Government is supposed to ensure that resources are distributed to those who need them the most. If you're anti abortion and anti sex education, you cannot ALSO be anti-government spending for social programs. The two positions are not ideologically complementary unless you're mentally disabled or actually evil and want as many poorly raised and educated teenagers and adults running around as possible causing mayhem, sleeping on the streets and filling prisons(our current status quo that is going to get worse if we don't emulate civilized countries that don't have these problems on the scale that exists here)
Parents who are low income should have access to child care, access to jobs that keep up with the cost of living as a result of government raising the minimum wage, subsidized education so they can sharpen their skills and earn higher wages with better jobs, and public transportation/reasonable zoning rules that change the city to one suited for people instead of cars.
There are people who oppose all of that, thereby setting parents up for failure and causing 90% of the problems we deal with today. The reason we have a lot of problems is due to adults who weren't raised right as children. Their parents were either obscenely wealthy and stupid which lead to the children being spoiled and turned into entitled and needlessly hostile adults, or they were poor and stupid and weren't prepared for the responsibility of raising a child so they controlled their children through authoritarian abuse or just neglected them and let the streets raise them.
The antidote to this problem is expanded education AND government investment in social programs which includes health care. A lot of these people who end up in jail early in life actually might have learning or developmental disabilities that are undiagnosed because surprise surprise, money isn't being spent on a public option for health care and cheaper school which leads to more people going to college and university to study medicine.
Children should be learning critical thinking skills, the scientific method, history, and health including how to communicate in a healthy way and how to recognize and address mental illness. Instead they're being taught propaganda and bullshyt. People who live in countries where the average city is walkable, they can access a doctor with ease, have been taught about safe sex and how to avoid unplanned pregnancy, are aware of what mental health is and how to seek help(which is also easily accessible) and have the financial means to support themselves through reasonable wages and accessible subsidized housing do not have these problems. They look at America with confusion and frustration because how can the richest country on Earth have worse Healthcare outcomes than a developing country like Cuba? How can some of the poorest European countries have less of a homeless problem than America?
Sometimes I think of America as an idiot that won the lottery but continues to lie to himself about how smart and great he is. He has functionally an unlimited amount of money but spends it in the absolute dumbest ways he can, if he spends it at all. Like many lottery winners he'll somehow find a way to end up back where he started or worse.
. I blame school conditions. I attended a public school within inner Atlanta and …
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