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It wasn’t a Mamdani Mart, but it was a good indication of what the socialist grocery stores that Comrade Mayor promised to bestow upon New York City will be like. Last week, the cryptocurrency outfit Polymarket opened, for five days only, what it billed as “New York’s First Free Grocery Store.” And so the triumph of socialism was on full display in the Big Apple, right? Well, socialism certainly was, but “triumph” wasn’t exactly the word.
Fox News reported Thursday that “in a busy stretch of restaurants and boutiques in the West Village, hundreds of New Yorkers queued up outside a pop-up shop offering free groceries.”
That’s right: the first glory of socialism that New York’s First Free Grocery Store brought to Gotham was long lines. As one of the last sclerotic rulers of the declining Soviet Union, Konstantin U. Chernenko told the Politburo in 1985: “Comrades, it is not unusual for one type of merchandise or another to disappear from shop counters, goods that are often the easiest to make and the most needed on a daily basis.”
Hence the long lines, which became so much a feature of ordinary life in the workers’ paradise that the New York Times observed: “So common and pervasive are the lines that they have evolved their own etiquette, even their own slang. Shoppers in a busy store can have their place held in one line while they stand in another. Women with small children pass freely to the front. Other privileged people, ranging from disabled war veterans to recipients of the title ‘Hero of Socialist Labor,’ are also allowed to go to the head of the line. Goods, in this world, are ‘handed out,’ not sold, as if to underline that the issue is not one of cost or choice, but simply one of finding the stuff.”
Chernenko also asked the Politburo: “Is there any explanation other than gross blunders for the obvious lack of good-quality footwear, especially children’s shoes?”
Why, sure, Konstantin. One primary explanation is that socialism, by confiscating the worker’s wealth and making it useless for him to try to work harder to get ahead, removes all incentive to do anything more than the minimum that will keep him out of the gulag. A shoemaker in a capitalist society can get rich by providing cheap and comfortable shoes for the masses. In a socialist society, the shoes are even cheaper: they’re free. But there is no reason for the worker to ensure their supply, as there is no reward for him in doing so. And so in the land where shoes are free, going shoeless becomes a fact of life.
And so in New York’s First Free Grocery Store, the demand far outstripped the supply, and the lines were Soviet-length. “The scene was underscored,” said Fox, “by the city’s cost of living woes and anxiety over who would get a yellow ticket granting entry to the small shop before it ‘sold out’ of goods.” Once New York becomes a fully socialist society, those yellow tickets will fetch a good price on the black market, and otherwise will be handed out among the powerful and privileged. After all, everyone is equal, but some are indeed more equal than others.
Fox also noted that “shoppers characterized The Polymarket — which was separate from Mamdani-led efforts to unveil city-owned, subsidized grocery stores in each of the five New York City boroughs — as a learning moment for the mayor as residents cited concerns with security, running out of food and people cutting lines.” That’s why socialist societies need secret police, so that the populace is too scared to cut in line no matter how anxious they are that the market will run out of food.
New York’s First Free Grocery Store hit the wall of reality quite early in the day. One woman recounted: “I literally got here at 9:00 … and basically what they said is that they ran out of tickets.” A man said: “They told me that they ran out of tickets. I couldn’t get no more food.… I couldn’t get access to the store.” A beleaguered security guard shouted just after 9 a.m.: “Let’s go people, let’s go. Go home. Do not linger, do not look, do not watch. Please go home.” But ultimately, they will not. Aside from the gulags, the line is the most distinguishing feature of socialist life.
If Mamdani holds true to his promise and opens his low-cost grocery stores, we will see all this again, and likely with greater intensity and hotter tempers. Socialism is beautiful, comrade!
I’m surprised there was not chaos and carnage both in the store and outside.
That’ll change as the weather gets warmer…. The Gimme Dats are not going to be turned away without an ensuing riot.
Hopefully Sandy OcaTez, Tubby Nadler, the Rearend Al,UpChuck Schumer, Hakeem the Dream and the Harpies from The View will be making guest appearances in the future as well.
Yeppers, and I notice the “free market” ran out of freebies in only a few hours. ALL food banks do much better than that, and they do it without the mayhem that Mudbaby’s Fantasy Stores would cause.
Wall off NYC. John Carpenter had the right idea.
Too true. Too true.
Like Orwell, John Carpenter was prescient. One of the most memorable lines in cinema history == [to Snake Blissman] — “I thought you was dead.”
