New York Democrats Ignore Warnings As Mamdani’s Government-Run Grocery Scheme Advances

Under its (amazingly) duly elected commie Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York City appears to be shooting for a facsimile of the Energizer Bunny with a bad fentanyl habit: It just keeps getting dumber, and dumber, and dumber.

One of the dumbest ideas the commie Mamdani has had is the notion of city-run grocery stores. Now, the city seems determined to double down on stupid by ramping up five new commie groceries in each of the city's five boroughs.

New York City Councilmember Jennifer Gutiérrez and some of her colleagues are pushing a proposal to require the establishment of at least five municipal grocery stores per borough.
The proposal comes as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration aims to establish one municipal grocery store in each of the Big Apple's five boroughs by the end of his first term.
"Let's make sure it’s not something that just our current mayor invests in, but something we can codify into in perpetuity," Gutiérrez said, according to The City Reporter.

Yeah, you might want to ask anyone who lived in the old Soviet Union how that worked out.

This is one of the worst ideas that New York under Mamdani has trotted out, and as you can plainly see by reading recent news out of the Big Rotten Apple, it's up against some pretty stiff competition. At least they seem to have backed away from the "everything is free" grocery store, which pretty much guarantees five minutes of frantic looting followed by empty shelves.

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As you might expect, I have some questions.

First: Where is the money coming from to build, staff, and stock these stores? From the taxpayers of New York City? What a great idea. Drive out the last few remaining productive people by implementing yet another stupid socialist idea, and any proceeds taken will be filtered through several layers of bureaucracy, which will soak up some of the boodle along the way, until there is finally - maybe - a little left over to buy a few bags of moldy potatoes to stock the stores.

Second: Who's going to work in these stores? Volunteers? Not likely. Minimum-wage employees? Or will these employees be demanding the generous pay and benefits Mayor Mamdani has been promising everyone from convenience-store clerks to sewer rats? We might note that Mayor Mamdani's making it easier and easier not to work in New York, so why would anyone step up to staff this stupidity?

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Look, some of us are old enough to know how ideas like this pan out. We've seen this show before, and it ends in everyone wearing the same baggy, dull, ill-fitting clothing, standing in line for 19 hours for the weekly potato ration, and exclaiming in delight at the news that the chocolate ration has been increased from 12 grams to 10 grams. If Mayor Mamdani, the commies that work for him, and the commie council members really wanted to provide New Yorkers with an ample supply of great foodstuffs, the best thing they could do would be to let the free market handle this; tamp down on some of the regulations and taxes, and let free enterprise once more flourish.

But we all know that's not going to happen.

[Editor's Note: This article was edited for clarity post-publication.]

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