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Comrade Ocasio-Cortez has big plans for your dinner plate
American Thinker ^ | 17 Oct, 2020 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 10/18/2020 4:51:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber

isten up, worker ants: People's Commissar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is, once again, more than a little interested in what's on your dinner plate.

She begins by lamenting what a classic food desert the Bronx is, discriminating against minorities because she couldn't find fresh basil at the local bodegas for a gazpacho recipe she was making at home.

She begins by lamenting what a classic food desert the Bronx is, discriminating against minorities because she couldn't find fresh basil at the local bodegas for a gazpacho recipe she was making at home.

SNIP

As if inner-city people in the Bronx will gladly pay six bucks a bunch for fully organic, un-plastic-wrapped, sustainably produced fresh basil, same as she would. Yes, some do. But unlike her, they plan their shopping ahead in Manhattan, and they shell out, same as the rich people do.

She seemed to suggest that it was her mission to have the government force the tiny businesses to stock fresh basil, and she'd command people to eat it, too.

Three problems with this, according to a conversation with Thomas Lifson. He notes:

1. She assumes merchants don't know what their customers want.

2. She assumes people will buy and eat what they are presented with (like a commissar).

3. She assumes that it is OK for basil to rot on shelves, and (small) merchants should keep providing it at a loss.

These are all classic cases of where socialist central planning goes wrong. The businesses in the Bronx operate by market demand and the kinds of costs they can bear, given their business conditions, as well as what their customers will pay for.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism
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1 posted on 10/18/2020 4:51:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

She probably would not know how to milk a chicken, but she probably agrees with African leaders taking farms from white farmers and giving the farms to illiterate black people who never farmed in their lives.


2 posted on 10/18/2020 4:51:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

So Sandy, a born and bred Bronx baby, never heard of the Italian markets on Arthur Avenue? Or was she talking about her luxury DC apartment neighborhood?


3 posted on 10/18/2020 4:54:40 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: MtnClimber

One wonders why the wonder doesnt grow her own basil for fresh ???

Is it just because Im a privileged white person that I can ???


4 posted on 10/18/2020 4:56:38 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: MtnClimber
Here's her real plan for all of us:

Click here for Food, Glorius Food.

5 posted on 10/18/2020 4:58:10 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

That’s right! White privilege allows us to hide secret processes and formulas from the wretched of the earth...besides what’s a Puerto Rican doing culturally appropriating Mexican/Incan cuisine? Sandy must have poured many Margaritas at the bar, what about that, hmmm?

;>)


6 posted on 10/18/2020 5:07:53 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: MtnClimber

A supermarket doesn’t want to build in a ghetto cause it would just be a matter of time before it was looted and burned down.


7 posted on 10/18/2020 5:10:33 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Covenantor

LOL


8 posted on 10/18/2020 5:25:40 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: MtnClimber

“but she probably agrees with African leaders taking farms from white farmers and giving the farms to illiterate black people who never farmed in their lives.”

Seriously, this could happen in America if the commies win. Take away diesel fuel and our high tech farming is gone. Commies hate large land owners, and the huge farms will be taken away, divided up and given to those that know nothing about farming, let alone the ambition to try.

People voting democrat have no idea of communist history, let alone what’s going on right now in South Africa.


9 posted on 10/18/2020 5:29:13 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: MtnClimber

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10 posted on 10/18/2020 5:55:59 AM PDT by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply.)
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To: MtnClimber

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s only positive contribution to this world would be for here to be a stripper at a men’s club.


11 posted on 10/18/2020 5:56:32 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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To: MtnClimber

Soylent Green


12 posted on 10/18/2020 5:57:02 AM PDT by Phinneous (By the way, there are Seven Laws for you too! Noahide.org)
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To: VRW Conspirator

A positive contribution would be suicide


13 posted on 10/18/2020 5:57:51 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) t Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay My, o. h, my, what a wonderful day)
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To: MtnClimber; All

Lipstick on a PSYCHOPATH. AOCray cray. It’s in “government”. Agitprop for uniparty? It makes one wonder when the are NEVER called out by the “reach across the aisle comrades”...or are they trembling in fear in their safe spaces...from the PSYCHOPATH...or we the people? Dunno. It’s surreal...these times we are living in.

I know one thing. She cray cray either way.


14 posted on 10/18/2020 6:05:30 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

The problem is: The blacks won’t farm...


15 posted on 10/18/2020 6:08:58 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MtnClimber

Does she know she can easily grow it at home?


16 posted on 10/18/2020 6:09:27 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin; All

: ) Very entertaining. Thanks.

Take ShipT. My d-i-l raves about working it. She’s fast, efficient, super-organized, memory out the ying-yang, tech-savvy and personable. Doing it on her own part time she makes more moolah than she does with her teaching salary. Let that sink in.

Get out of our grocery store non-essentials. Get your germs off my tomatoes. Get your arse out of my stuff shoplifter.

We’ll get your fude, dude. Hey your biometric pay card couldn’t give you those oreos, cracker. Your BMI is way off...you’re 66 lbs overweight. That beer...no no your 2nd 6-pack this month.

Stay in your car. Keep your metered mask on. That’s an upcharge of $3.00 for breathing air for the 3 minutes you’ve been sitting here. 1/2 goes to the UNaccountables.

/nightmare scenario


17 posted on 10/18/2020 6:21:15 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Covenantor

There are no bodegas or Italian markets anywhere around here. There are two grocery stores in the entire county and neither has ever sold fresh herbs of any kind. Heck, there hasn’t been a fresh cauliflower on the shelf for at least a decade. Probably two decades since they’ve even had a can of pork ‘n beans. If you have two jugs of milk in your cart, you will be begged to give someone else one, or it gets stolen out of your cart. No, this isn’t the ghetto but that’s just how poorly the closest store is managed. I’ve told here many times of when I had to do what seemed like a drug deal or kissed up to the mob just to get some frozen fish.

Now, lets talk about food desert. No public transportation, no instacart home deliveries and a reminder there are two grocers in the county. Heck, there is one grocery store in a nearby county. That witch and her bff, Moo, need to shut up.


18 posted on 10/18/2020 6:27:47 AM PDT by bgill (.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

There is no fresh basil in my county and several counties around except for what is grown at home.


19 posted on 10/18/2020 6:30:24 AM PDT by bgill (.)
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Joy joy...green new deal and fresh basil at every convenience store....


20 posted on 10/18/2020 6:31:31 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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