The difference between food banks and the free grocery store is that people see the former as charities, which they are, but see the latter as an entitlement. So it takes humility to go to the food banks but not to the free store. This, of course, is why private charities are more effective than the public dole.
The difference here is Polymart was a private venture. It wasn’t using tax dollars. Quite different from a public run grocery store.
The lines were long. Some people I heard waited for hours only to find a lot of the food ran out. People also cut the line, and there was scarce or no security. No doubt if public run grocery stores pop up you’ll see the same issues and worse.
There are plenty of places here in San Jose that give out free food, much of it of high quality. There’s even a Salvation Army right around the corner from my apartment. When I first moved here I would go because I didn’t even have to get out of my car to get the freebies but it didn’t take long to realize I that I didn’t need the food and didn’t want to wait in the line of cars, even though it was a brief wait.
A local charity used to leave food right on the doorsteps of everybody in my building who wanted it and I did take that. Why not? No muss, no fuss. The program was killed by the scamdemic lockdown of Alzheimer Joe’s handlers, thoughg. Four years of sabotage and incompetence could kill anything. Too bad. The program still exists but I can’t be bothered to drive the four blocks and get out of my car to stand in line.
Thank God nobody in San Jose is as stupid as Moron Mudbaby and his supporters. Those retards would cause Soviet style bread lines throughout NYC if they had their way. And I enjoy having 22 pairs of nice shoes and three pairs of leather sandals to choose from. And based on the old photos and films, it looked like the Soviet and Chinese wretches got their crappy clothes from crappy sweat shops. That would be a nightmare for a metrosexual like me. I’d rather pay to look great than look like a peasant for free. And who wants to do laundry when I can just change clothes?
So, you decided to take advantage of others’ generosity instead of earning your own keep. Class act!
Are you retarded on top of being illiterate?
I see we have an illiterate and retarded troll here. Grocery stores donate food that they would otherwise have to throw away to food banks. So does Starbucks with it’s pastries, which is probably the only worthwhile thing that Black Lies Murder and Dirtbagocat party supporter does.
I don’t depend on charity for my rent, insurance, cars, big screen TV, 200 + shirts, 22 pairs of shoes, books, laptops, food, cleaning products, toiletries, recreation or anything else. Can you say the same or do you live with your Karen mommy?
The only food I got for free years ago would’ve been thrown away if people like me didn’t accept it. Most of it was and still is thrown away anyway.
And yet you doubtlessly approve of lazy, violent parasites getting everything for free in shitholes like NYC, Atlanta, St Louis, Oakland, the Twin Cities and the rest of the big blue strongholds, so long as they support the D-Bags and their anti-American party of evil.
Go drink some prophet pretender approved fermented camel urine with Al Durrrr-ya. I’m sure your local jihad terrorist headquarters/mosgue gives out steaming cups for free along with weapons, courtesy of the US government and its unwilling taxpayers.
Your comments sound more like an excuse than a response.
You paid for your shoes with money that you didn’t spend on groceries.
You stated that you are too lazy to get out of your car for free food so I take it that you are too lazy to help deed those whoa re actually in need.
Feel free to call me al the names you want you duplicitous freeloader.
The only Free food I get is from every other month with a Even Number plus a Thanksgiving Food Basket and Free Sosa Drinks and Hot Cocoa in the cold weather otherwise I do my monthly shopping on the first of every month
There’s something to be said for shopping in clean and well maintained supermarkets with huge selections of items. Even the muzak they play is good nowadays, mostly rock and soul from the seventies.
A “permanent supportive housing” service in my apartment building usually gives out food baskets for every holiday and even fake holidays, like Chinese New Year and black history month but this year all it’s gaven out so far is a big load of bupkus. It gives out food during social events every week but I can’t be bothered to attend those, not even to grab “to-go” plates and leave. Too many single skanks on the prowl at those events.
I do my monthly Grocery shopping at Walmart and my everyday shopping at two local stores
Me too, by coincidence. I’ve hated Wallmart ever since it cancelled Mike Lindell but it does have good prices in its supermarket and the best at its pharmacy. I’m not an idiot so I don’t cut off my nose to spite my face by not shopping there. I do prefer the Mexican supermarket 3 blocks from my apt and Safeway, though.
The Walmart near me has all types of products locked up behind plastic doors though, because the homeless derelicts will rob them blind otherwise. Some chicks who work there say the bums just walk out the door with stuff, even expensive items like tents and sleeping bags which can’t be locked up.
I witnessed this in Moscow in 1978. Mankind has learned nothing.
