Soviet Union food scarcity
Indeed, in the good old days when Chicago had an operative Mafia, how much of this mass retail theft existed and how much of that existed in Mafia run neighborhoods? Sad to say, but the Mafia wasn't all bad.
When the Mafia ran the town the streets were clean and the people were safe...............
The city and State are already giving them the money to buy food, now they want to give them the food for free???
These people are delusional
Yep-
a free for all paid for by those they hate.
City owned grocery store ==> filthy disgusting dump full of rotten produce and spoiled meat.
city owned grocery stores will be robbed and lose to inventory shrinkage or disappearances. Whatever the correct term is for inventory not sold because it was stolen.
So then, the city will have to budget for operating losses of these stores.
So he can make his political statement about food deserts and all that, but it’s going to cost the city money.
And it will be hard for him and liberals to discuss the situation, because it will be black youth gangs and other assorted criminals, who will be stealing his inventory. It would be racist to talk about the black gangs involved in the crimes, so when the city has a hole in its budget due to losses at these city owned stores, what or who will he blame?
I realize that in politics, if a problem isn’t solved by your actions, then you have to be able to blame someone or some outside force for the failure.
But if the failure is due to black criminals, what will the black mayor and assorted liberals of Chicago blame the problems on?
“The first step in the partnership will be to perform a feasibility study”
$10 Million grant to the Non-Profit run by his Family Foundation?
The Grifting Must Continue!
I owe my soul to the company store
Control the food, Control the people.
Somewhere in Hell, Saul Alinsky is nodding his approval.
Communism - ain’t it grand!
Soviet Union food scarcity
Well, well. Someone who posts frequently here predicted this. Of course. The leftists have as a goal to destroy the means of production and make them part of government.
The democrats allowed rampant crime to increase, without trying to stop it. Legitimate businesses can’t give things away - they can exist only if they make a profit.
The left hates the profit motive. They hate private businesses. They want everything in the hands of the collectivity. They never miss an opportunity to make it happen, pretending not to really be doing that.
When the government takes over grocery stores, it will start out real good - everybody happy, customers delighted to find product. But soon the government store is stripped bare too, but stays open only because it is funded by taxpayer money.
This guy is making Little Lori look like Rhodes Scholar.
The city running grocery stores? Well, they’d be...
Never open before 8AM or after 4PM
Closed every weekend and every holiday they can come up with
Heavily unionized
Prices double if not triple the actual value of the groceries
Rude workers who only care about their next union break
No higher authority to complain to
Money losing operations from day one
Damaged or expired inventory
Year, Mister “Mayor”, this is a GREAT idea.
This is a fat patronage program.
After that they can ban private grocery stores because those are raycisss. Only those citizens with approved thinking and good social credit scores will be allowed to get groceries. Everyone else can starve.
State-owned, state-run.
No free enterprise, no Capitalism.
Let’s go, Brandon.
Democrats Have To Feed Their Free S**t Armies
Last warning. I don't care if you live in a $3M brownstone just south of Evanston, get. out. You will never receive justice if you have anything even remotely close to "Bonfire of the Vanities" happen to you.
Illinois is the saddest story in the history of the United States of America. One city has held the entire state hostage beginning 70 years ago, and exponentially accelerating 23 years ago; and no Bruce Rauner does not count.
The intentionality of it is unmistakable, particularly when watching the Chinese agri-footprint metastasize downstate in the same timeframe, as Christian conscientious farmers fled for bordering states that are not anchored by, and will never be anchored by, a cancerous Chiraq.
Chicago is split by 3 main racial groups. Whites at the largest at about 36%, Hispanics a bit less and blacks at 28%. I live in the burbs but for work I travel throughout the whole city. The only neighborhoods that are food deserts are the ones that are predominately black. Anyone inside the city with a different opinion?
The hispanic neighborhoods are full of poor ppl, they have poor schools and gangs. Yet they have supermercados. I think Brandon should do a feasibility study why one demographic has grocery stores in walking distance and the other has to take mass transit to buy food.
hmmmm ... If we have public grocery dispensaries ... we can eliminate all the snap and food stamp cards ..right?
Simply have an account at your local dispensary ... get your stuff and debit your account. No need for cards and such that can be swapped for cash. Make sure only allowed food is purchased...
Some where ... some how ... something like this could be better then then system in place now .... so .... can't have that.
Better to just throw more free $#!T out the door.
The “tax payer” (racist dog whistle) can foot the bill.