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Feb. 15th, 2019 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogRepublicans at the national level, including the President, are pushing for these coal plants to stay open. The TVA says that the capacity is unnecessary and, in fact, they sometimes lose money when operating. The Republicans say that the loss of jobs will hurt too many people.
So the anti-welfare right wants to, essentially, subsidize people's livelihoods by keeping them in their useless jobs while the managing bodies lose money operating unnecessary equipment.
Almost sounds like they want to, you know, basically give money away to able-bodied people even though they're not actually doing any important work.
Huh. Isn't that funny?
It seems to me that, all in all, the authorities involved would actually save money if they just gave them their paychecks and let them stay home. Surely the political right will see the sense in that?
But they won't. Irrational concepts of immorality inform their decisions. Paying people for working and encouraging people to work? Moral. Paying people who aren't working? Immoral encouragement of dead-beats. Who cares whether that makes any god-damned sense outside of their own heads.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/14/tva-trump-coal-plants-1170008
So the anti-welfare right wants to, essentially, subsidize people's livelihoods by keeping them in their useless jobs while the managing bodies lose money operating unnecessary equipment.
Almost sounds like they want to, you know, basically give money away to able-bodied people even though they're not actually doing any important work.
Huh. Isn't that funny?
It seems to me that, all in all, the authorities involved would actually save money if they just gave them their paychecks and let them stay home. Surely the political right will see the sense in that?
But they won't. Irrational concepts of immorality inform their decisions. Paying people for working and encouraging people to work? Moral. Paying people who aren't working? Immoral encouragement of dead-beats. Who cares whether that makes any god-damned sense outside of their own heads.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/14/tva-trump-coal-plants-1170008
