Office of Price Administration. The socialist’s dream. A government agency accountable to no one charged with regulating the price and rationing of everything (there’s a war on, you know!!). I notice in the list of rationed items “pitted red cherries”. In the list of non-rationed items “fruitcake”. Why? The answer is because they can. These government types love power, and they love arbitrary power even more. There real joy is putting a boot on the neck of the public.
Yes,as a matter of fact,there *was* a war on.Even conservatives should recognize that during a war as desperate as WWII there are some government controls that can be justified that most assuredly cannot be justified at any other time.Even things like food rationing.Do you remember the Battle of the Atlantic? It's purpose was to *starve* Britain into submission...as well as to deny her vital military equipment.
“In the list of non-rationed items “fruitcake”. Why?”
Because the majority hate fruitcake?