mcdonald s is based in the windy city and wheverywhere he goes hs asked what s going on in chicago. he said restaurants are witnessing violent crime, overdoses, and that s not only making it difficult to get the stores staffed but it s making it hard to recruit to the corporate staff. stats point to some decline to the most violent crimes but more robbery and carjackings. starbucks came out and said it s closing 16 stores, to be exact, in seattle, los angeles, washington d.c., and portland, citing a high volume of challenging incidents that they say make it unsafe to operate. a different subject. responding to the story about a big hack within their data. what is this? talk about challenging to operate. we got this information
starbucks said this week will shudder 16 store locations in cities across the country concerns over safety. the copy chain said it would permanently close doors each in seattle and los angeles areas in portland and single locations in philadelphia and washington d.c. after store managers complained to executives employees do not feel safe in a surge in crime and drug use around the locations. union activists filing complaint against the company claiming the closures are retaliation for a push to organize starbucks workforce. dan henninger and kim strassel. kim, who had a thought being a burisma will become a dangerous line of work? is there anything to the union complaint that s really about union organizing or is it really about safety? this is all about safety we are seeing it all across the
industrial accidents at food processing facilities. at the same time, the president s warning us about food shortages. we ree going to hit by planes and catching fire . what is going on here exactly?at jason rantes host a radio showad in seattle and joins us to put it into t perspective. jason , good to see you. good to see you. yeah, obviously when something happens every so often youev obviously hope that there s no significant damage and certainly no one gets hurt. off. u kind of write it it s d not that big of a deal. accidents happen. but when you vee gotbu well ovea dozen food processing plants and warehouses getting destroyed or seriously damaged over just the last few weeks at a time when the food supply is already vulnerable, it s obviously suspicious and it couldd lead to serious food shortages. that s why some folks are now wondering, well, number one , what s going on ? you ve got some people speculating that this might be an pspec intentional way to disrupt the food supply
liberal. they will pretend to be the friend of black americans, but they only do that to use the black americans against conservatives. to use them as ponds, and it hurts black americans. and the city council president in seattle, she s actually running for mayor. this is what she proposed to reduce the gun violence. you ready? programs, from hospital-based intervention strategies to trauma-healing programs. do you guys know what that means? i have no idea what that means. and nobody else does. so seattle voted for these clowns. at a certain point you have to say, these are the leaders the seattle people chose, and now seattle is a shooting gallery. all it is was rain and coffee out there, now they shoot people. what is the point of seattle but he can t get a cup of coffee safely and listen to grunge and watch frasier?
borough. not only 25,000 from amazon, but the other tech companies that would move in. it becomes a magnet like in seattle and silicon valley and then you have the support bests and restaurants and hotels and raise tax revenue. hundreds of thousands of jobs, billions and billions in tax revenues and it s all been stopped dead? and she wants credit for this? and the reason it was stopped dead, they said they didn t want to give the tax credits and felt it would raise rents, et cetera, et cetera. and it brings up an important point that she you say twitter doesn t matter. she may be the more vocal of that group and you consider the alexandria ocasio-cortez green new deal program. i m sorry, the sound dropped out. leland: that she put forth i m thinking we re having an issue with your ear piece, and i m guessing that you can t hear me right now. is what i ve been told. so, we will take a break. and come back in a couple of minutes with john. oh, now john can hear moo he