A Dangerous Game

There was a poll done in the past week with truckers (an odd group, I will admit).  Basically, 79-percent said they wouldn't go into cities with riots, or cities without police. 

Now, you have to lean back and think over this.

Lets say that the city of Portland (population of 653k) made this decision.  What would happen?  Some truckers would continue to make the route into the city....without police, but this would only last sixty to ninety days.  After that....most of this small group would then suggest a fee for each trip into a lawless area....maybe in the range of $1k per trip.

So to supply grocery operations?  Some groceries would go and hire ex-Army or ex-Marines, and just fund convoy operations (bringing in 20 trucks, with five to eight military-type vehicles).  Naturally, your grocery cost would go up.....probably 50-percent on a typical weekly bill of $125. 

Eventually, grocery operations would cease within the city limits, and you'd see border towns with mega operations....which had a regular police force, and controlled riots. 

The BIG hurt?  Well....sales taxes.  There's millions per week that Portland would normally collect.  Without that money.....the city government and it's operations would quickly cease.

So imagine forty US mega cities conducting the same thing, and border cities getting the tax money while cities like Minneapolis or Chicago failed. 

Then go and imagine telling this story to some idiot French or German guy.....that you can't buy groceries in Seattle or Portland, because of truckers refusing to participate in the whole 'joke'.