Children in foster care were usually traumatized by the events that put them there. The instability of foster families, combined with the prejudice they face, tends to injure them more.

We could help them better if we taxed the rich more.

After centuries of reforms, and investigations of the causes of poverty, the UK realized that poor people who were making enough at the moment to live on were constantly in danger that some change would push them into penury. The welfare state eliminated that danger. It needs to be brought back.

These lessons apply in general to the US as well, modulo some differences in the details of welfare between the two countries.

US citizens: Phone your senators to oppose to the Dontcare bill.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

US citizens: Tell your congresscritter to cut off US support for Salafi Arabia's bombardment of Yemen.

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