The most mean-spirited (and revealing) right-wing column you will read this week

[Gman]

4. The idea about purchasing staples only at a certain store is not a bad idea

And it's a good idea to place them on bus lines in areas with abandoned grocery stores. It would provide jobs in depressed urban areas. Instead of the government running it, the store function should be contracted out too. IIRC, something similar to this was done during the Depression. There is a side issue on this. If food prices were significantly cheaper, which they would be because there is no branding of the products, the stores would also be frequented heavily by everyone else not receiving assistance but wanting or needing cheap food. Of course this would tend to defeat this jerk's intent of shaming people. But when it comes to eating to survive, there is no shame. Elderly Social Security dollars are stretched too. And for this reason, the idea would never fly. There would be too much competition with conventional grocery stores and big money would never allow it to happen. But I like the idea.

The rest of the article is hateful shit. But even a broken clock is right twice a day.