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Careful, you're using "Starving" in that instance as hyperbole. Losing your benefits and starving are two very different things. In the US we have a government
by hodwik 11y ago
Careful, you're using "Starving" in that instance as hyperbole. Losing your benefits and starving are two very different things.
In the US we have a government safety net, and a private safety net.
If someone falls out of the government safety net, as they are sometimes known to do, there are still churches and non-profits across the country which will provide them with food and shelter. They may lose benefits, but they're not starving. That distinction is important.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoNot starving, just generically dying: 2,380 people died between December 2011 and February 2014 within 14 days of being taken off employment and support allowance. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/27/thousands-died-after-fit-for-work-assessment-dwp-figures http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/27/thousands-die...
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoI'm sorry, but I find your comment astonishingly insensitive and disrespectful to those on the wrong end of this change. tl;dr People are dying because of government policy. Some people have in fact quite literally starved to death. There is absolutely no hyperbole involved here. It's a literal, physical, undeniable fact. The possibility that others may perhaps find their way to private help is largely irrelevant, because private help - if it exists at all - is geographically patchy, resource constrained, and often disorganised. I hope you never find yourself in a situation where you have to experience what this means in practice.