Posted on 03/19/2020 9:32:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3syiTtZkfP0
Right, and what’s left goes down the chain to me. :-)
If—
By Rudyard Kipling
(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
I have a relative working in route sales for a consumable snack in a large city. Normal delivery to his Big Box Stores is in the range of $4K per delivery. The store customers are consuming $8K to $10K of it now!!! I advised him to maintain his budget and bank the rest.
PS: this snack is something that, like toilet paper, is NOT made in China or under threat of supply chain disruption. Pure panic is driving his additional sales. The fast-moving, nervous customers with bug eyes looking like a deer in the headlights scampering around stores....
There ya go. And that's exactly what this jackazz was doing.
On the other hand you pay a LOT less then they do.
Mass market goods always are of slightly lower quality then specialty items but are also much cheaper.
If you wanted you could find a source that would send you very high quality fruits and vegetables. But you would pay through the nose for it.
I guess I'm just old fashioned, and you are correct, it is no different than reading a Time magazine while taking a dump at the doctor's office 20 years ago.
We both agree doing that on someone else’s property is bad.
But for the act itself, I keep in mind, there is no rationing. There isn’t any law against it.
If it were the edge of an arid desert and people were crawling out on their hands and knees and this person was selling water at exorbitant prices (or even any price) I wouldn’t have an issue with someone kicking his butt and taking the water.
This is toilet paper. I would take leaves off a tree or pages out of a book before I would gripe about someone gouging the price of toilet paper.
Our founding fathers well knew that depending on human nature to ensure civil relationships were maintained was not going to work.
From what I heard, everyone knew who those people were, where they were, and what they were selling.
During a time of war or in a situation of actual law breaking, I would not break the law, and if someone got beat up while doing it, my reaction would be “You mess with the bull, you get the horns”
And I understand, people were looked down on and did get beat up on occasion.
Stores are limiting the number of packages per purchaser now. The slackjawed dude will have to keep coming back for one or two packages at a time. As long as the store has TP, his $60 per pack is plain dumb. It’s the dude’s TP, he can charge what he wants.
So are you another one who’d have no problem going to get TP, with the guy in front of you taking the last 9 packs of TP, as he smiles at you, winks and nods and says, “Uh, duh, I’m gunna sell these for $20.00 a roll, yuk yuk”.
No, just don’t think this is the crime of the century.
No one but you suggested that or bought it up.
"..."Executive Order 2020-8 states that if a business or individual has acquired any product from a retailer, the business or individual must not resell that product in Michigan at a price that is grossly in excess of the purchase price of the product," according to a statement from the governor's office.
Businesses, as well as individuals, are not allowed to sell any product at a price more than 20 percent higher than what the business or individual offered or charged for that product as of March 9, according to the executive order. The only way to bypass this is if the business or individual can prove that the price increase is because of an increase in the cost of bringing the product to market..."
As that is written, in that state, if the guy was doing it, well...he was violating the "Executive Order" as written. As well as doing it on someone else's property. So if he knew about the stupid executive order (which he probably didn't) he is liable for whatever counts as punishment in that pathetic state, which is even worse than my own, if that can be believed.
Personally, I think he is a douche, but I think the Leftist Governor who enacted the Executive order is just as much of a douche, and the person taking the cell phone image and making a big Internet deal out of it is the biggest douchebag out of all of them.
We have jackasses in America, no doubt, but this dustup over stupid toilet paper contributes to the jackassery, IMO.
You can post this a million more times. And you'll still be wrong. The State and Federal governments have had laws and legislation on the books for over 100 years that prove America is not a free market economy.
Which in emergencies like this - legally limit BLACK MARKET economies. And fools selling toilet paper for $60 a case are charged.
I would feel like more of a fool making an issue of it. But obviously, there are people who would see the guy assaulted or dead for depriving their rear ends of soft paper to wipe with.
I just don’t see it as important. Context is important.
Otherwise, you have to walk around being outraged at everything, which is largely a Leftist “virtue”...or at least was in the past.
But obviously, there are people who enjoy seeing this guy take total advantage of other Americans, while causing shortages, while screwing the businesses that pay rent and taxes for that parking lot he set up shop in, like a 3rd world country.
Most people I see on this thread are likely more worried about a tyrannical government overstepping its bounds over something as inconsequential as toilet paper than “enjoying” seeing this guy “take advantage of other Americans”.
If you have a post from someone who “enjoys” this guy “screwing the businesses that pay rent and taxes for that parking lot he set up shop in” I would appreciate it if you could post it. I don’t see one supporting that.
Most people would side with you on that just as I do.
By the way, it is my observation that it would most likely be people on the Left, specifically people like Bernie Sanders and his followers who would be the ones supporting a guy screwing a tax-paying business by squatting on their parking lot.
We generally aren’t anti-business here, but...you know that.
Ok, I get the clever pun. But "absorbently" doesn't work as an adverb describing "priced." I wonder if this is less about being clever than it is about being so illiterate the writer doesn't know the difference between "absorbently" and "exorbitantly."
That said, I think it would be appropriate if a few good citizens duct-taped the profiteer to a flagpole and made off with his entire inventory.
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