As mentioned, Walmart Chicago is closing all locations, more than likely due to theft, like Portland. If you ask me, I’d say rip up the buildings and parking lots and put a lot of flats or bus stations or something as a replacement.
As mentioned, Walmart Chicago is closing all locations, more than likely due to theft, like Portland. If you ask me, I’d say rip up the buildings and parking lots and put a lot of flats or bus stations or something as a replacement.
For what it’s worth I hate the term “social safety net”. It implies that government systems are only there to catch you if you fail. In reality government systems are supposed to be systems that work for everyone. Public schools is a system, not a safety net if your parents “fail” and can’t send you to private. Universal healthcare is a system that works, you pay in via taxes and you get healthcare. Not if you “fail”. This is how it works in civilized countries.
No it doesn’t. The term “social safety net” specifically refers to systems that are designed to catch you if you fail. You’re right that public education/healthcare/transportation are government systems, and those systems are for everyone, but these are not part of the social safety net, and thus not relevant to what I was talking about.
And most countries have a social safety net, which is designed for people who fall on hard times. If you get addicted to heroin and lose everything, it should be incumbent on the government to help you get back to a decent standard of living, that’s what the social safety net is for. It’s literally a safety net for society.
You lumped in things that aren’t part of the social safety net, and then got upset about the term because of things you lumped in. Instead, there are two concepts: government programs for everyone, and government programs for specific people.