Sure it has. It has learned that the wrong people were doing it the last hundred times but this time it will really work. 😂😂😂
Yeah, it’s because it had been done incorrectly all those other times. When done correctly it will surely work, just you watch!
Good sarcasm,and it genuinely describes those idiots on the left.
The smug bitch Obama declared his glory to all the unwashed when he was 1st elected, saying . . .
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!”
. . . indicating that the proper brain-trust had finally arrived to usher in what previous attempts had failed to enact.
(An added bonus, was that a messianic aura emanated forth from his greatness and checked the rising sea levels.)
Lovers of socialism never have to endure it. The Nomenkatura are above it all, even Iron Felix had a Rolls.
“Iron Felix.” I notice all the top commies had misplaced tough guy or intellectual nicknames even though all of them were pussies and “intellectual” is a euphemism for people who believe extremely stupid notions should be forced on society.
Lenin was an evil genius, though. “One man with a gun can control a hundred without them,” “a lie told often enough becomes the truth,” and so on. He came up with lots of evil aphorisms that were all subversive and all successfully inflicted on Soviet society.
And yes, you’re right of course. No self proclaimed commies like Bernout Sandernista and self proclaimed socialists like Moron Mudbaby really want complete government ownership or control. They’re elitist frauds. And all the retards who think socialism means free stuff and the D-Bags should rule America think they’ll end up in the nomenklatura when they’d actually be proles flipping burgers and cleaning up after the actual ruling elites/effetes..
Hey….weah ma free food an stuff be?
Free shoes = waiting in line for no shoes. Free food = standing in line for no food. Free transportation = we will have to wait and see but it will probably have something to do with waiting in a line and no bus.
Didn’t San Fran have a free store at Haight Ashbury? Maybe 1960’s.
Watch the movie Moscow on the Hudson. Williams’ reaction to an American grocery store is priceless.
San Fransicko had a few “free” stores not too long long ago and they all failed miserably, of course. They had massive theft problems too. I guess the gimme-dats didn’t like the quotas on the free stuff.
If only there was an entire last century of world history full of millions of dead bodies that could have warned us something like this might happen.
Watched a video of the “free” food event on Fox. Everything was tightly controlled. One “free” blue Polymarket shopping bag per person handed out by blue aproned employees, Polymarket employees controlled what went in the bag, literally, by placing items in the bag for the “customer.” Of course, the video showed only the first few minutes when scantily stocked shelves still had food. The biggest joke perhaps were the free Valentines’ Day blue and white fresh Polymarket flower bouquets.
Free? So all that stuff just was THERE? No one had to make the bread, slice it, bag it, or PAY for the flour, butter, eggs, and other ingredients? All those canned goods just MATERIALIZED? Someone PAID for the “FREE” stuff thrown out there! We grew up poor – had few clothes – basic foods – VERY few sodas – even FEWER candy bars – UNLESS we worked to get them ourselves! PARASITES like free crap – we never did and honestly were embarrassed to accept “handouts”! The DEMOcrats have convinced so many CHILDREN that they are not supposed to WORK and fend for themselves! But, thank goodness NYC has BRIDGES that can be guarded to keep those leftist voting idiots confined once all the FREE CRAP is gone. Oh, and they’ll get to experience that whole “F Police” thing for real – soon there will be even MORE crime and filth in NYC – they’re going to get what they voted for – GOOD and HARD!!
I’ve been living in a capitalist republic for over 7 decades. It works quite well. Capitalism is why the USA is able to be the land of invention, innovation, technology and military to defeat tyrants and now with President Trump’s Board of Peace creating a tangible peace for nations to lay down their weapons and enjoin their nation in this 21st century technology, innovation, medicine and global capitalist commerce for their nation. These commie nations are looking weaker and stupider and their citizens want in.
The new mayor of NYC is a failure coming out the gate. Will the punk NYC mayor wake up and realize his machinations are a failure and change course and dissociate himself with the machine that got him elected and are depending on the punk NYC mayor to destroy NYC? That could cost him his life. Whichever way it goes for the new punk NYC mayor, it’s karma of his own making.
BTW, Times Square is now blasting that satanic shrill nails on chalkboard myzzlym call to prayer.
It’s totally satanic and the NYC voters have the karma of their mindsets.
Tourism in NYC is going to suffer.
Since the idiots on the Supreme Court ruled against President Trump’s ability to impose tariffs, American farmers will not receiving the $122,000 farm bailout our president generously planned to give them. So where’s all the free food supposed to be coming from now???? The Supreme Court must go!!
