said by calvoiper 
:What's next?
Tiffany has to build new stores in the slums for each new one it opens downtown?
Yeah, Tiffany is a luxury--but so is cable TV and, under current government policies, broadband. You want to make it a necessity? OK, then what's next?
Safeway or Kroger has to build one new store in a depressed area for each one it builds in the suburbs? Believe me, groceries are more of a "necessity" than broadband, in any comparison.
PIRG is just continuing its socialist stance--equivalency (read: mediocrity) for all, ignore capitalist concepts of "accomplishment" or "success", and support the "fellow travellers" on the left while you're at it--particularly through local "public interest channels" that carry leftist cr@p all day because the "social services" people who nurse at the teat of the public exchequer are the only ones who have time to babble on camera like pseudo-celebrities.
While "discrimination on the basis of ability to pay" may sound offensive to the leftists, it is not only generally legal, it is the primary motivation that gets people to work each day.
calvoiper
You are comparing apples and oranges here. Tiffany, Safeway, and Kroger are still usable by depressed areas because of connecting transportation and mail networks.
