[calex59]

All this BS reminds me of a Nail factory in the old Soviet Union. I talked to a guy who managed to escape from the USSR and he told me that the gov. would tell them to produce so many lbs of nails per shift. So in order to make the weight requirement they produced the biggest nails they made. When the government protested that they need more nails, not more weight, the factory then shifted to making the smallest nails in order to bring the numbers up. They very seldom made nails that anyone wanted, or at least no nails anyone wanted in great numbers.

Governments are incapable of running a business at a decent profit.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

This reminds me of a story someone told back when the Soviet Union was at it’s height.

They were on the Trans-Siberian railway far out in the sticks of subarctic Russia. At a station stop the person noticed a long eastbound train loaded with dimensional lumber, in the hole (the siding).

In the distance, a westbound freight could be seen approaching. As it finally rushed by, the observer noted that it was also loaded with dimensional lumber, bound for wherever the other train had originated from.

Such are the perils of centralized government economic planning.