Untimely and Inaccurate

That $400 000 000 per year paragon of journalistic virtue, the BBC World Service, long considered THE reliable and evenhanded source of information for those living in third world chaos (both in old blighty and the 3rd world itself), has finally found a reason to report on the 29th of April a story about retrograde and childish anti-capitalism protest in Paris that the Guardian reported on the 25th of JANUARY.

GIGO, babyr! Government IN, Government OUT. Of course they carried without question the protester’s biggest point that food costs a lot because supermarkets are MAKING A PROFIT. Competition doesn’t drive prices down, especially in a syndicalist hell like l’hexagone, but instead of taking it out on the slightly loony left, the really loony left think that merchants will feel obliged to stay in business if they lose money.

It’s the same old Groundhog Day buzz. Decade after decade the BASICS of supply and demand have to be repeated not just to the kids, but to their smelly old hippy grandparents. Don’t forget that this is the country where the term ‘property is theft’ originated.