A Publicly-Funded Supermarket - Could the Founding Fathers Have Envisioned Such a Thing?

I wonder if the Founding Fathers could ever have envisioned that there would someday be a “right” to a publicly-funded grocery store.

Adorned by beaming public officials anxious to be photographed, the predominantly taxpayer-provided Hill District Shop ‘n Save has opened to great fanfare.

While it is wonderful that the people of the Hill and surrounding communities will now have a long-dreamed of full-service grocery store that offers healthful food at a competitive price,  it is ominous that the store could not come to fruition on its own two feet like any other Shop ‘n Save or Giant Eagle store in the region.  If the store is such a great idea and extraordinary patronage expected, why would the owner not be willing to fund it without a public handout?

If public funding of some sort was to be forced on the general public, why would it not be under the provisions of a loan rather than a grant?

The entitlement society rolls on unabated no matter which party controls government.  What do we do when we exhaust the ability to spend other people’s money?