• loxo@lemmy.world
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      Homelessness is a very complex issue encompassing things like mental health and climate change. The president has no direct control over rent prices, they may be able to influence them to a degree, but that’s all. This is an integral part of late-stage capitalism. People in need are being left behind because America is filled with greed. One of the many things to help alleviate this would be the construction of subsidized dense housing in areas with high levels of amenities.

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    Reminder that the both the Mormon & Catholic “Churches” could feed, house & clothe every single homeless person in the USA indefinitely & it would only cost them a fraction of their net worth.

    They had rather sit on their wealth like the Dragon though, regardless of the punishments for that described in their “Bible”.

    That’s how you know they don’t really believe in their own bullshit.

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      Reminder that the secular institution with the Democrats leading it can also fix homelessness with even less of a fraction of their net worth.

      Atheism to the rescue again.

      Oh. Wait.

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        It’s not about faith. It’s about corporations. Religious, commercial or government, none of them are working for us.

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          His comment was about faith though.

          I keep having to read the dumb narrative that le atheism would fix everything here on Lemmy and everything is the fault of religion but the atheist institutions are doing just as little if not less than the religious ones.

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    But unemployment is at the lowest ever! We added 200.000 jobs. There was only a soft recession. Line goes up, and just in time for something important. What a coincidence. The economy is so great and we’re back in the bull market!

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      Few seem to care…including those who will one day be there themselves.

      What are those of us who care supposed to be doing?

      Amidst deciding which bills get paid each paycheck, trying to find nutritional variety out of food banks (canned fish intake should ideally be less than 10 cans a month per person, for example, and even rinsing canned vegetables/beans isn’t doing wonders for sodium intake compared to fresh), trying to decide which medical and dental issues we can afford to address and which just get to be endured, and watching debt go to collections because food, insurance, automobile fuel, home energy, rent, and everything related to cars has gone up, what are we supposed to be doing?

      In what way can we unite as a people and fix this?

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        I could not comment as I do not know you, but many people choose nice things like bigger cars, new phone, alcohol and such over quality food. Some however are in a place that they are trapped and have no choice and for those people I have no advice other than to really make some noise and vote accordingly if you are in a country you can.