I wish those who recognize the failure of socialism were as quick to recognize the stupidity of Trump’s tariffs. They make us poorer by preventing us from buying where it is cheapest. Adam Smith shot down the silliness of the “balance of trade” 250 years ago in the Wealth of Nations.
We’ve had a trade deficit for 50 years. We didn’t get poorer but instead much richer during that time.
Trump wants foreign investment, i.e. a continued capital account surplus. The only way those foreigners can get the U.S. dollars they need is to run a trade surplus. That Trump outright lies about who pays for the tariffs is telling.
I have a trade deficit with every business I patronize. I’m much better off as a result.
Unfortunately, this demonstrates Democrats do not have a monopoly on economic illiteracy.
if 38 Trillion of borrowed money is making us wealthy, why dont you go and borrow a couple cool million. You will super wealthy too!!
A trade deficit is not “borrowed money.” Learn some economics.
Al Qaeda Buttdingus,
what does the ever increasing $38 trillion debt of borrowed money the federal government is wallowing in have to do with the trade deficit that President Trump has been radically decreasing? He just raised the automatic 10% foreign tariff to 15% in response to the Supreme Court’s illegal ruling that a single one of Trump’s tariff policies is based on a law that contradicts it. Tariffs aren’t taxes on foreign goods, they’re duties. That means the law the Supreme Court based its usurpation of the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government doesn’t doesn’t support its ruling, by the way.
Actually, you D-Bags DO have a monopoly on economic illiteracy. President trump’s tariffs enriched America’s coffers. Tariffs work, which is why every foreign shithole on the p-lanet used to stick America with them before Trump came back.
Everything you wrote are demonstrable lies, and whopper lies at that. You obviously hate America but President Trump doesn’t.
Another lame retort from the guy who thinks junior-high level name-calling constitutes intelligent insights.
Dummy, I voted for Trump.
C’mon Jeff! What do econometric studies tell us about who actually pays the tariffs? We’ll wait.
I’m not surprised you refuse to grasp the predictable, logical , demonstrable consequences of tariffs. Hmm, Jeff, tell readers who pays the gas tax that gasoline sellers pass on to government. Do you think businesses attempt to pass increased costs on to consumers?
I’ve never been taken to court for anything, no less support payments. How about you? Maybe Trump can intervene to help you out.
Commence with the evasive name-calling.
Yeah, you voted for Trump and now all you do is whine and moan about him.
I always get kick out of the disgruntled who claim to have voted for Trump and are miserable. Maybe you should run for office so you can “fix” everything
He couldn’t “fix” a burned out light bulb. As a natural born neuter, he doesn’t even have to “fix” himself.
“C’mon Jeff! What do econometric studies tell us about who actually pays the tariffs? We’ll wait.”
What, the same studies that predicted catastrophe rather than the booming success President Trump’s tariffs have produced? Prices continue to go down, including on total imports. A few bottles of French wine increased in price? Buy superior California wines like the rest of us do.
Gas prices are WAY down, retard. No more $8 bucks a gallon. Even CA is down to $3 and most of the rest of the country is down to $2 or less.
Deadbeat ex wives deserve only the steam off their ex husband’s shit, and nothing more. Figures you stick up for parasites like foreign countries and domestic Karens.
Look at the letter to the editor appearing in today’s Wall Street Journal.. It is by Economics Professor Don Boudreaux (George Mason University) and is titled “America’s Trade Deficit is a Sign of Strength.”
As America’s real GDP per capita has grown substantially since 2009, the EU, which has a trade surplus with the U.S. since then, has seen incredibly little real growth in real GDP per capita.
The last line of the letter is: “Mr. Trump’s obsession with putting an end to U.S. trade deficits will make America repel global investors.
Thanks, I’ll pass.
“Excellent refutation of the points made” said no one ever.
C’mon, Intrepid, make me look silly by explaining how foreigners can invest in the U.S. as Trump wants, and as they have already been doing, for the past 50 years without running trade surpluses, i.e. capital account deficits.
Why did Trump have to give so much of our money to U.S. farmers after he imposed the tariffs?
Trump said he’d end the war on day one. We are officially in the middle of the longest day ever recorded.
Yes, reading an article in a far left rag written by a Marx type economist isn’t high on my list of things to do either. But then Aisha I’msix centimeters probably recommends sexual mutilation surgery on a regular basis, too. Not exactly a role model or source of good information.
