The nation’s grocers can breathe a sigh of relief after Kamala Harris and her communist price controls were rejected by voters but her backers aren’t about to stop demonizing the industry.
On the day after Harris was clobbered by President-elect Donald J. Trump, the squawking harpies on “The View” were blaming everyone but their party’s terrible candidate and her extreme left policies with Whoopi Goldberg taking a shot at grocers who the co-host labeled as “pigs” in a typically unhinged diatribe.
Trump had correctly blamed the prolonged period of inflation that has crushed ordinary Americans on the Biden-Harris administration and its ruinous policies, but leftists – especially Kamala – have scapegoated grocery chains.
Wanting to talk about “the real stuff,” multi-millionaire, Whoopi Goldberg declares “your pocketbook’s bad not because of the did anything, not because the economy is bad” but because “the folks that own the groceries are pigs!” pic.twitter.com/xoKkKIMtao
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 7, 2024
“Your pocketbook is bad, not because the Bidens did anything. Not because the economy is bad. Your grocery bills are what they are because the folks that own the groceries are pigs,” Goldberg told the audience on the popular ABC daytime gabfest.
Her remarks drew a strong reaction from the National Grocers Association, an industry group that according to its website represents “independent community grocers located in every congressional district across the country, and the wholesalers that service them.”
“We are deeply troubled by these remarks … referring to people who own grocery stores as ‘pigs,’” said NGA chief executive Greg Ferrara in a letter to “The View’ executive producer Brian Teta that was obtained by the New York Post which reported on the trade group’s reaction to Goldberg’s vile insult.
“Grocery stores operate on ‘razor thin’ profit margins of between 1% and 2% and are misunderstood as the cause of food inflation — including by people who are driven by this rhetoric to commit ‘violent’ crimes against retail workers,” said the NGA, which represents over 21,000 stores across America.
Just days before the election that would soon deposit her into the garbage can of history, Harris pledged to ban “price gouging” which she and her fellow Democrats have deceptively blamed for the sticker shock at the checkout stand during her time in office.
I will lower the cost of everyday essentials for families and pass the first-ever ban on corporate price gouging on food and groceries. pic.twitter.com/jA4zkMGbrq
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 3, 2024
“Statements that falsely depict grocers as ‘gouging’ not only exacerbate these tensions but also risk further harm to these frontline workers who have continued to serve the public through challenging times,” the letter read.
Ferrara noted that inflation in food is due to “broader economic issues,” not the least of which is increased labor costs.
“We are totally outraged by the comments,” grocery store owner Zulema Wiscovitch told the New York Post which reported that a clip of Goldberg’s “pigs” comment has gone viral within the grocery community with “many incensed that family-owned businesses are being targeted by a celebrity who is inciting ‘hate’ against their employees.”
“Grocers are paying higher prices from manufacturers,” said Wiscovitch who is co-president of Associated Supermarket Group.
“It shows a lack of understanding of what’s going on with the economy,” she told the outlet. “For us to receive this kind of attack from a public figure is totally unacceptable.”
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Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.
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