AMAZON FRESH ON THE 30 BLOCKS OF SQUALOR

Earlier this week I was making my normal daily commute through the badlands of West Philly on my way to work. I made my normal right turn onto Fairmont Avenue at 34th street, where the famous gated low income housing shangri la of Mantua Square is located. The hovels in the block before Mantua Square look like this:

Every third house is boarded up. Trash and garbage litter the streets. You rarely see a soul stirring, especially at 7:30 am. No one on this block hustling off to work. The buildings are literally falling down. As I’ve noted before, the median household income in this neighborhood is less than $19,000. More than a third of the people haven’t even graduated high school. The home values are less than $35,000, as if someone would actually buy in this neighborhood. The true unemployment rate is above 60%. Everyone is living on the government dole. This is truly a major encampment for the Free Shit Army.

But still, most of the cars parked on the streets are nicer than mine. There are BMWs, Cadillacs, Volvos, and numerous vehicles with new temporary tags in their rear windows. All of the hovels have Direct TV satellite dishes. The youths I see wandering the streets all have iPhones. Many are wearing Air Jordan sneakers. They get out of luxury automobiles to line up for free food every Thursday at the local church.

But on this particular day, I turned the corner and a big green truck was taking up most of the street in front of one of the hovels. As I maneuvered around the behemoth I noticed the name on the side of the truck – Amazon Fresh.

I had never seen a truck like this or heard the term. When I got to the office I googled Amazon Fresh. It seems this is another new service being rolled out by Jeff Bezos. I wonder how much money he’ll lose on this one. It will surely make his stock go up another $100.

But here is the deal. They have rolled this high end grocery delivery concept out in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Manhattan. It’s is an upscale concept with upscale prices. They evidently just started it in Center City Philadelphia in upscale neighborhoods. You have to pay $300 per year as an Amazon Prime member to just be able to access the service. The groceries are then 10% to 20% more expensive than shopping at a grocery store. You then have to tip the delivery person. Therefore, you are paying approximately 30% more for your groceries.

How the fuck can a free shit army corporal living on welfare in a rundown hovel in West Philly afford to have their groceries delivered by Amazon at a 30% premium, when I cut coupons, buy stuff on sale, and shuffle out the door at 7:00 am every Sunday to shop for groceries? There is truly something wrong with this country when hard working, tax paying, families do the heavy lifting and the lazy, shiftless, uneducated dregs of society think they deserve to be housed, clothed and fed with our tax dollars.

Now I’m off to my mom’s house to help her pack for her move. Tomorrow, I’ll head off to Giant for groceries and then put in two more raised beds to grow tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and lettuce. I’ll get my paycheck next week with the comforting knowledge that the thousands of dollars I pay in Federal, State, and Philly taxes will go towards allowing the free shit army to get their groceries delivered by Amazon Fresh.

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Llpoh

See – I toldyaso! Add Star to that enormous injun tribe the Wannabees!

Llpoh

Fuck me – Stuck may be correct, at least re self-reporting. However, hispanics as a whole prolly have the dirty Huns outnumbered, as perhaps do the entirety of the UK peoples. But as an individual country, Germany seems to be it.

The US kicks their asses, then lets them migrate in. Go figure.

SSS

“All you got to do to see US culture is get out of big shitties and drive the countrysides and see small towns and town folk, before that gets swallowed up by multiculturalism, too.”
—-Llpoh

Oh, so true. Last month was a road trip through Texas for the little woman and me. Terlingua, just west of Big Bend National Park and out in the middle of nowhere, was a hoot.

Bunch of Texas rednecks, men and women, sitting on a huge porch in front of a country store drinking beer and singing country songs. On a Sunday afternoon. The dirt parking lot was full of big ass pickups with big ass engines. Kids running all over the place playing games. Sign on the building says, “No Dogs on the Porch.” There were six dogs on the porch.

There’s a big annual chile cook off held in Terlingua. Bring your own motor home, because there’s no motels. You just can’t buy that sort of cultural experience. You have to see it to believe it. I absolutely love small town and rural America.

Llpoh

SSS – me too. Country folk are as good as it gets.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Llpoh says:

See – I toldyaso! Add Star to that enormous injun tribe the Wannabees!

The Fuckawee Nation

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

57 million Hispanics and I’m not sure that includes the 11-15 million illegals.

SSS

“Hey, if anyone else has ideas about culture — as Llpoh and El Coyote have — now is the time to chime in.”
—-Stucky

Thanks a bunch. For nothing. See my comment on Terlingua, Texas above.

