http://www.philly.com/philly/news/83_ch … ounty.html

The rubber chicken of today is the foulest of the fowl but it's hardly our only livestock problem. I swore off meat entirely a few years ago but jesus that gets boring after a while. Plus side, my last roll of toilet paper lasted 2 months.

Chicken Little was right. When the fuck will we ever wake up in this country?

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

Fish is outrageously expensive in my seaside fishing town, have to road trip to New Beige to find anything remotely affordable.

I spent 10 minutes laughing at this. New Bedford, the nation's largest seafood processer, has only Kyler's, its last remaining retailer unless you know how to haggle on the docks and most of that catch is sold before it reaches port. Planning a clam boil for 50, that's a different story.

The bustling island formerly known as Sherburne, with its billion in annual residential real estate transactions, has ONE food market boasting a selection that'd shame a corner bodega, though how Stop & Shop can compete for labor where teeshirt shop clerking commands $40 an hour is unfathomable.

You will live to see that place implode and deserted, J_R, at least until the next doomed mick washes ashore on Tuckernuck Shoal.

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There are actually 2 supermarkets on island, the other is locally owned by the farm and does a banner business in absurdley priced produce and products for the petty bourgeoisie. The billlionares need no markets, private provisioners fill their larders daily by flying in pallets from Boston and NYC. There are 5 fish stores still all locally owned by former fisher families. But prices are too high across the counter. For both farm and fish the locals know where to find the small back field farmer and how to buy illegally off the town dock.

I can not see the place deserted, but it will be scrubbed of its soul leaving just the polished shell. Beineke and Moody's creation has come to its fruition. And they and their spawn's generation have become idle rich from it. Yes in any recession the place shutters the subdividing, the irish and other ethnic guest construction workers must leave for a few years, as the neuvo wall street money retracts, but the real money stays. These billionares need someplace to go, and like Manhatten they have to buy something. They will import all the authenticity they need. Wendy Schmidt's cultural engineering experiment to save small town business is a part of this disturbing trend.

What would actually change this era of new Robber Baron? Folks can identify the problem sure, but most modern  movements seem to be pissing in the wind. I do not come to praise ceaser, I wonder if he could be sunk beneath the ground.