Access to Gardening Supplies Being Restricted in Michigan

© 2020 by Tom King

I thought folks in Michigan who have been banned from buying gardening supplies at Walmart might enjoy this one I just whipped up with Governor Gretchen the Merciless's image. It has been pointed out by my friends, who are members of the loyal opposition, that it is unjust of me to accuse the governor of banning gardening in Michigan to prevent the spread of the Wuhan Flu.  You, can after all, still buy seeds at local hardware stores, grocery stores and specialty shops. You'll just have to pay more for them. And ain't that the Democrat way. As one friend put it, "Is not your local grocer open? Your Ace hardware store? Your local garden center? They're not limited and they need your business more than the big box stores do. When I lived in Michigan I always shopped local and worked local.

 And there it is. The Democrat moral superiority as demonstrated by their love for the little guy and disdain for Walmart! Democrats for some reason are always trying to shift the market back to higher-priced smaller, so-called "local" stores. It's part of the way the left acquires its unearned moral superiority. But this isn't Europe. Most of us raggedy Americans aren't part of the British upper classes, shopping at the boutiques and shoppes to demonstrate what class we belong to (the one that's better than yours).

In America, since when does one kind of store get preference over another. What happened to the American tradition of open competition and free markets. Once you get a leftist defending the actions of the Dear Leaders, the masks tend to slip off. So this is about forcing people to go to more expensive stores to get what they want. And by the way, if they do that, the stock of supplies in these stores will be exhausted almost overnight while stuff wilts in the garden section down at Walmart. 

Don't kid yourself. This isn't about controlling the spread of Wuhan flu. It's about experimenting with social engineering. And how many of those beloved by the left Mom & Pop grocery stores sell plant sets, garden tools and big bags of fertilizer? It's true that you can still buy garden stuff in Michigan, at least until the shelves are Venezuela bare.Whitmer's executive order 2020-42 mandates that big box-type stores restrict access to portions of their stores as a means of reducing the number of customers in certain areas. Those sections include lawn and garden. Essentially the order limits the purchase of gardening supplies, seeds, tools and other necessary items for people to grow their own food at home, critics say.

Why pick on gardening supplies? It's easy to maintain social distancing in a gardening section of a Walmart, Lowe's or Home Depot, or a nursery. There's no logic to closing the gardening section if you are going to leave other sections of the store open. The Governor made sure she could still buy shoes, just not items you need to grow food to prepare for the expected post Wuhan Flu food shortage or to grow flowers to cheer up people depressed by the lockdown isolation.

Nope, she went with "Make America Great through protecting the ability of people who can't keep it zipped to kill millions of unborn children. That's a philosophical contradiction too obvas Scrooge once put it, "...if they're going to die, they'd better do it and thereby reduce the surplus population."
 

Because they can't completely close the big box stores and leave the mom and pops open without getting sued. So explain to me why she closed carpet and gardening departments at Lowe's, Home Depot and Walmart and not in smaller stores. I'll tell you. They're testing the waters. Trying to get people going back to higher priced local stores because they think they need to get people back to the kind of higher priced stores they shop at. Besides, preferential treatment for smaller stores shows off their phony anti-corporation moral superiority. It makes no sense to close the least heavily trafficked areas of those stores. It's not like you're going to be rubbing up against a lot of infected millenials amongst the tomato plants.

How come it makes sense to be forcing people to pay more to get their gardens going in a year when ordinary working folk are not able to work and when they say we're going to have massive food shortages because ..........Trump! Wouldn't it make sense to make gardening more affordable to encourage people to plant gardens to help feed themselves?

I hear Nancy Pelosi didn't have any trouble getting a load of $13.99 a pint gourmet ice cream delivered to restock her $26,000 sub zero freezers. Marie Antoinette once said, when told the peasants were starving because they had no bread, "Let them eat cake." Pelosi, Whitmer and Queen Marie's comments seem strikingly similar in sentiment and completely out of touch with their "subjects".*

© 2020 by Tom King

*After writing this I found that they've eased off in Michigan on the garden centers. Apparently between the Catholic Church hitting her about closing garden centers and leaving abortion mills open and the wrath of Michigan's militant gardeners, she decided that she needed to open the garden centers to blunt that narrative a bit. I wonder if Gretchen has been having nightmares about guillotines lately.