“Why doesn’t he just raise the minimum wage so the teachers can afford food?/s”
Control. More effective control when you (gov’t) can easily take things away. Especially when those people become accustomed to, and eventually come to depend on, the ‘free stuff’.
Can’t have the indoctrinators or their families
go hungry, it just wouldn’t do.
this how “free stuff” works:
Trapping Feral Pigs and Other Parables of Modern Life
by Matt Bracken (aka “Travis McGee”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2949909/posts?page=35