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This sounds sooo surreal as a guy living in Europe. Maybe you Americans should really look into how social welfare actually reduces these problems and make _eve

This sounds sooo surreal as a guy living in Europe. Maybe you Americans should really look into how social welfare actually reduces these problems and make _everyone_ better off? Giving free good housing to the homeless has a cost, but is way cheaper than having all this prisons, aggressive cops, literal slums/no-go-areas, security groups, … and a significant share of current homeless/drugusers will contribute to society again over time instead of causing costs.

throwaway10563 3y ago
The US doesn't spend less on social welfare then most European countries per capita [1], it actually spends more than Netherlands and Japan who are renowned for their public transport. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_welfare_spending#Per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_we...
- anonyfox 3y ago
  Maybe the same problem like in healthcare, where the US spends _a lot_ of money but there are lots of middlemen companies (including insurances) siphoning off the money, and also charge the customers? Looks like all this money that is spent for some reason doesn’t reach the target somehow, or only a small fraction of it. Sounds insanely wasteful compared to non-privatized operations, as if the system is designed to make private individuals rich instead of focussing on solving the original problem
unrealhoang 3y ago
No, socialism bad.