If Government Ran a Grocery Store

Virginia Delegate Nick Freitas explains how inefficient and ridiculous public education system is through a hypothetical example of government run grocery stores. Source: Young Americans for Liberty.

Transcript:

Let's imagine the government wanted to help hungry people, alright? And so the government said: We've gotta do this, it's critical. The private sector, the free market is not capable of feeding people. And so what we are going to do is open up 10,000 government grocery stores. And you are going to be assigned a government grocery store based off of your address. And when you show up to the grocery store, you are not actually gonna shop for groceries, a government employee is going to give you a bag of groceries based off of a government approved caloric index for your family. And if there is something in that grocery bag that you don't particularly like, not a big deal, just call up your legislator. We'll go through about a 2 to 4 year process while the Kraft macaroni and cheese and the Oreo lobbyists come to term on whether or not that particular brand of product should be in your grocery bag.

Oh by the way, the government employees working at the grocery store, none of them will be rewarded based off of innovation, none of them will be rewarded based off of how good a job they do, or efficiencies they find. They'll just be rewarded on seniority. So the longer they are there, the more they get paid, period. The end.

Does anybody think this would be a good way to treat people? No! It is basically Venezuela, right? This is not a good way to treat people.

It is exactly what we do with public education.