re: NYC mayoral hopeful pledges to lower grocery prices by implementing communism

This is the perfect time to let an idiot like this take control of the nations largest city. Let him absolutely collapse the economy, and have Trump in place to let them wallow in the collapse.

Make sure America see exactly what happens when you implement these lunatic policies without any help from the federal government.

California has been bailed out time and time again from their idiotic policies, so let American see first hand how this shite works.

If NYC votes for it, let them wallow in it.

If elected…New York City is fricked! End of the conversation.

I wonder what an actual leader from a communist country would have to say about this idea...

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During a visit to the United States in 1989 he (Boris Yeltsin) became more convinced than ever that Russia had been ruinously damaged by its centralized, state-run economic system, where people stood in long lines to buy the most basic needs of life and more often than not found the shelves bare. He was overwhelmed by what he saw at a Houston supermarket, by the kaleidoscopic variety of meats and vegetables available to ordinary Americans.

Leon Aron, quoting a Yeltsin associate, wrote in his biography, “Yeltsin, A Revolutionary Life”…: “For a long time, on the plane to Miami, he sat motionless, his head in his hands. ‘What have they done to our poor people?’ he said after a long silence.” He added, “On his return to Moscow, Yeltsin would confess the pain he had felt after the Houston excursion: the ‘pain for all of us, for our country so rich, so talented and so exhausted by incessant experiments.’”

He wrote that Mr. Yeltsin added, “I think we have committed a crime against our people by making their standard of living so incomparably lower than that of the Americans.” An aide, Lev Sukhanov was reported to have said that it was at that moment that “the last vestige of Bolshevism collapsed” inside his boss.

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These people either intentionally ignore or refuse to learn from/about

1) Basic human nature and what drives us
2) Basic economic principles
3) History

Also, for the love of freaking God will someone please tell these morons that those small microphones can be clipped to your shirt so you don't have to stand there holding it like a doofus?

Oh he’s correct. That WILL lower the prices. His constituents might not be happy with the lines or the bare shelves, but the prices will be good.

I don’t know about that.

Utah owns all liquor stores and the prices aren’t cheap.

Even the government has to make money on such things or the stores simply fall apart.

And these stupid frickers in NY will elect him

The economic illiteracy or the grift -or both- is astonishing…

Exhibit A of why we need to bring back McCarthyism.

I hope they get what they vote for.

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