I went to the Farmers Market yesterday morning. I hadn't been there in a while. There were two cop cars and four cops guarding the entrance. It is a place where a few hundred of the most peaceful, kind, benevolent, joyful, loving, caring families you could ever want to know congregate on Saturday mornings to shop for their weekly groceries, listen to music, and socialize. There are lots of kids and (there used to be) dogs (didn't see any yesterday), and sometimes they even have jugglers. I smiled at the cops and sent them love for keeping the place so safe for everyone, but....

I have to question the way our government is spending the tax payer's money. I love shopping at the farmer's market because it is one of the safest and most benign places you can go. I run into lots of my friends there. But there are some things I can't get at the farmer's market, so I have to go to the grocery store some times. The grocery store is a lot more dangerous. People deal drugs in the parking lot. The food is laced with poison. The energy of the people who shop there is not vibrant like the people at the farmer's market. Ten times more people shop at the grocery than the farmer's market.

The grocery store only has one private security guard, and no police cars. Why is the government paying four cops to guard the farmer's market, where nothing bad is very likely to happen, when the grocery store that sure could use some help, because a whole lot more unsavory people shop there, can only afford to hire one security guard?