Some comments on Zohran's grocery store proposal

I’ve said this numerous times before that they are complete hypocrites. When discussing the economic issues American citizens face they get up on their soap boxes and bemoan the issues like poverty, income inequality, how the American dream is out of reach, etc. Yet when poverty is flowing across the border they magically change their tune! The best thing that can happen to America is MORE POVERTY! The American Dream is now alive and well!

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Bingo! ANY government run business has absolutely the ability to put any private sector business out of business! Then upon doing so create the biggest monopoly and absolute power!

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Why are there food deserts? Are not these dying towns in which the population drops year after year because of people moving out? So a legitimate question is whether or not it’s the job of the government and the taxpayer to keep alive dying towns and if so how long?

The bodegas and convenience stores and Dollar Generals that do exist there.

This is why. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I used to work in an area similar to this. The people there are not what we normally see from humans. They’re broke, and many of them act subhuman.

As a toll collector with seniority, I make sure I don’t work in any of these areas. I’m not dealing with these bottom feeders.

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Here’s another one.

Another one.

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I understand your point. America clearly has its share of losers.

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Unsustainable. Ownership has since been taken over by the private sector.

Population 603.

The residents own and run the store.

Planned, not a successful operation.

Planned, not a successful operation.

Exploration, not a successful operation.

You really haven’t provided a single success story of a government run grocery store.

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So anyone think the Gastronom will actually do anything?

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Assuming he actually wins, I strongly believe reality will get in the way, and that he will simply be just another LIB mayor.

I get people that will take 2-3 minutes digging for 45 cents change, but won’t smooth out their bills. Give you crunched up crap. In many of these cases I won’t check. If I know I have enough, I’ll just say thank you. In many cases there are extra bills in there.

Another thing I get a lot…People will pay their toll in singles. When they see you counting the singles, they’ll give you another one. In other words, if the toll is 7.35, they’ll give you 7 singles hoping you’ll give them change. Once you start counting, they produce the other single. This happens on the regular.

remember…. the left never thinks what they’re doing is wrong. They just think they haven’t done enough of it yet.

“ socialism will work everywhere in America”

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Here is a short video of an NYC-owned beach.

Watch it and tell me how an NYC-owned supermarket is likely to work out.

https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/1938988940423262451

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Everyone has done it wrong thus far. That is why it has never worked. But this time they will get it right. :rofl: :rofl:

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He will try with all his might unfortunately to advance communism.

Communism never works.

I already addressed that and the answer is that the motivation does not admit what you are saying here as a critique.

This stuff is not even debatable. You can look in countries like Norway, who had an absolute wonderful healthcare system, and Sweden, and you can see how all the immigration has strained their safety net.

We all put in through our tax dollars hoping that when we can’t go on working that all the time that we’ve saved back will be available to us to use.

It’s a failed ideology and all the mayor of NY will do if wins is drive out more money and in place get more poor for services that will fail it fails everywhere

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My honest reaction to your reply right now:

I didn’t ask for your annoying Cold War platitudes.

If NY wants to pay for it, who cares? Certainly not me.

You’re around the Cape May area in NJ, what is your average property taxes there? If you don’t mind saying.