“C’mon, Intrepid, make me look silly by explaining how foreigners can invest in the U.S. as Trump wants, and as they have (NOT been doing) for the past 50 years without running trade surpluses, i.e. capital account deficits.”
The way they’re investing at record high levels now with record low surpluses, i.e. taking it up the ass.
“Why did Trump have to give so much of our money to U.S. farmers after he imposed the tariffs?” Because farmers and tariffs on foreign scum both benefit America.
“Trump said he’d end the war on day one. We are officially in the middle of the longest day ever recorded.” What war? The trade war predicted by liars that doesn’t exist?
History supports your position. The result of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 was a world-wide Great Depression. Smoot-Hawley was passed for the same reason as Trump’s tariffs – to force the return of manufacturing to the United States. All it actually did was create global chaos and poverty.
It also encouraged the rise of National Socialism in Germany, and we all know how that went.
I don’t have to make you look silly. You do that just fine all by yourself each time you burble some anti-American anti-Trump B.S.
You sound like that idiot Monmouth University associate professor who used to hang here and ask stupid questions about Smoot Hawley that no one remotely cared about, in a lame effort to look remotely intelligent. I don’t read lib newspapers that claim to be conservative when they aren’t.
Ooooh! The Dirtbagocrat Journal published an article by a far left perfesser who claims weakness is strength. What’s next, “War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, and Ignorance Is Strength?” If you can’t do, teach/indoctrinate.
America’s GDP plummeted under Brokeback Hasbeen Obama and reached the Ninth Pit of Hell under Alzheimer Joke Beijing Bidumb’s handlers. And citing GDP “per capita” is a weak-ass lefty trick to divide wealth between people with no incomes, the working poor, the dwindling middle class they hate and the uber wealthy to come up with highly inflated and completely phony averages even when an honest per capita figure is used, which lefty liars never do. It only works on stupid people, and lefty D-Bags dominate the ranks of the stupid..
GDP has exploded under President Trump’s tariffs and other economic policies and so has foreign investment. Facts Trump lies, awesome pun intended.
Mandami does, Newsom does, Bass does, Sanders does, Warren does, the socialist in Washington state does; that’s just some of them. All Democrats in political office,
“Free”? Yah what “free” means, I am sure, is “We took tax money from white non-moo slims, and bought some groceries. Now all you “peepa of cuhlah” and moo slims can come get food here without paying for it. And as long as we can continue to steal money from white peepa, this you’ll be able to come get the food without paying for it.
We’re in serious trouble if we have a large sector of Americans who are buying into the free-stuff-for-everybody delusion. Simple common sense should be enough to sway people away from such an absurd pipe dream. But apparently that’s not the case.
Young Americans in particular think socialism means free stuff and not Venezuelan living standards. I’m surprised they can even find a store after being subjected to government “schools.”
Given your demonstrable ignorance of economics, it is obvious you went to one of those schools.
Sez the anti-American retard who thinks foreign tariffs are good and Trump’s haven’t brought hundreds of billions to America.
“Aisha I’m six?” You’re six are mentally, that’s for sure. And I suppose you want foul old islamopithecines to marry six year olds.
Dummy,
The name comes from Mohammed marrying a six-year old Aisha. It’s to mock Islam.
How did it work out in court regarding the support payments?
Dumbass. I mocked you and your stupid screen name.
And how are your glory hole safaris going?
And my deadbeat ex wife doesn’t get a penny from me, you little simp.
Chris, you do realize that every new dollar a rich person earns is a dollar taken out of the pocket of the “working class”. In fact, the only reason we have poor people is because Elon Musk and his billionaire buddies are hoarding the money rightly belonging to the down and out. One can only imagine how much better off all of us would be if that money was re-distributed to its rightful owners. Then “free stuff” for everybody would cease to be a delusion and life, as intended, would be back on its true course. 🙁
Are you for real? Or is this some kind of Mad Magazine satire? Communism has never been, nor will it ever be a workable system. Maybe in your fantasy world it works. It does have genuine appeal. That’s probably why some people are eager to fall for it.
“Woketards of the world unite!”
Picture one of our supermarkets only the price of everything is $0. Lobster, crab legs, and the finer cuts of steaks run out first. Then secondary steaks. Then roasts. Etc. Similar with fruits and vegetables. Eventually, you are left with a few wormy apples, bruised potatoes, etc. Alternately, it can be treated like food stamps. Everyone gets x numbers of food stamps. Prime Rib uses 10 stamps. Hamburger 1. This is essentially the same as what we have now with EBT/SNAP cards… and all the fraud associated with that. Some will sell their new stamps for alcohol or drug money. Others will just reallocate money they were spending on food to whatever. Money is fungible. The difference is government run “grocery stores” vs private. Lost is the quality that comes from “for profit.”
