The Left – Keeping Government Out Of Our Lives?
I thought that the political left is against the government interfering in our lives. Oh, I get it, the government of the right should not interfere with our lives.
Recently, the City of Chicago attempted to keep Wal-Mart out of the City. That was until the people spoke and the Council learned just how much their neighbors would be making. Its my money, I will spend it where and how I see fit.
Today, NYC believes that it is their job to make sure that we all eat the way they see fit. Hey, its my body leave me alone.
Then we have an LA Times editorial – City Hall’s job killers. The City Council may be “politically correct†but are they stepping beyond their job description just a bit? If the Times says so then they are miles out of bounds.
Los Angeles is among the least business-friendly cities in the county, which is one reason its job base is steadily shrinking even as its population rises. High business taxes get some of the blame, but what tends to attract the most ire from business leaders are the continual experiments in social engineering by a council in thrall to labor interests.
In December, the council passed a legally dubious ordinance targeting grocery stores bigger than 15,000 square feet, ordering them to keep existing employees for at least 90 days after a change in ownership. What exactly did this accomplish? Mainly, it discouraged big grocery stores from opening in L.A. — at least those that weren’t already discouraged by an earlier city ordinance forcing big-box retailers to endure an extra level of scrutiny in the permitting process.
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Now the council is moving on to another union-decreed villain du jour. A proposal would extend the city’s living-wage ordinance — which was intended to apply only to businesses that contract with the city — to roughly a dozen unlucky LAX-adjacent hotels.
A complete bunch of knuckleheads. Yep, this is the first step in the incremental “city-ization†of business. That is where the City takes over how business operates via local law. We find such things in Russia and South America but this really isn’t the American way.
I ask the simple question, how can you be of the party demanding civil liberties and also be of the party demanding control of what you eat, where you spend your money, and how you run your business? Ah yes, I get it, this is about what the left believes is the right thing for the “communityâ€. Bull!!!
