Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Obama mainstream kook

Bread Shortages: Coming to a Country near You

By David Pietrusza
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

We all know what’s coming. If an incoming Republican Congress does not quickly de-fund and then repeal substantial portions of the Obama health care nationalization, the nation will ultimately confront chronic shortages of doctors, nursing home and hospital care, and prescription drugs.

Thank God government doesn’t have its eyes on providing the food on our daily tables.

Don’t thank Him yet—New York’s United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is working on a little something.

Capitalism has been simply terrific at feeding us. No government agency prescribes how many cartons of eggs or cans of sliced beets or gallons of skim milk a supermarket has to stock. No ivory-tower bureaucrat or Ivy League professor commands a Gristedes or a 7-11 where to locate their outlets.

And, yet, it all gets done. The Invisible Hand moves amber waves of grain from farm to factory to freezer.

We all get fed.

Until now.

This month, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand decided she would allocate another $1 billion the federal treasury on building 2,100 grocery stores nationwide.

Don’t think that Ms. Gillibrand, appointed to the World’s Greatest Deliberative Board by New York’s accidental governor David M. Paterson, is some isolated kook. No, she is an Obama mainstream kook. Her “Healthy Food Financing Initiativeâ€