Why do you think there is no "social net" in the US? The US directs over a trillion dollars per year to poverty programs. Certainly it could be better organize

Why do you think there is no "social net" in the US? The US directs over a trillion dollars per year to poverty programs. Certainly it could be better organized, but the starting point for any conversation about this shouldn't be that there is no safety net. The public discourse on this is based on a complete misunderstanding of what is going on. In particular the official "poverty" statistics exclude huge portions of assistance. So much so that many programs could double or triple their benefits and not make a dent in the "poverty" level for the simple fact that metric doesn't measure what everyone thinks it measures. https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2018-10-14-nice-to-see-that-somebody-is-paying-attention-to-the-poverty-scam https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2018-10-14-nice-to-...