Posted on 02/04/2013 1:47:51 PM PST by grundle
The stores will be emptied by tonight....
You don’t need to be Milton Friedman to predict food shortages just around the corner.
I do believe that Einstein has liberals in mind when he uttered his famous quote about idiots doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
(Acknowledged that the same idea has been attributed to others...none of them, of course, were liberals/progressives.)
Socialists are about the most ignorant people around.
And yes, I acknowledge that Nixon did much the same thing with regard to price controls. But then again, it was Nixon.
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
“Gods of the Copybook Headings” — R. Kipling
/johnny
They never learn.
Utopia is just around the corner.
That’s always gone well, hasn’t it?
It has to be just around the corner...because they do not have any in this store anymore...
Does that mean we will be getting more of their beef?
The result will be completely predictable (to everyone who has even taken a cursory look at what happens when price controls are implemented) except liberal tools, to whom it will be “unexpected”.
And that after this is accomplished, and the Brave New World begins,
When all men are paid for existing, and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as water will wet us, as surely as fire will burn
The Gods of the Copybook Headings...
Argentina and food shortages just don’t go together. Argentina is a massive agricultural producer.
It would take an amazing failure of policy to create food shortages in Argentina.
But I am sure the crew in charge over there can do amazing things.
There’s been a drought problem in Argentina. From the looks of the political news, it looks like the drought here in the USA is going continue for some time into the future, too.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/seasonal_drought.html
Supply is one issue but if costs exceed the governmentally imposed price limit, no one is going to work at a loss.
Where is Ferfal when you need him?
The producers will stop supplying the official stores, which will become empty, and a black market will instantly appear where you can buy want you want for the real price. You could always buy bread at the official price, in the government stores, if you were prepared to wait in line all day and you didn’t care about quality.
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