Bingo!
Just another example of liberalism’s obsession with consequence-free behaviors.
Same old lie...
“you will surely not die”
Good point which doesn’t get talked about much.
There are enough people in the inner city and ghetto areas to support supermarkets. Even in low income areas, people need to eat, and they have money plus food stamps to spend on food. The issue isn’t that the stores couldn’t sell their products in the ghetto. The issue is that costs of doing business, for security costs, and intangibles such as losses incurred due to inventory disappearing, make it a losing business proposition to locate stores in these areas.
You can tell a lot about the health of a community by seeing what types of businesses are located there. Or if the types of businesses you normally see in other places are absent.
This has turned into a nation of sissies. I walked a mile to school every day, as did a lot of kids, and that is not a long way to go. We’re not all Sheila Jackson Lees who have to have a limo take us a block.
When I was young and my son was old enough to walk, we would walk a mile to the supermarket closest to our apartment house and bring groceries back in a backpack and in his stroller.
Then I could afford a house in a suburb, and no stores were within three miles, so car required.
Now I am in an upscale beach community and it is one mile up the hill to a small grocery and two miles up the hill to a QFC. Another mile up to a Fred Meyer. I have walked to all of these and toted groceries back in a backpack, but generally drive there, except for the little store, only a mile away. I would feel foolish driving there.
I guess I have lived my whole life, as a small business owner, in a food desert. Who knew that the gubmint was shirking its responsibility to me?
That is my first thought whenever I hear the term “Food Desert.”