat-dog third world.