COVID-19 Reveals That the Real Cure For Freight Truck Congestion is Fewer Cars
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COVID-19 Reveals That the Real Cure For Freight Truck Congestion is Fewer Cars
COVID-19 Reveals That the Real Cure For Freight Truck Congestion is Fewer Cars
These don't belong in our cities — but right now, we need them to move fast on our highways. Source: Creative Commons.
It’s not every day that safe streets advocates have a reason to celebrate drivers going faster, but here’s a rare one:
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People are figuring out that police have a different priority set the last few weeks. I had to drive someone to jail last week, and I had cars passing me doing 75 or more on the freeway. That kind of thing would never happen a few months ago. More drug addicts walking around in daylight too, secure in the knowledge that they can stagger down the middle of the street and not get booked on their trespassing and misdemeanor theft warrants.
It is nice to have less traffic on the streets. Too bad keeping a bunch of people off the roads has such a negative effect on the economy, though. But it does.
It is nice to have less traffic on the streets. Too bad keeping a bunch of people off the roads has such a negative effect on the economy, though. But it does.
People are figuring out that police have a different priority set the last few weeks. I had to drive someone to jail last week, and I had cars passing me doing 75 or more on the freeway. That kind of thing would never happen a few months ago. More drug addicts walking around in daylight too, secure in the knowledge that they can stagger down the middle of the street and not get booked on their trespassing and misdemeanor theft warrants.
It is nice to have less traffic on the streets. Too bad keeping a bunch of people off the roads has such a negative effect on the economy, though. But it does.
It is nice to have less traffic on the streets. Too bad keeping a bunch of people off the roads has such a negative effect on the economy, though. But it does.
This pandemic has shown two things:
There are WAY more jobs people can do from home than companies have been willing to allow in the past. Once this passes more folks should be allowed to wfh.
Health insurance is a human right and employment status should have zero influence on whether you can get care or not.
(I thought both of these things before, this experience has proven it)
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Mikeb I’m going to add to your list: Policies that allow keeping people in a hand to mouth existence so that the rich can squeeze more bottom line out of their companies doesn’t pay off so well when employees feel the need to come to work sick.
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Nothing can be a right if it relies on other people working for you. If we as a society choose to extend help to people in need that's another matter, but to declare anything as a human right that relies on seizing the labor of others, is wrong. I've heard people say housing is a human right. Does that mean the homeless can just move in wherever they want?
I'll partially agree on the economic aspect, though. Yes, a market economy goes in cycles and we're due for a correction. But no matter where you are in the cycle, telling millions of people with jobs that they can't go to work and telling all their customers that they can't go to the store is going to have a dramatic negative effect. Part of it is going to be the panic in the stock market, and part of it is going to be that the small businesses that employ a lot of those people will go bankrupt in a month or two.
I'll partially agree on the economic aspect, though. Yes, a market economy goes in cycles and we're due for a correction. But no matter where you are in the cycle, telling millions of people with jobs that they can't go to work and telling all their customers that they can't go to the store is going to have a dramatic negative effect. Part of it is going to be the panic in the stock market, and part of it is going to be that the small businesses that employ a lot of those people will go bankrupt in a month or two.
Nothing can be a right if it relies on other people working for you. If we as a society choose to extend help to people in need that's another matter, but to declare anything as a human right that relies on seizing the labor of others, is wrong. I've heard people say housing is a human right. Does that mean the homeless can just move in wherever they want?
I'll partially agree on the economic aspect, though. Yes, a market economy goes in cycles and we're due for a correction. But no matter where you are in the cycle, telling millions of people with jobs that they can't go to work and telling all their customers that they can't go to the store is going to have a dramatic negative effect. Part of it is going to be the panic in the stock market, and part of it is going to be that the small businesses that employ a lot of those people will go bankrupt in a month or two.
I'll partially agree on the economic aspect, though. Yes, a market economy goes in cycles and we're due for a correction. But no matter where you are in the cycle, telling millions of people with jobs that they can't go to work and telling all their customers that they can't go to the store is going to have a dramatic negative effect. Part of it is going to be the panic in the stock market, and part of it is going to be that the small businesses that employ a lot of those people will go bankrupt in a month or two.
Every single right in this country requires effort by others to maintain/sustain.
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Look at the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution. Everything in it can be described as a limitation of others infringing on you, specifically in this case, the government. The government can't tell you what church to attend. The government can't stop a newspaper from printing. The government can't keep you in prison without a trial, the government can't quarter troops in your home, the government can't take away from you things that are inherent in your existence as a human being.
It doesn't say anything about anyone having the right to take things from others. If someone is hungry, they don't have the right to take my food. If someone is cold, they don't have the right to break into my house and sleep on the couch. They don't have the right to sleep in the mayor's office or camp on the sidewalk, either. This doesn't mean for a second that we as a society can't choose to provide for people in need- that's what representative government is for. If the electorate wants to spend some of their tax money on shelters, that's a choice. If they don't, then there's no human rights violation involved.
It doesn't say anything about anyone having the right to take things from others. If someone is hungry, they don't have the right to take my food. If someone is cold, they don't have the right to break into my house and sleep on the couch. They don't have the right to sleep in the mayor's office or camp on the sidewalk, either. This doesn't mean for a second that we as a society can't choose to provide for people in need- that's what representative government is for. If the electorate wants to spend some of their tax money on shelters, that's a choice. If they don't, then there's no human rights violation involved.
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