Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC costs more than 4 times as much as it would cost to simply house every homeless person in the city, according to researcher Hanna Homestead.
It’s a simplistic calculation, but it does seem that often doing the right thing ends up cheaper in the long run. It just doesn’t benefit certain groups, so it’s not an option. If a million a day was applied to not just pay for sheltering, but to find solutions there wouldn’t be a problem to throw authoritative measures at, or use as a reason to tighten security and control. They don’t want to fix the problem, it works for them.
It’s a simplistic calculation, but it does seem that often doing the right thing ends up cheaper in the long run. It just doesn’t benefit certain groups, so it’s not an option. If a million a day was applied to not just pay for sheltering, but to find solutions there wouldn’t be a problem to throw authoritative measures at, or use as a reason to tighten security and control. They don’t want to fix the problem, it works for them.
Michael Parenti talking about American empire and it’s cost to the workers in the imperial core.
Which is fitting because I believe he also said (or he quoted someone that did)