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.
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Yeah
...and your point?
My point is she is not the ‘’poor oppressed minority Latina from El Bronx’’ that she likes to portray herself as.
Huh...we’re in basic agreement...my mocking comment was grounded in her “narrative”, exactly that “poor oppressed Puerto Rican nina”...in effect pointing out she knows darn little about the Bronx.
I don’t see how she could. She left when she was five and grew up in Yorktown Heights , a far cry from the Bronx. In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s I worked in a labor union in the Bronx. On West Kingsbridge Road, working on a new VA hospital. That was back in the days when the Bronx was being referred to as “Fort Apache’’.
Lol...Lived on Sedgewick at the South end of the Jerome Park Reservoir, 71-73. But yeah, kids 4-5 have pretty strong memories of home neighborhoods, it’s when they become cognizant of the world around them. Know that I do...could bore you and others recounting those. AOC is not worth our further efforts. Much more important things on the burner.
Take care
You too. You know the area I’m talking about, right there on Kings Bridge?
Yeah...used to get off the Express bus from mid-town near there.
Are they keeping competition out via regulation?
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