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October 16, 2004
Your Tax Dollars at Work
Writes Eric Heyl in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
In East Liberty, a head of lettuce can cost more than one might think.
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services on Wednesday awarded a $700,000 grant to help finance a new 48,000-square-foot Shop 'n Save supermarket in East Liberty Station. The store will occupy vacant space formerly held by the defunct Phar-Mor drugstore chain.
This may seem like a lot of money for the federal government to pump into a private, for-profit business, until you consider how desperately the community needs this grocery. Why, the closest supermarket to East Liberty Station happens to be, oh, less than a block away.
What's more, Heyl says, within half a mile of both of those is one working supermarket and another one under construction--and both received local taxpayer dollars to build there.
Legalized theft is alive and well in the Pittsburgh area.
Posted by Mike Tennant at October 16, 2004 11:59 AM