Posted on 06/09/2024 1:39:37 AM PDT by Sam77
San Francisco opened its first $5.5 million free food “market”, where approved residents can show a benefits eligibility card, put what they want in their carts, check out to keep track of outgoing inventory, and leave without paying.
The Bayview-Hunters Point facility aims to be a food pantry alternative that replicates the supermarket experience in an area where many grocery stores have come but few have remained due to high crime.
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free food market? what about all the feed and support needy people organizations? govt on any level shouldn’t have to step in, but oh, I forgot, govt is the reason we have so many illegals, creating ever more reasons for needy people.
without illegals taking up services, jobs, stealing, etc maybe those in need of money would actually consider a job.
those things would greatly reduce the people needing free food.
Feral locusts at the food market!
Film at 11!
I have something just like it. My car. Totally free, just have to put gas in it.
As long as you have your government issued “eligibility card”.
And you can bet the criteria will include so-called “social credit”.
Accept that and you deserve what you get. I will not live like that, and would take a few instigators with me.
Yep. And our fellow citizens working for our government take that money from us, disperse it among themselves through their various agencies, and transform it into ten-cents of ‘value’ for every dollar they ‘collect’...
Ah, don't worry about them dollars.
Soon the gumment will collect up ALL that paper and coin and give us a debit card.
They'll check out your "social statues", determine how much your worth and whether or not you and your family eat this month....
As long as they eat each other.
What could possibly go wrong? Instead of scalping tickets, the bums can just temporarily “rent out” their benefits card at the door to those incoming shoppers who somehow “forgot” theirs at home.
Taxpayers are suckers and governments are thieves
The honor system is mostly long gone in America, it might work at first but the vultures will end it.
Me, me, me, ‘learn to say no’ , ‘self pride’ has been taught for too long and it is part of the culture now.
It may have been the 70s when I read about someone in a semi rural area that put a one time load of cash in a (mailbox?) by the road with a take what you need sign on it, about $1200.00 in today’s money.
The person who put out the cash told the reporter that over the many years, sometimes it ran low and sometimes it was far higher than what it started with, but it was self sustaining for many years.
This is to subsidize the suppliers, not the “customers”.
I’m sure this will be a huge success!
Indeed it’s why taxes keep going up.
The AP and all other stylebooks should say: anything supplied by the government without charge to the recipient shall not be called free, it will be called taxpayer-funded.
I.E. “San Francisco opened its first $5.5 million *taxpayer-funded* food “market”,
And the state has wasted $100 BILLION on a train nobody wants and will never run.
The government replicating the private sector? That’s a knee slapper. Why not just have the private sector run the real thing? Oh, yeah. The government 1) created this amoral underclass in the first place and 2) the government failed to stop crime. The private sector responded appropriately by leaving those lawless areas. But the government is immune to market forces and never self-corrects.
This will be a massive failure. The $5 million will become $10 million will become $20 million will become $100 million.
I predict this place will also close because of high crime.
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