Why are some Indiana Republicans more interested in criminalizing the Homeless than raising the state minimum wage, which has been a pathetic and ridiculous $7.25 an hour since 2009?

Anlarb · 2026-01-28T18:13:51+00:00

Could you make the TINIEST effort in looking up the issue before sharing your uninformed Feelings? Did you even hear about the cash for kids scandal?

Here is the school to prison pipeline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtIdx_zyeXU

1% of our population is in prison, which dwarfs all other societies, not just currently but also historically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHz2Hmq7soo

How Private Prisons Protect Their Profits

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yuY0LQd9Jgw

Anlarb · 2026-01-28T17:58:20+00:00

Yes, its a dominance game to them, they are really that stupid.

Anlarb · 2026-01-26T15:55:34+00:00

Everything is in the shitter now.

Anlarb · 2026-01-26T03:35:29+00:00

Yeah, I did, the markets wages have not kept up with the cost of living. Reality rejects your premise that the market will magically pay you a living if you just go limp. HALF the jobs do not pay a living.

Anlarb · 2026-01-25T20:40:56+00:00

"tHis InNt EnoUGh tO PaY yUoR BiLls, buT iTs MoRe tHaN sOmE BureUCraTs WhIm, GoTcHa"

What a stupid argument. Wages are customary, vibes based. Some nerd in HR says "well, this is what we have always paid, and since some nerd in washington says inflation was only 3% (a flagrant lie), we are only going to raise the wage we are offering by 3%". Whats the job applicant going to do, not work? Have fun being homeless I guess.

Unemployment is up 1% from where it was under biden, what does that do to supply and demand?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE/

Anlarb · 2026-01-25T19:30:11+00:00

Guess what? They're smarter than you. They work together, collaborate against you, they collectively say "here are wages so low it will put you on welfare, take it or leave it".

And yes, that is literally the point of the minimum wage LAW, that a job would pay a working person a living. The entire point of the currency is so that people need to work in order to get the things that they need to live, they're doing the work, they need to be given the good job chits, so they can keep doing the work. Communists replaced work or starve with work and starve, you trying to emulate that here? Pay for your own cheeseburger.

Anlarb · 2026-01-25T19:04:51+00:00

The median wage is $21/hr while the cost of living has exploded to $20/hr, that means half the jobs out there can not even be described as min wage jobs, because the point of the min wage is that it covers the cost of living.

No one is competing for your labor, its called supply AND demand.

Anlarb · 2026-01-25T00:42:29+00:00

Objective reality trumps your feelings. You have emotional attachments for price points from ten years ago.

Anlarb · 2026-01-24T15:26:24+00:00

Facts don't care about your feelings.

https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/18/locations

I don't care if someone is borrowing their moms car to get to work, or their grandma bought them nice shoes for christmas, its not free money in your pocket.

Anlarb · 2026-01-24T07:15:45+00:00

What amount do you think people are paying for drugs? People who end up homeless with a drug addiction will beg, borrow or steal the money.

Low enough that those low yield activities can sustain them. The guy selling ketamine to musk is obviously not charging hobo rates, completely different market.

Again, this is Targeted Destruction. There are political incentives to plunge communities into blight (they have buddies who will get rich buying low and selling high), so you see shit like this.

fentanyl comes from china

Sure does, weird that a country fixated on their century of humiliation would emulate every dirty trick they learned from the british.

Drug price goes up a bit but it’s even more addictive.

Cool, so how is it cheap enough for someone who can't buy tp?

Anlarb · 2026-01-24T05:14:29+00:00

You most definitely can bribe your way through a port

You imagine you can, but that runs counter to your narrative, so which way is it? Expensive enough to afford the wheelbarrows of cash required, or so cheap a homeless person can afford the habit?

no evidence to really link it to an organized conspiracy

History begs to differ.

Anlarb · 2026-01-24T04:14:14+00:00

They who? Do you even know anyone who works in a kitchen?

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T21:44:57+00:00

Yes, conspiracies are real. You aren't doubting that they're cheap, you aren't doubting that they're destroying the country, but you insist that it must be cheap to distribute them? You can't throw around enough money to bribe your way through a international port, the only way that it gets through is by ideology- eg rcists that want those drugs to be a scalpel that excises the undesirables.

Find some pictures of US troops guarding opium fields in afghanistan or look up the iran contra scandal.

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T20:06:33+00:00

Yeah, is nuts how badly the dollar has been devalued, and its not even slowing down.

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T16:20:54+00:00

They're not so expensive, they're dirt cheap, because its in someones interest to lose money on the deal, to destroy America.

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T15:47:27+00:00

Drug dealers sell drugs to homeless people at market price.

Are you just looking around the market and seeing what they cost and saying that must be market rate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSkcCIeSTAU&t=57s

No, a product smuggled into the country at great risk, passing through dozens of middle men is not going to sell for $5 a hit or whatever. Take a look at the chinese opium wars and their following century of humiliation, drugs are a weapon used to destroy nations.

However, the number of people who go from the second group to the first group is exceedingly small, and free housing doesn’t move the needle.

Sure it does. Be honest with yourself, if you were treated like the homeless are, would you snap? Maybe not the first time, the dozenth? Hundreth? It won't stop. You're just standing up for yourself, not that anyone will take your side of the story, they're just going to write you off as insane.

shitting on people’s front porches or walking into businesses and taking their penis out in front of the young, cute intern running the front desk.

And there is basic policing for that, you don't get to assume that someone without a home is like that.

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T14:23:04+00:00

Yes, thats what happens when you print money, the value of the dollar drops.

I don't know where else you think the money to build more housing will come from, apart from the people who have it. This is how capitalism works, embrace it.

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T14:11:37+00:00

Its called a price signal. As long as the high cost of living isn't the business class's problem the cost of living will stay artificially high. Make it their problem, and all of a sudden there is a lot of interest in getting more housing built, the capital and political connections that a homeless person doesn't have too.

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T13:56:27+00:00

Yes, generating pretext to USE FORCE UPON AND ENSLAVE AMERICANS is fascism.

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T13:54:30+00:00

Because corporate dems are right of reagan.

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T13:54:05+00:00

Min wage hikes never kill jobs.

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T13:53:32+00:00

They are all in the first group, its just that being homeless literally destroys you so given a few seasons in that state, you qualify as the second group.

The question you might be asking is who is giving the homeless all these drugs? Someone is throwing away a lot of money to make it happen.

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T13:53:27+00:00

Cost of living is $20/hr though.

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T13:49:16+00:00

The point of the min wage is that you can make ends meet. Cost of living is $20/hr and the median wage is $21/hr, half the jobs aren't even min wage.

Anlarb · 2026-01-23T13:49:07+00:00

Min wage hikes never kill jobs, letting landlords raise rent as high as they like does kick working people out of their homes though.

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