Posted on 11/30/2017 11:01:39 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Philadelphia City Councilwoman Cindy Bass is pushing a controversial bill which would force business owners within the city to take down plexiglass from their establishments, Fox 29 reported. The bill is specifically designed to target convenient stores.
Bass said this bill is about giving her constituents "dignity."
According to Rich Kim, whose family has owned a deli in the area for the last 20 years, the plexiglass is about safety.
"The most important thing is safety and the public's safety," Kim told Fox 29. "If the glass comes down, the crime rate will rise and there will be lots of dead bodies."
The bulletproof glass was put up in Kim's store after a shooting. He says it saved his mother-in-law's life after she was almost attacked with a knife. If Bass' bill becomes a reality, his family would be forced to remove the barrier.
Bass sees things much differently.
“Nuisance establishments like stop-and-gos harm neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia in several ways,” Bass told Philly Magazine. “First, they contribute to increased crime. On any given day, you can find people in front of these businesses selling ‘loosies,’ or loose cigarettes, and engaging in other nuisance behaviors like loitering, public drunkenness, possible drug sales, and even public urination.”
The councilwoman also argues that there are plenty of other businesses without barriers between the employee and the customer.
“There are thousands, thousands of businesses in the city of Philadelphia that operate in those same neighborhoods that sell the same products and do not have plexiglass. For example, you have bars, which operate in those same neighborhoods, no plexiglass, and often sell food. You have beauty barber shops, beauty salons and supply stores, Rite Aids, CVS, all operate in those exact same neighborhoods and don’t have plexiglass," Bass said on The Dom Giordano Program on a local talk radio station. “There is a focus on the plexiglass but the bottom line is these are businesses that have been skirting along for a long time in terms of what they’re supposed to be doing and what they’re actually doing.”
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Politicians like Bass are completely out of touch with reality. She's more worried about making her constituents feeling like important than she is about the health, safety and well-being of others.
If a business decides it's in their employee's best interest to have a bulletproof glass installed, why should government officials be allowed to step in and tell them they're not allowed to?
Clearly, the people who shop at places like Kim's aren't bothered by the plexiglass. They obviously have a sustainable business if they've been around for the last 20 years.
Ms. Bass, forcing these businesses to get rid of these barriers isn't going to keep your constituent safe. These barriers aren't going to suddenly make a shady neighborhood better. All it's going to do is put convenient store works' lives at risk. Are you hoping to end their lives or force the business to close its doors? Both options are lethal, in one way or another.
Read about this a few days ago. Incredible and only reason seems to be to further disarm local business owners and making them victims of local savages or running them out of town.
Pass the no-barrier law and let all the Korean shop owners move elsewhere. Who’s gonna want to open a store for liquor and cigs in the middle of that cesspool? Just shoot yourselves in the foot and see what happens.
They don’t want people to protect themselves against the animals they themselves have created.
I do not know (and I welcome confirmation), but I would be willing to bet that the entrance to the Philadelpia City Council is protected by a metal detector and an armed guard.
If the customers are concerned about their “dignity” they can patronize stores without barriers.
I suspect stores with barriers are more conveniently located and may even have better prices because they do not have as much inventory “shrinkage”.
This is not a problem that needs government to interfere with he free market.
My best guess is that there is some other mega corporation that would like to take over, but the Korean business owners need to be gone first.
Truly, a lion tamer in cage with ferocious felines faces far less danger than an urban store owner amidst the savage tribesmen.
Just take a moment to contemplate all that is wrong with this statement. If you really think about it, you might want to grab a bucket to puke into because it's that sickening.
We actually need another civil war. So much trash to take out, so many scores to settle, and not just the urban cesspools but their enablers.
Is “convenient store” typical up north? They’re called convenience stores in Florida. Just curious.
These are NOT convenience stores. They owners are abusing restaurant liquor licenses. And yes, the elected officials want to run these creeps out.
You want to kill people who are trying to clean up their neighborhood?
Exactly. A store for liquor and cigs is blight
Councilwoman Bass is black and blacks don’t like Korean store owners in their neighborhoods. I think she’s trying to run them off for her primary constituency.
Probably competitive prices for low end booze.
Anything else is wildly overpriced.
That is what it is outwardly, but there is usually a monied interest at the root. The corporation in question just can’t be explicitly be known to wanting to enter these neighbourhoods and displace small businesses. It has to look like it is filling a need for a deprived neighbourhood.
I was born and raised in New Jersey, leaving in my twenties. I also lived in New Hampshire for 15 years, working in Massachusetts. They were always called convenience stores where I lived.
They'd just kick down the doors. They do it regularly here in the US.
The clerk’s get held uup and killed. The result will the stores will close.
Then friends of the council will buy them cheap, the rule will ne changed and the businesses stolen from the owners.
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