New Chicago Mayor At It Again: We Need City Gov't-Run Grocery Stores Now!
I didn't think anyone could be more of a disaster for the city of Chicago than Lori Lightfoot, then this guy comes along and doesn't say "hold my beer"...he says "hold my sixpack!"
.... with a drive-through robbery/shoplift and theft lane.
September 18, 2023, 10:14 AM
PASig
I wonder if all the products will look like this?
Does anyone remember those? My stepmother bought the hell out of that stuff in the late 70's to mid 80's.
September 18, 2023, 10:14 AM
spunk639
A government run grocery store in Chicago would make the Soviet Era Russian bread lines look appealing.
September 18, 2023, 10:21 AM
tatortodd
Groceries with the customer service of the DMV and accounting practices that'd the mafia blush.
Would you really want to buy meat from someone who wasn't hired based on competence and cannot be fired? I wonder if civil immunity will apply to negligent meat safety practices?
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September 18, 2023, 10:45 AM
chellim1
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Originally posted by spunk639: A government run grocery store in Chicago would make the Soviet Era Russian bread lines look appealing.
Yep. Socialism/communism has always worked out so well...
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
September 18, 2023, 10:50 AM
Skull Leader
Just make the food free and have the tax payers pay for it. Then you don't even need to hire cashiers. Just a stocker or two.
September 18, 2023, 11:16 AM
oddball
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September 18, 2023, 11:19 AM
ZSMICHAEL
As a Chicago native, I have a better solution. When I was a kid the Outfit ran everything. No problems with supply and some kickback to them. The store employees might look a little rough but you got what you needed. From time to time a body might show up the parking lot, but that would merely be the price you would pay. The other alternative would be to turn it over to the gangs. They run the city already.
September 18, 2023, 11:21 AM
chellim1
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Originally posted by Skull Leader: Just make the food free and have the tax payers pay for it...
Oh, wait... we already do. EBT cards? When do we run out of tax payers?
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
September 18, 2023, 11:30 AM
HRK
Interesting concept, government stores that accept government payment methods, so they are like the company stores of yore in the mountains of Appalachia....
September 18, 2023, 11:35 AM
2000Z-71
The words, "Equitable" and "Whole Foods" should never be used in the same headline.
My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball.
September 18, 2023, 11:41 AM
nhracecraft
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Originally posted by Skull Leader: Just make the food free and have the tax payers pay for it. Then you don't even need to hire cashiers. Just a stocker or two.
C'mon now, don't forget these will be Union employees, either SEIU or Teamsters...OR, they may even belong to both unions somehow!
To be clear, there will be NO skimping on the over-staffing of lazy, under-worked & over-paid employees on the taxpayers dime if the 'Chicago Machine' has anything to do with it!
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September 18, 2023, 11:42 AM
CoolRich59
quote:
Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL: As a Chicago native, I have a better solution. When I was a kid the Outfit ran everything. No problems with supply and some kickback to them. The store employees might look a little rough but you got what you needed. From time to time a body might show up the parking lot, but that would merely be the price you would pay.
Yep. I remember as a kid on the South Side, everyone seemed to know someone who knew someone who was "connected". I certainly don't condone organized crime, but they did have an "orderly" way of running their business. And the bodies that ended up in the trunks of cars were mostly guys from that world and not innocent bystanders.
_____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell
September 18, 2023, 11:44 AM
erj_pilot
Dees guys will probably be running the joint...
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
September 18, 2023, 11:50 AM
CoolRich59
Maybe you didn't hear about it, you've been away a long time. They didn't go up there and tell you. I don't shine shoes anymore..
_____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell
September 18, 2023, 11:52 AM
ensigmatic
Ohhhh, I hope he does it. It'll be fun to watch
Let us take a gander at Hizzoner's CV, shall we...?
Has a BA in Youth Development and a Master's in Teaching.
Before being elected Mayor he worked as a social studies teacher, has been a union organizer, worked on political campaigns, was a Cook County Commissioner, and ... that's it.
IOW: The man's never held a real job at a for-profit entity in his life.
But, his administration is gonna run grocery stores in places even Walmart couldn't make it work?
Yeah, right
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
September 18, 2023, 12:03 PM
chellim1
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But, his administration is gonna run grocery stores in places even Walmart couldn't make it work?
Walmart has to make a profit to survive. Government just has to find someone to take it from.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” ― Margaret Thatcher
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
September 18, 2023, 12:09 PM
corsair
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Originally posted by PASig: I didn't think anyone could be more of a disaster for the city of Chicago than Lori Lightfoot, then this guy comes along and doesn't say "hold my beer"...he says "hold my sixpack!"
Oh, we all saw it, even from a thousand miles away, this is no surprise. We all knew that electing this clown was simply doubling-down on the Lightfoot policies of idiotic governance. The 2nd place candidate Vallas was the main opposition however because of how ranked-choice voting works, the next closest vote receiptants for progressive types like Lightfoot and Wilson went to Johnson boosting his tally and pushing him over the finish line.
September 18, 2023, 12:17 PM
egregore
The mayor is only a symptom. The illness is the voters who keep electing them.
