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> My point here is that cash clearly helps in some - probably most - circumstances. But "just give cash" is insufficient; we still need to work on all the other things as well.

True, but if it indeed helps in most circumstances, then we should just go ahead and do it. Right now people are searching for increasingly obscure cases where cash handouts won't help to block the entire idea. It's an easy excuse to make that enables one to do nothing.

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I think that it takes a very special kind of deliberate wrongness to hear somebody say "we need healthcare and education in addition to financial support" and conclude "okay, so let's do none of these things".

I don't think that it helps anybody to offer endlessly reduced compromises in an effort to find common ground with people who are willing to do that. Let's not lose sight of the fact that the status quo - even in the US - is already a combined package of financial, medical, and education support. How about just continuing to improve all of them? We already know that they all work well.

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