One way to spot an honest car dealer, according to the newsletter Tirekicking Today, headquartered on North Francisco: “Check the help-wanted ads in your Sunday newspaper. The qualities a dealer seeks in a salesperson can tell a lot about the kind of treatment you’re likely to receive as a customer.”
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“Remember that every time you patronize Gill’s [which sells beer in bulk for $4.08 a gallon at 47th and Woodlawn], it’s a consumer protest against the big-money machinations that will eventually blandify everything that you drink and eat in order to reach the widest possible market,” writes Tom Frank in Grey City Journal (November 5). “Down with Budweiser! Down with Coors! Down with beers that promote themselves with self-evidently false names like ‘Genuine Draft’ while running actual genuine beers out of the marketplace! And down with that godawful stuff, served by so many taverns, that leaves a visible chemical residue around the pitcher!”
“The general complaint is that the state’s child protection system does not work. In fact it works quite well,” writes James Krohe Jr. in Illinois Times (November 4-10)–“in meeting the needs of its actual rather than its putative clients. It keeps unemployment low in the helping professions, it keeps the costs of coping with social disorder agreeably low to the taxpayer, it provides a platform from which governors and legislators may trumpet their concern for the unlucky….The wiser policy would be to disband the [Department of Children and Family Services]. Child abuse is a crime, and might be better treated as a crime rather than as bad parenting, with intervention left to a specialized agency of law enforcement trained to recognize the difference.”
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Carl Kock.
