Just as an aside.... Caught a feature this week on the Swann - Rendell race. One, let me say my knowledge of Rendell stems from his role in The Gore Affair in 2000, where his conduct was shameless and I believe caused harm to country in that it fostered cynicism about elections. Anyway, I despise Fast Eddie for that.
Back to the point, Swann was shown working through a poor area of Phiily. A little old black lady asks him if he'll see to it as governor that she gets a supermarket in the neighborhood. She said Ed Rendell promised he would! What do you say to such voters?
"You have money, and you want to buy food. You want to do business, and nobody is here to do business with you. You're just like everyone else - everyone wants to do business. Even Amish farmers out in the country buy and sell things.The trouble is that nobody is in the neighborhood who has food to sell. If this neighborhood needs a supermarket, there is only one reason it wouldn't have it - the people who operate supermarkets for a living have trouble making a living operating one here.
Now I have never made my living operating a supermarket. But that's OK, Governor Rendell hasn't either - and it's not the governor's business to run supermarkets. If it was, the only person you should vote for for governor would the the head of Acme or Pathmark or somebody.
It's not the governor's business to run supermarkets, but it is the governor's business to see that people can do business. Whether it's crime or unfair taxes or silly regulations or whatever it is that's keeping you from having a supermarket, that is what I am here to change. I don't want you to just have a supermarket - you should have two of them - so you can pick and choose like everyone else!
And that's what happens when government makes sure that people are able to do business."