They used to do this in the Soviet Union.
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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I bet the food they get will be sold once they leave the store with it. The selected people will go into the free store to load up on things they can sell for cash. They will take that money and buy the drugs or alcohol of their choice. This is just another way for government to subsidize delinquency.
And you live there?
South of there in a still-nice town. Things are very normal out of the big cities. But the Newsom crap he has teed up may be the last straw — utility bill surcharges based on your INCOME and automobile tracking.
Yeah, when I said “there” I meant California in general.
That’s what u was wondering, between the draconian laws, massive taxes and all the left wing idiocy id had to have bugged out WAY back.
We bought a house in North Idaho six years ago. I thought we were buying a summer home, but my wife loves it so much (and is SO fed up with CA) that she lives there year round. I enjoy coming back to CA because those winters are long, dark, gray, wet, and snowy. I grew up in that and vowed never to go back to miserable winters. My wife grew up in the Bay Area and I’m surprised she’s toughed out the winters in Idaho so long.
If you can hold your nose about about the horrendous political crap in CA, it’s still a nice place to live. The thing that pisses me off daily is the horrendous condition of the roads. That wasn’t the case when we weren’t paying illegals and bums tens of billions of dollars every year. We could have first-class roads if we would stop catering to the parasites.
I flew into SF in ‘86 and did the tourist thing on my way to Sacramento/Roseville for a 10 day stay......fisherman’s wharf, Lombard street, Golden Gate Bridge....stuff like that.
A truly beautiful and unique city, even back then just observing the people for only one afternoon I could see where it was going to go and sure enough.......glad I was there when I was, I have no plans or desire to go back for any reason.
A real shame liberals have turned some of it into a cesspool.
>> government-controlled goods distribution
the next ACA — the Affordable Food Act
You could offer a free kick in the nuts and the line would be a block long.
They used to do this in the Soviet Union.
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