Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n
\nAttorney General Keith Ellison’s office recently hosted an all-day continuing legal education program titled, “Price, Access, and Power: Exploring Grocery Costs, Food Access, and Competition.” Several speakers advocated for breaking up grocery retailers and establishing government grocery stores in areas that don’t have them, such as high crime zones and Indian reservations.<\/p>\n
A leading candidate for mayor of New York City favors government-operated grocery stores (and you know whatever they get, Minneapolis must have).<\/p>\n
The next Democrat crusade is food. They want to take over your grocery store and run it “fairly,” you know, like the Post Office or the DMV.<\/p>\n
Thomas Sowell quipped, “Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.” This sounds like more of that.<\/p>\n
I just have one question. After Democrats have made private grocery stores unprofitable and replaced them with government grocery stores, what happens to consumers when AFSCME goes on strike??<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes, Wal-Mart Grocery shopper<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
If government groceries work as well as government schools, we’ll have a raft of remedial programs and consultants and…<\/p>\n
…aaaah.\u00a0 I get it now.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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