nationalize all grocery stores ?

[votingupstart]

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/food-government-new-2425213-groceries-commissaries?referrer=facebook

One of the great scandals of our age is the fact that America spends more on food than any other nation. Many political leaders are now calling for urgent reform to bring spending on food under control. While food spending is rapidly increasing and many Americans are overweight, some do not have enough to eat.

Despite this high spending, the United Nations reports that, according to surveys they sent to government officials around the world, the quality of U.S. food is ranked very low. Officials in France report that their food is the best in the world. More insulting is the higher ranking that British experts give their food. ........

(skiped to last paragraph to avoid overposting )

Across the political spectrum, there is a developing consensus that the only appropriate response to the fact that some consumers cannot afford groceries is to impose a single government-controlled food system on all citizens. All agree that this is sure to provide the same consistently high performance as public education.

Reportedly, the clincher for those proposing grocery nationalization was stated recently by the White House: "The great thing about these proposals is that if we can somehow get this to work for groceries, we can apply the same idea to health care."

interesting how the opinion is presented

[livetoride]

1. No thank you

I've been around long enough to know that the Fed is no better at running a business than anyone else. Lets keep private business private, but institute some enforceable regulations about food quality.

-Peter

[Raskolnik]

2. Is this satire? n/t

[rucky]

12. It's awful satire.

[Mythsaje]

3. Somebody thinks they're funny.

It's an anti- single-payer health care parody, and, even in that context, fucking stupid. But even worse is all the nitwits who took it seriously.

[TahitiNut]

5. Consider the audience: Orange County.

:shrug: That's one of the higher concentrations of idiocy in California.

[Orsino]

14. But it ends up supporting the point it was trying to satirize.

I think I like that.

[rurallib]

4. My troll radar is beeping.

[votingupstart]

11. not trying to troll - just thought the article was a little weird nt

[Strong Atheist]

6. Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[TahitiNut]

7. " ... dedicated to an unequivocal moral defense of capitalism and individual rights ..."

This is a spokesman for the astroturf 'organization' Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM) ... nothing but "swift-boaters" for those who profiteer from the suffering and death of others.

http://www.afcm.org/about.html

Mr. Ralston is a proud Ayn-Randian whack job.
:puke:

[tjwash]

8. Fuck the OC register

It's almost as bad as the union tribune.

And that "article" is just a blatent pot shot at single payer health care. We have been getting deluged with that kind of shit here in socal as of late.

[livetoride]

9. regardless of the source..

This is either a spin from the right to create fear of "socialism" or a really horrible idea from the left. Either way, it's a terrible idea..

[Ron Green]

10. Actually, I'd like to see government incentives for real and local food and against

corporate and processed food. If we subsidized farmers' markets to the extent we subsidize Big Corn and Big Soy, we'd be a healthier people.

[Codeine]

13. Troll.

get bent.