I’ve been telling these stories about people on my road travels on this site for years. Staying in a converted bunk house on a cattle ranch in North Dakota. The waitresses in the ranch’s “restaurant” had just arrived from Poland. Wandering around the capitol building in Cheyenne, Wyoming while the single state cop in the whole friggin building dozed off in a corner station under the rotunda. Eating a picnic lunch with other tourists in Yellowstone while a coyote ambled just 5 feet past our table – no one batted an eye. We all lived in coyote country. Shit like that, Stucky.

For El Coyote. One of the guys sitting on the front porch of that general store in Terlingua was obviously Mexican-American. But he wore a T-shirt (it was a warm day), jeans, boots, the works needed to fit right in. Played a guitar while the others sang. There are PLENTY of Mexican-Americans in the small towns and rural areas of the Southwest who don’t speak Spanish, btw.

Zarathustra

SSS says:

On a Sunday afternoon. The dirt parking lot was full of big ass pickups with big ass engines.
____________________________

Funny you should say that. I can drive from my house and cross only one intersection with Hwy 6 and count 20 of them. I call them BATS (Big assed pickup trucks). Those that have extended cabs but not four doors I call BJ’s (Bat Juniors). Normal pickup trucks don’t count.

Texans has a weird fixation on them. In Oregon I drove a four wheel drive Ford Explorer and while it was occasionally useful, it was not fun to drive, especially over speed bumps. Being mostly sane, I bought a convertible when I moved here.

starfcker
starfcker

Come on llpoh. Get me a casino. I’ll check the box. Me and lizzie pocohantis. We’ve got those high cheekbones, you know? Got to be worth something. I dated a girl who’s dad owned the sands in vegas, howie engel. He was in his 70’s when she was born. Her mom was 23.fred reed would approve. She was stunning, but a head case with executive salary for an allowance.

Stucky

“I’ve been telling these stories about people on my road travels on this site for years.” —- SSS

Indeed, you have. Wonderful stories, too. My sincerest apologies for forgetting that.

flash
flash

Once the black man gains total control over the white oppressor , all poverty will be eliminated, black SAT scores will sore and the white devil’s ghettos will never blight this great homogenous land of the freed slave ever again….you honkies may disagree, but that counts for naught..it’s all been prophesied bt the black Hebrew Israelite nation and their interpretation of biblical prophesy has yet to be disproved….so who are we to argue?

Multicultural Harmony on the Streets of San Franfreakshow: Black Supremacists Promise to Enslave, Torture, and Murder White People

http://moonbattery.com/?p=57784

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BLb3o65q0vk

Black Supremacist Explains Why Old Glory Should Be Thrown on the Ground and Trampled

http://moonbattery.com/?p=57802

This not-so-learned professor and self-proclaimed “terrorist toward white people” is named Eric Sheppard. He has reportedly threatened to implement social justice by shooting students, and is currently the subject of a manhunt:

Police confronted Sheppard on campus grounds when they said that he dropped a backpack on Tuesday.

[WAGA’s Chris] Shaw reported that police had already let him go when they realized there was a gun and two clips inside the backpack.

The police consider him armed and dangerous.

Put enough poisonous politically correct lies in the heads of young idiots and eventually they will be acted on.

Stucky

” … black SAT scores will sore ” ——– flash

What the hell does that even mean?

Jamal: “I done got fucked on mah SAT. Only skored a 240. Now ah nevah be gittin into da colledge. Motherfucka! I is SORE!!”

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Flash,

There’s a novel called “Blond Roots” that imagines if blacks had enslaved whites, instead of the other way around. That’s like imagining a world where an army of 90 pound women conquer an army of 200 pound men.

flash
flash

Stucky says:

” … black SAT scores will sore ” ——– flash

fester? I only write this shit.. I don’t proof read it.

Iska Waran , blacks have already enslaved the land of stupid .They’re desires and demands control the flow of mass media and public policy. Everyday, here in the south, I I see more mulatto children than white, and even country music is being taken over by the black rap culture .and to top it off most young white males i come in contact with are more feminine than their butch sister…stick a fork in this melting pot pie.. it’s done.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

SSS says: For El Coyote. One of the guys sitting on the front porch of that general store in Terlingua was obviously Mexican-American. But he wore a T-shirt (it was a warm day), jeans, boots, the works needed to fit right in. Played a guitar while the others sang. There are PLENTY of Mexican-Americans in the small towns and rural areas of the Southwest who don’t speak Spanish, btw.

EL Coyote is not the sharpest tool in the box, I admit that. Many of my compatriots have gone farther faster. Sure, I have met many worse off than myself and a few better off. Some share my heritage perhaps, but they come from different cultures. It is always a good idea to use formal Spanish with strangers and show respect to Hispanic doctors and other professionals.

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