text-only websites

 





[read full article]

 

Greater training and division of labor. Yes, you have abolitionists, just like you have January 6th people who wanted to destroy the Capitol building or whatever. But they aren’t the majority are they? No. Defund the police is “unbundling” police services. They CAN’T handle all of those things all at once. Lawyer? Strong arm? Mental health counsellor? De-escalation? Interpreter? yes it’s perfectly possible to increase education for police and unbundle their services for better community service. It’s not that they’re lacking funding. It’s where the funding GOES.

Greater training and division … [read full article]

 

Ok. Now consider this: Each shop would serve a limited amount of people, distributed by zip codes. So, they’ll KNOW where everybody lives in the neighborhood. There will be income verification and people checks which will be relatively easy because the amount of people served is limited. Also, would any fraud be about? Food. Food at a discounted price. Food that will clearly be “social market” food. So how much markup resale value is there in social market food? And — you’re what? feeding people. Oh no, you fed a few more people who felt the need to slip in? Will that double the amount of people being served? Or will be be something like 5-15% overage? Every program accounts for a % of extra for various reasons. Lost stuff. fraud. theft. etc. So, no, I don’t see the need to chop anybody’s hands off for government cheese.

Ok. Now consider this:… [read full article]