Los Angeles City Council's "Fast Food Ban" Moratorium

L. A. City Council is considering a moratorium to "ban" any more fast food locations from opening in the South Central and related Los Angeles areas. This is based on statistics that about 45% of the restaurants in Los Angeles are fast food joints. Big Brother is just watching out for you it seems. More of the "Government knows best..."

It's all about making sure you stay healthy they say. Apparently, you are completely incapable of deciding what you can and can't eat. And you should not be allowed to make that choice either. I suppose they're still clinging to that age-old crap about obese people, smokers and the like being more costly to care for. So, they want to make sure you understand that you can't care for yourself.

CNN had the audacity to then play a few clips of people who supposedly live in the South Central Los Angeles area. These whiners, were upset that there's no Trader Joe's or other types of grocery stores in their area, and had to travel all the way to Torrance to shop (lift).

Do you want to know WHY, there isn't crap for major grocery stores in South Central, Watts and other surrounding Los Angeles areas? Because they will go bankrupt within a year! They simply can't afford to open up shops in those areas, if they have stores elsewhere.

If you account for all the "extra" expenses a grocery chain would have to fork out of their own pockets, the 30-35% profit margin a grocery store normally runs on, would be DECIMATED. Everything, from the high rate of thefts of shopping carts and shop lifting. Having to hire the extra Security, Loss Prevention personnel and surveillance equipment.

There would be nothing left... Nothing! That sounds like a real good business model, doesn't it? Come and open a store here so you can LOOSE money.

And should you actually choose to open up in some of these areas, and you have more stores elsewhere, say in Beverly Hills, the NAACP will be all over and up in your ass if you boost prices to make up the extra costs. "That would be racist," or "racially motivated" they would claim. Discrimination! And heaven forbid you're an Asian immigrant who pours their heart and soul, everything they have into a store to serve that area. All it would take is for one of the Poverty-Pimps, namely Sharpton or Jackson, to incite one of their riots, erm, I mean "marches," and your dream goes up in flames.

Instead of "Let them eat cake.." the L.A. City Council should be going with "Let them eat Fast Food.."

You can't "force" a business to go into an area, especially when they have nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing it. So can you actually blame Trader Joe's, Kroger or any other chain, for NOT wanting to go into the South Central Los Angeles areas?

I thought not.......