"Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania leaned into the podium, almost past the microphone, to make his point to the union crowd about how mad corporate leaders are at him.
“But I got news for them,” Casey told Dauphin County Democrats and AFSCME members. “They should get used to it. Because I’m going to continue to prosecute the case on greedflation and shrinkflation.”
For Democrats trying to defend the White House and Senate majority, Casey is emerging as the tip of the spear in attacking “greedflation” — a blunt term for corporations that jack up prices and rip off shoppers to maximize profits — and trying to reframe the election-year narrative about the economy."
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Yet only one state AG is suing to stop Kroger from buying Safeway/Albertsons grocery stores. Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Apparently he's the only one who is out there fighting for us American citizens.
I don't know about other places but where I live, that would mean that Kroger owned Fred Meyer, QFC, Safeway/Albertsons.
That would leave TWO grocery stores not owned by Kroger here. Those being Walmart and Winco.
If anyone believes that allowing Kroger to own so many grocery stores in our nation is a good thing and they won't jack up prices because they basically have a monopoly, I have a beautiful piece of ocean beachfront property in Colorado to sell them.
We have allowed way too many "consolidations" to happen and we have a few companies controlling a large majority of the market.
The truth is that capitalism that isn't properly regulated only results in monopolies. Which results in destroyed economies.
The founders of the nation knew this which is why the inserted one simple sentence into the constitution that gives the government the power to regulate business. It's called the Commerce Clause.
It's just too bad we have allowed conservative politicians to remove so many much needed regulations that protect our people, our economy and our nation.
