Exactly. Excellent points.
and, gardening is not all that simple, it’s complex. And people who can get junk food with their food stamps are not going to bother.
Dependency is a kind of mental foot-binding, and once a person has been raised as a dependant and not asked to become an adult, they can’t recover after about age eighteen or so. They are stuck in that mode and have terrible difficulty getting out of it.
they are sort of non-adults for the rest of their lives and a burden and a trouble to society. the shift back and forth between rages and begging.
they are NOT going to garden.
surely Rahm knows this.
Benefit to Rahm’s contractor friends: Contracts to import “good” soil, erect 16 foot high fences around the plots to keep the Neanderthals out, security, lighting, transportation of food out to markets, agricultural inspectors, watering systems, etc., etc.
Benefit to Rahm in votes: priceless.