Der Fuehrer’s Cloward - Piven’s effects continue on their path of destruction...
Being one of those old retired farts in the southeast the man is right.
I’ve got 2 Food Lions within two miles of me and two Wal-marts and a Sam’s Club within 3 miles.
The closest Commissary is through a check point and on Ft Bragg seven miles away.
There are still enough good deals out there for us to plan a trip to get a few good items once a month or so.
“Der Fuehrer’s Cloward - Piven’s effects continue on their path of destruction...”
This is just the commissary. If you add the true cost of running this for CONUS bases, I’m sure you’ll find that they are expensive white elephants.
There is no good reason for the military not to mingle with the masses as much as reasonably possible, and this one more opportunity to do so.
A military that lives around and amongst the citizenry is less likely to turn on them. That used to be an absurd thought, but it is absurd no longer.
If someone wants to run a grocery store and pay ALL the costs required to do so on base, let ‘em. Otherwise - this is absolutely no hardship for the vast majority of military members - and I used to be one.