The government-funded $10 tomato

The American Thinker ^ | June 25, 2009 | Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D.

[Scanian]

How could we end up with a $10 tomato? The prices of tomatoes, potatoes, breakfast cereal and other commodities are generally kept fairly low because consumers control what they buy. No matter what we do in our current system of shopping, we will not see a $10 tomato until Obamanomics causes hyperinflation and we begin using tomatoes as currency.

However, there is one other way that we could see a $10 tomato. That is if we get government involved in the food industry. For starters, the government could start a grocery insurance system for retired people to ensure sure that all retired people could afford groceries. This system would also be utilized by wealthy retired people, even by those who owned grocery stores and tomato farms. It could also be used by persons who were disabled; and a similar but separate system could be initiated for people who fall below a certain income level. One benefit of this system is that confused shoppers (such as me) would have fewer products from which to choose. The government would have lists of groceries that were acceptable, others that were off-limits. Perhaps there would be only about five breakfast cereals and only one type of our hapless tomato offered to individuals on the Government grocery plan.

Of course, we have to get much more complicated than this. Let's continue by making it impossible for retired people to purchase food outside this system. Then, the shoppers in this new system would pay a monthly premium for the privilege of using grocery stores. All of us would pay a federal grocery tax, the government telling us that we are paying for our future groceries. The groceries we will use in the future are not even seeds yet, but we've heard this before.

[wastoute]

As I have posted previously, where gummint health care will take us is a place where only gummint clinics are legal and only gummint prescriptions are authorized. Treatment and even screening will be denied until "first you have done your part" and lost the weight or whatever. "Back Alley" clinics will spring up like speakeasies and Lipitor on the black market will be available. Law Enforcement will send their kids to college and build summer homes from the bribes they receive to look the other way.

Curiously abortion, the Sacrament of Human Secularism, will be widely available and paid for by the gummint on demand on Main Street.

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[Venturer]

When all the foreign doctors go home who will give us any medical care?

[wastoute]

They won't leave, there will still be money to be made running illegal back alley clinics. Medicine will just move into the sphere of the Mafia. The mob will run prostitution, heroin, clinics, and Lipitor. It will be very profitable. Just don't miss your drops and bribes and when the goons come around make sure they get the "right envelope".

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[Vaduz]

Government farms coming to a state near you SOON it’s the democrat party way.

[CPOSharky]

Ammo, the new black market currency.