BAR wrote:
H the K wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
On Aug 10, 10:09 am, Frogwatch wrote:
After the recent shortages in Cuba and Venezuela, Obama has announced
an initiative to stockpile a vital commodity so as to be able to send
stocks to areas experiencing shortages so as to prevent civil unrest.
"The STPR will provide a cushion against any market bottom and in the
end we will all appreciate this reserve" a whitehouse spokesman said.
Our new Strategic Toilet Paper Reserve will be located in New Orleans.

The point of this post is that whenever the govt tries to run the
economy, it fails. Cuba, a country that produces vast amounts of
sugar actually has sugar shortages. They could process all their
sugar cane waste into pulp to make toilet paper but of course there is
no incentive so they now have shortages. Iran, nearly drowning in oil
actually has gasoline shortages because the govt runs the industry
there. The same is true of Venezuela, shortages of fuel. The Soviets
were great at building BFR (Big Fokkin Rockets) but were unable to
make any necesary consumer products. Government running of large
portions of an economy has been tried many many times and has always
been a miserable failure so we really do not need to do the experiment
again.


Yeah. Medicare is a big failure. Right. D'oh.

Medicare is going bankrupt. I guess if that is your measure of success
then Medicare is a wild success!

That's easy enough to fix. The problem is not that medicare is a
failure, it is that it isn't being properly funded.