Comments by "Digital Footballer" (@digitalfootballer9032) on "How Dollar Stores Quietly Consumed America" video.

Let's be honest, both major political parties are totally in the pockets of the big corporations. If you think "your party" is helping out the lower and middle classes, you are a fool. These politicians help themselves. The main difference between the two is that Democrats chuck more benefits at people to get their votes, and keep those people dependent on government even more. Both parties suck, but I don't think it would matter even if we had other viable political parties. The problem is that people get in office, they get power, and they do whatever benefits themselves best. Unless they impose term limits on every government position, and outlaw lobbying, this will never change, and that isn't happening anytime soon.
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I was denied purchasing beer at a supermarket because my wife didn't have her ID on her, even though I had mine and am in my 40's. The manager heard me complaining and intervened and she said it's the state (NY) that makes them do it. I suppose that's true. When I went to college in Pennsylvania, they would sell you alcohol if anyone in your party was 21. I was 18 and used to go pick up the guy down the hall that was 24 and go to the drive through beer distributor and get beer all the time no problem. Oddly, as strict as New York is about purchasing alcohol from a store, they actually have an old law still on the books where it is completely legal for a minor to drink alcohol at a bar if their parent is accompanying them and gives permission. Very few people actually even knew that law exists, but it does.
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I remember as a kid in the 1980's in my small town you could go down the main road through the village and there was a local drug store, hardware store, deli, bakery, liquor store, bank, and barber shop all in a row. All of that is gone now and has been for probably 30 years.
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@Zappypaddles Capitalism provided you with the very device you typed that comment on. If you lived in a communist country you would probably be standing in line for the last 30 years trying to get a rotary phone for your house.
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It's like all these morons that complain about Americans resisting using things like mopeds, bicycles and electric vehicles. Fine, if you live in a big city, but a lot of us don't. America is a big place, and if you live in a rural area, you aren't getting to where you need to be in a bike or EV. I'd like to know what the solution is for all these people that want to force everyone to have EV's for when I have to travel several hundred miles for my job, or even just to visit friends and family? Well, either you are SOL and don't do it, you stop 18 times to charge you car, or you fly there and pay way more and burn hundreds of times more fuel then you would in a traditional car.
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It depends on what you buy. Fortunately for me, I have a supermarket, a Walmart, and several dollar stores within a few miles of where I live, and if you know what is best to get at each, you can cycle through all of them and get the best deals at each. I have found that the DG is the best place to get stuff for my kids lunches. Things like granola bars and snacks are cheaper there regularly then they are at sale price at the supermarket.
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When I worked at Kmart when I was 19-20 years old I was allowed to sell guns and ammo, and even had a key to the firearms room, but wasn't allowed to sell tobacco products 😂
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The old saying "you have to have money to make money" is 100% true. If I had the money, I'd open my own business and keep 100% of the net profits, but I don't, so I work for another guy who does and I get probably about 20-25% of what I bring in.
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This is the left's solution to everything...cram everyone together in dirty, crime ridden cities, take their cars away and make them ride bikes and drive EVs with about a 30 mile range so they are trapped there. Because "the environment". I hate to tell you, but it's your cesspool cities where "the environment" sucks. Out here in rural NY state where I live the environment is just fine. The air is clean, the water is clean, hell we have artesian wells with some of the best natural water in the country here. Me driving my pickup truck 40 miles round trip to work isn't killing anyone here, we're all doing just fine.
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Every podunk town in upstate NY has a DG, and i mean all of them. You can drive pretty much any state route through every little one traffic light, dilapidated town and sure enough, there is that shiny new beige box with the yellow sign.
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@lauriepenner350 Although depending on where you live, the property tax can be terrible. I live in a low cost area for property, I own an 1800 sq ft home on an acre and with an outbuilding that has an extra garage bay and a loft and full electric that I paid $190K for in 2012, which even then was dirt cheap compared to the national average. But it's in NY state, so the taxes. Up over $6K a year now for county and school, together with our 8.75% sales tax and roughly 7% state income tax.
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