With all of the harping and bitching that goes on about drunk driving these days, we have approximately 2 questions for the Nova Scotia Government. First of all, why are the all of the liqour stores so far away from everyone’s house? Jesus, privatize that shit already. We’re not Moses and we don’t feel like walking 40 days and 40 nights to pick up our $14.95 bottle of Jost. Second, why isn’t there a bus that drives around and picks people up from the bar? Frig. Cabs are too expensive, unreliable, and sketchy. Viva la drunk bus!!
This article appears in Feb 14-20, 2008.
If you can afford to go downtown, pay cover and buy $5 drinks you should really be able to make arrangements for a cab. Actually getting one might be a different story. Could you imagine how unreliable and sketchy the “Drunk Bus” would be? The Coast would have to create a bitch forum just for the bus.Unless your living on Sable Island how far can you possibly live from an LC? I live within a 25 minute walk from 3 LC’s and 2 brewery’s with the closest LC being 5 mins away. I do agree it should be privatized.
Most LC’s in metro are located next to or in grocery stores. How the fuck do you people get your groceries? Next time you’re getting a bottle of booze pretend you’re going out to get a loaf of bread, quart of milk, and a stick of butter. There, now it doesn’t seem so bad now does it?
Totally, time to de-socialize the NSLC. I don’t see why government access to liquor, or especially beer and wine helps anyone. It never made sense to me that the same people (the government) responsible for selling vodka and whiskey are charged with the safety and education of the children of this province. What kind of message does this send?Why not let private business, who can better cater to the needs of consumers in this province, take over the job of selling alcohol, and let the government focus on the things it seems to have so much trouble with as of late: Health care, education, policing, the economy.Perhaps all this close proximity to its vast stores of alcoholic beverages have gone to out provinical leaders’ heads…
Look at how well the Lottery Corp is run in the hands of retailers. That might be your first clue as to why the gov’t keeps such a tight grip on liquor sales.
What do lottery sales have to do with anything?
Think about it for awhile. If no one makes a connection I’ll explain later. I’m gonna go watch some tv.
Well certainly the lottery corp seems corrupt if that is what you are referring to, are you saying that they will steal the “win a trip to the budweiser mansion” when I buy a 12 pack? I don’t see what that has to do with government getting out of the business of selling what corner stores and private boutiques can do just as well.
Look, its been statistically proven that in inordinate amount of retails are winning at the lottery, more than regular folk like you and me. And you want to trust THESE people with booze? Unlike the lottery corp, NSLC employees are ineligble to claim prizes (though yes, I’m sure it happens some way or another)I do like the idea of it though, like when I was in Montreal last year and had a late night hankering for a beer, I just walked to the local kwikeemart and scored a couple beers.I say we follow suit and put them in gas stations too, just like in quebec.
Ok, so its been statistically proven that in inordinate amount of retailers are winning at the lottery… that may be true. The government? Well ever since they instituted the “temporary” income tax scheme, way back when before World War I, the government has had it’s own lottery to contend with – billions of our hard earned dollars to spend unfettered on whatever they see fit. Like propping up the “rural economy” with unionized NSLC outlet stores. Do these people really deserve $15 an hour to run a till? Not when it is the tax payers of this province shelling out and extra $8 on every 6 pack to pay for it.The sooner I can go to my local corner store and buy wine and beer the better. The NSLC can keep peddling the spirits if they like, but I think it’s time for a change!
So its not about convenience and all about making sure some man or woman doesn’t make $15.hour doing what sobeys folks do for $8?
Hey Mike- no, they don’t deserve $15/hr to tun a till…they deserve $15/hr to put up with the customers. I’ve been there-it isn’t fun. YOU deal with a drunk asshole tossing shit across the counter at you, barking at you because you haven’t handled their items as carefully as THEY think you should (which is more carefully than you would handle a newborn kitten), oh, and dealing with the jerks up in office who think you need to be yelled at on a daily basis because they’re power-tripping. THAT’s why cashiers deserve $15 a freakin hour.And to get back to the OP- for pete’s sake, every LC I’ve ever come across has been right next to a grocery store. Here’s an idea-when you pick up your groceries (the non-liquid variety), maybe pick up your alcohol at that time also? Or do you go through it that quickly? I know we live in Nova Scotia, but come on!
If you think the price of booze would go down if it was privatized, forget it. The govt would still need to take its same cut that it does now so there would be no savings there. The cost of running the NSLC would be replaced with the retailer margins on top of the govt tax (the margin at present is essentially the tax) plus you would have all the costs of delivering to a couple of thousand stores instead of a couple of hundred, plus the army of inspectors that would be needed to police them. I would love to know where the OP lives where they have to walk 40 minutes to a liquor store. Surely not in the city.
so its ok to chat about how drunk you get to the point you need a way home but not to express your feelings about a little girl? Thank God the poster isn’t Moses!! If you wish to drink that is your problem, but finding your own way home from downtown is also your problem why should tax payers money go towards a drunk buss to carry stunned little bimbos and the bedsheets home, get the next guy you’re sleeping with too!