The Grocery Store

Boudreaux presents an excellent metaphor for Government control in describing what if the Government controlled grocery stores as compared to Government controlling schools. The problem is that was the way it was in the old Soviet Union.

I remember the late 70s in Moscow, February, 20 below in F, the dry crunch of snow, the limited lights, the empty streets, the smell of kerosene and Borstch coming from the compounds of apartments hidden behind the carriage entry ways, and of course the ever present KGB. The Magazin, the stores, with no signs, each carefully set at basement level, each assigned in a well planned manner to distributed the planned foods to the workers. Vodka always cheap, food always rather poor if you were truly just a worker.

I believe Boudreaux needs to see the reality of this view, for it is much worse than what he could imagine, it is like many NYC public schools!