The government may not have *forced* them to build a Publix, but it sure didn't get in their way. There are plenty of ways to skin a cat.
The problem up here in CT is that there are already tons of stakeholders with their hands in various cookie jars. They use government as a weapon to keep competition out of their jar. I'm not making thi…
The government may not have *forced* them to build a Publix, but it sure didn't get in their way. There are plenty of ways to skin a cat.
The problem up here in CT is that there are already tons of stakeholders with their hands in various cookie jars. They use government as a weapon to keep competition out of their jar. I'm not making this shit up; municipal corruption practically happens out in the open -- our PD, for instance, rakes in humanly impossible amounts of "overtime" from private contractors under a city mandate for all roadwork to have an officer "directing traffic", which usually just means "playing cellphone games while they sit in a city squad car".
Just because this doesn't sound familiar to you or is unrecognizable doesn't mean it isn't happening.
The government may not have *forced* them to build a Publix, but it sure didn't get in their way. There are plenty of ways to skin a cat.
The problem up here in CT is that there are already tons of stakeholders with their hands in various cookie jars. They use government as a weapon to keep competition out of their jar. I'm not making this shit up; municipal corruption practically happens out in the open -- our PD, for instance, rakes in humanly impossible amounts of "overtime" from private contractors under a city mandate for all roadwork to have an officer "directing traffic", which usually just means "playing cellphone games while they sit in a city squad car".
Just because this doesn't sound familiar to you or is unrecognizable doesn't mean it isn't happening.