WHERE WE R AT......

Once more, Butler’s essay is not about the act of prediction, but what to do with what is discovered. “Unintended consequences and human reactions,” she warns, can create futures that seem to “defy any obvious trend,” leading her to ask, “So why try to predict the future at all if it’s so difficult, so nearly impossible?” She then answers a question that she and many of her fans share. “Because making predictions is one way to give warnings when we see ourselves drifting in dangerous directions. Because prediction is a useful way of pointing out safer, wiser courses. Because, most of all, our tomorrow is the child of our today. Through thought and deed, we exert a great deal of influence over this child, even if we can’t control it absolutely.”

OCTAVIA BUTLER QUOTE.......I BELIEVE APPLICABLE TO WHERE WE R AT IN HISTORY...WAR CRIMES PROBABLY,A POSS WAR WITH VENEZUELA,ECONOMY UNEASY AND SIDEWAYS, INSURANCE SKY ROCKETING,FOOD INSECURITY,WORK VACANCIES BECAUSE THOSE
THAT WERE DOING THE JOB R FORCED TO EXIT THE COUNTRY,HEALTHCARE CRISIS BECAUSE THE POPULATION IS GERIATRIC,BASIC SHELTER ALMOST UNATTAINABLE., A LAWLESS LEADER....2026 IS NOT GOING TO MIRACULOUSLY MAKE THESE THINGS DISAPPEAR....
R U PREPARED TO WEATHER THE UP AND COMING STORM?

So many feminists see "A Handmaid's Tale" as the future for America. Some of these feminist judges are blind to see what is happening right now.
Foreign nationals from Arabic states where women are an underclass are coming to America. Here they kill their sisters and daughters in honor killings, kill and rape American women, and commit crimes..

These same judges often release these predators with at most a hand slap. They are worried if they charge them with felonies, ICE will deport these macho a-holes. These released demons then go on to commit even more heinous crimes.

Where we're at is the child of where we were. Federal charity with no accountability has led us here, all of it.

Do you think there is more or less food insecurity now than during the Great Depression HA? A greater or lesser percentage of the population unemployed, without housing, without insurance of any kind?

Today is the child, and the grandchild of collectivist policies like The Great Society where a federal government created to function on a macro level reimagined itself to provide for the individual welfare of some at the expense of the general welfare of all.

Let's take that citation about SNAPS you misapplied in another thread and apply it here and your argument about food insecurity. The conclusion reached by the author of that piece was that " . . . SNAP’s fragility due to its near-total reliance on federal funding. More importantly, its chronic dependency on Washington’s one-size-fits-all solutions has left it failing the very children it’s supposed to help. The best way to ensure healthy outcomes for kids and protect them from the partisan crossfire of D.C. politicking is to break the federal grip on nutrition programs."

Medicaid should have work requirements, SNAPS should have work requirements, Section 8 housing should have work requirements, every federal charity program should have work requirements.

We're well on our way to the collevtivist utopia of everyone being equally poor because it isn't the job of the federal government to care for each and every individual citizen. Every problem you listed is directly linked to this one problem that needs to be addressed. $38 trillion in federal debt is directly the result of the federal charity programs. They consume 60% of the annual federal budget and every dollar of tax revenue collected by the federal government, from all sources.

The printing of dollars to cover the excess spending of the federal government to pay for all of this charity makes each dollar worth less, which raises the cost of housing, of food, of insurance, of electricity, of transportation, of clothing . . . of everything needed to live comfortably.

You might not like it, but Trump overhauling these charity programs is the first step in the right direction. Ideally, we should be divesting the federal government of all of its self assigned charity programs, and the tax levies to fund them. Those who are unwilling to help themselves should not expect help from others. Ben Franklin was right - the more you do to help the poor the less they do to help themselves. Gotta break a few eggs to make a souffle . . .