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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Wants to
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Posted By: mc squared, 9/15/2023 2:01:25 PM

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) is looking into opening taxpayer-funded, city-owned grocery stores in areas in which businesses have pulled out due to rampant crime. Johnson announced a partnership with the Economic Security Project to look into the possibility of opening city-owned grocery stores. The first step in the partnership will be to perform a feasibility study, but the city did not provide a timeline, the Chicago Tribune reported. Johnson claimed his administration is “committed to advancing innovative, whole-of-government approaches to address these inequities.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: wilarrbie 9/15/2023 2:04:13 PM (No. 1556723)
When people steal food instead of paying with free food stamps.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: stablemoney 9/15/2023 2:05:26 PM (No. 1556725)
I thought the city already had free food banks.
20 people like this.

Reply 3 - Posted by: BirdsNest 9/15/2023 2:07:38 PM (No. 1556727)
Does he think the same people WON'T steal from a city owned store??? You can't make this shite up.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 9/15/2023 2:08:46 PM (No. 1556729)
Just like shopping in the Soviet Union. You don't mind long lines and random bare shelves, do you?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Omen55 9/15/2023 2:10:41 PM (No. 1556731)
You can see he's never run a business.
19 people like this.

Reply 6 - Posted by: 68BattleofBealeVet 9/15/2023 2:15:19 PM (No. 1556735)
What could possibly go wrong.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Safari Man 9/15/2023 2:21:12 PM (No. 1556741)
When all you have is a hammer and sickle, everything looks like a nail.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: IdSpud 9/15/2023 2:22:15 PM (No. 1556742)
Great. Government owned stores with no incentive to make a profit. Just like in good old mother Russia. As #6 said. What could possibly go wrong?
22 people like this.

Reply 9 - Posted by: Ronaldus Magnus 9/15/2023 2:27:20 PM (No. 1556746)
So, one of the few retail models that can function in a democRAT rat run hell hole is no customers allowed in the store. The store has window(s) where the customer requests items, the store clerks gather up the items and bring them up to the window. It would just be delicious if the government used this model. PS.... Beware of the government cheese.
6 people like this.

Reply 10 - Posted by: Califedup 9/15/2023 2:30:38 PM (No. 1556752)
Is it just me that thinks that communist death democrat black mayors are the absolute worst at running their cities and the best at ruining their cities? Prove me wrong or am I just a racist.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 9/15/2023 2:37:12 PM (No. 1556757)
Or you could arrest and jail the few hundred that are doing 99% of the crime and presto, problem solved.
12 people like this.

Reply 12 - Posted by: JGalt 9/15/2023 2:37:51 PM (No. 1556759)
Here is an "out of the box" solution to the problem: Enforce the Law!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: KTWO 9/15/2023 2:39:25 PM (No. 1556760)
Detail Plan: First you make sure your buddies get a few million $ to conduct a study. Then others get more $ to review it. Then real soon after that............
9 people like this.

Reply 14 - Posted by: Marzon 9/15/2023 2:57:37 PM (No. 1556773)
That's one way to force Socialism: drive out all the businesses and then leave government as the sole remaining source for all needs. Bread lines here we come.
14 people like this.

Reply 15 - Posted by: TexaTucky 9/15/2023 3:00:10 PM (No. 1556775)
Gonna hafta steal that, #7.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: DVC 9/15/2023 3:22:21 PM (No. 1556784)
More ways to siphon off government funds into their personal bank accounts. This is guaranteed to be 'pre-failed" and lose millions if not billions of public funds.....just "mysteriously disappeared". The future news stories can be already written. We KNOW how this will turn out.
5 people like this.

Reply 17 - Posted by: DougTN 9/15/2023 3:30:12 PM (No. 1556789)
Good grief. I guess hungry voters are easier to please.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 9/15/2023 3:32:20 PM (No. 1556791)
Grab your babushka and your net bag and stand in line.
4 people like this.

Reply 19 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 9/15/2023 3:43:20 PM (No. 1556799)
Velcom to our GUM, says Brandon. Grocery soviet style. Will you allow looters and stealing, Brandon?
2 people like this.

Reply 20 - Posted by: PostAway 9/15/2023 4:13:49 PM (No. 1556816)
Bill de Blasio (NYC), Rahm Emmanuel (Chicago), Jacob Frey (Mpls) Jenny Durkan (Seattle), Ted Wheeler (Portland), Ed Lee (S.F.), Eric Garcetti (L.A.), etc. etc., aren’t black but along with other failed mayors, many of whom are black, they must have something in common. What could it be? I sit with an elbow bent atop a table, chin resting on my fist as I look skyward, deeply in thought. What is it, I wonder, that all these people, black, white and Asian, have in common? There MUST be something!
3 people like this.

Reply 21 - Posted by: Starboard_side 9/15/2023 4:31:13 PM (No. 1556826)
Can't wait to see how this works out for them.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: smokincol 9/15/2023 4:34:09 PM (No. 1556829)
ah, the commie mayor of Chitown is modeling his city in the Soviet style of domestication and if there is anyone living in Chitown who lived through that in the Soviet Union, I'm sure they'll be pleased to see some old ways of life emerging in a so-called "free" Chicago
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Reply 23 - Posted by: LTCTed 9/15/2023 4:48:40 PM (No. 1556837)
Their product consultant: Bernie Sanders. One brand of high-proof beer in liter bags. One brand of corn chips. One brand of heat and eat chau myan . . . The product list almost writes itself.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: wilarrbie 9/15/2023 6:36:59 PM (No. 1556873)
#7 - if that's not a t-shirt, it should be.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 9/15/2023 7:12:11 PM (No. 1556907)
Here comes the government to save the day! State run is all the rage. It works in China and Russia! It can work here! Business is here to serve, not make a profit. How enlightened!
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Reply 26 - Posted by: watashiyo 9/15/2023 8:53:42 PM (No. 1556946)
It's common knowledge from 100 years ago, that the government is not capable of managing a profitable business. Why? Most never had a real job, and they're only good at collecting and losing what they've collected.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: anniebc 9/15/2023 10:44:16 PM (No. 1557031)
Bold communist move right there. Chase out legitimate business so tyrannical government goons can swoop in, no competition necessary or allowed.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: JimBob 9/16/2023 12:36:29 AM (No. 1557099)
Will these stores honor the extremely popular 'Five Finger Discount'?
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Reply 29 - Posted by: mifla 9/16/2023 6:29:26 AM (No. 1557177)
Typically liberal. Propose a government solution to a problem created by government. What I would give to own a u-haul dealership in Chicago.
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Reply 30 - Posted by: doctorfixit 9/16/2023 11:57:25 PM (No. 1557743)
Nothing on the shelves except Uncle Brandon's Perverted Rice.
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