Tim Writes: > Access to Food Must Be Equal!
> The Bush Administration is proposing radical changes in the way food > has been purchased by Americans for the past hundred years. > Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter is floating the idea of a > "voucher" system for groceries which would allow families to make > their food and beverage purchases at any supermarket, regardless of > location. Allowing this kind of choice would destroy the system which > has made America so competitive today! A favorite theme of mine, although I usually phrase it as "What if the Teachers Union Ran Your Local Grocery Store?" Obvious features of the system. Stores are funded by property taxes. You may of course choose to shop at a "Private Store," but you will still have to pay the same amount to your local community store, whether you pick up food from it or not. Store employees would of course be rude and obnoxious, because customer discontent no longer affects their job security. Customers who complain can be suspended from shopping, and as they starve to death in the streets, ridiculed for their "poor choices." Your good standing with the store would of course be checked everytime you applied for a job, or credit. The stores would be filthy, the food spoiled, and you would have to shop during particular hours. Any suggestion that food dollars be distributed to eaters in the form of vouchers would be met with horror stories about community stores, which have to meet everyone's shopping needs, failing as a consequence, destroying nutrition for all but the wealthy. The Grocer's Union would spend lots of your tax dollars, collected in the form of union dues, lobbying for less rights for eaters, and near police state powers for grocery employees. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