The only way I can see it working is as a food kitchen with average to low priced everything and everything is prepacked in “shopping” bags and boxes. One person comes in, they get one bag of assorted food. Mostly canned food but with some perishable food like yesterday’s fruits, vegetables, and bread donated by the grocery stores. Nothing fancy, but a person can live on it. We already have food kitchens all over the place. The small town near me (about 5K people) has two. Most of the people that go to it are the poor. People that can afford the food prefer the quality and choice of regular grocery stores.
Exactly what is the benefit to using AI graphics? It only serves to cause suspicion that there may be AI contained in the story.
AI – Ain’t Interested.
Only the ignorant and naive could believe this could work and the King Commie is already threatening to raise the tax on property 10% and tax the rich to pay for this fiasco. Is Mamdani and his well connected friends going to wait on huge lines to get the free garbage that the peasants will get? That will happen when hell freezes over.
When”s the free buses and day care coming, I can hardly wait.
Is he really that stupid – or just evil?
Thomas Sowell has a very excellent book oj this sor o thing.. Basic Economics. His section on communism is on the mark, reading much like this account today, Sowell could well have written about today’s events in NYC. More to come as sure as the sun will rise in the east on the morrow.
remember, Thomas Sowell was born and raised in “the projects” by a single unwed mother. He did NOT persue that course, breaking out and becoming a true national treasure. .
You just hit the nail on it’s proverbial head.
In 1951, I spent my 2nd grade as G.I. dependent in Offenbach, Germany, a suburb of Frankfurt. I used ride to school in the morning in a VW to a G.I. school in Frankfurt proper. Once I crossed the Main River, i saw the result of almost five years of war. People were still searching the rubble for stuff.
Then, in the spring vacation, my dad took us south on vacation to Oberammergau, stopping along the way in the countryside near Munich. In that spring breeze, with the car windows rolled down, I smelled the odors the concentration camps still gave off. Dad said: “Remember that smell for the rest of your life.” That smell is what Mamdani is giving off in New York. He would be a dictator, if he could. The only answer to someone like Mamdani is the sword.
Great article, it describes pretty acurately life in Russia during late Soviet era. But one fact is not 100% correct. Soviet people didn’t say that some merchandise was “sold” or “handed out”, they called it “throw away”. And trust me: shows, closes etc. that people were eager to have staying in the ques, were literally thrown away in European countries o USA. they have garbage quality
There was an old Soviet Union joke about the elderly man walking along the river next to the Kremlin wall and was overcome, leaned against the wall, and fell asleep. When he woke up, there was a long queue behind him. A Pravda reported asked him why he remained standing there, since there was no shop and nothing to obtain. His answer: “What, and give up my place in line?”
In this life, even death and taxes aren’t free. Everything costs somebody something. So who ultimately pays for all this “free” stuff they’re giving away? Let me guess: “Uncle Sugar” (aka, uncle Sap or Sam, aka, US tax payers.) I would be deceiving myself to think that the rich (liberals) are footing the bill out of the goodness of their own hearts.
I have a question: where and when was giving away free sh*t and charging the expense to the taxpayers ever on the ballot–anywhere? It wasn’t on any ballot that I ever saw. Somehow someway I sense that there’s a grift underlying all this.
Or perhaps it’s one of those situations where we the tax payers are getting hoodwinked; bamboozled; scammed; flimflammed and played for chumps and suckers without knowing it? Inquiring minds want to know..
Meh… Perhaps I’m over-thinking this and asking for too much. Curses!!
Is any thing free? There may be no exchange of any item for another, but “time” is the central measurement of creating goods or services. When I receive a favor or someone works to help me they are using the most expensive item they possess, their time, a portion of their life. Is anything free?
It seems that Communism is about taking lives.
The short answer is no. Not even death is free. Death costs the living something.
Actually, shoes under Soviet socialism were not free. They were expensive, and the ones produced by the Soviet factories were ugly and of low quality. The imported ones were hard to find and cost an arm and a leg. Once, say, a woman working in an office discovered that some decent imported shoes or boots were in a local shoe store (which is what it was usually called, “Shoes”; and the presence of those shoes was called not “being sold”, but выбросили, [they] “threw out”), the whole office would drop whatever they were doing and run to that store to stand in line hope that the shoes would still be available when it’s their turn.