Posted on 10/19/2021 5:51:53 PM PDT by lowbridge
An opinion piece published in The Washington Post encourages Americans to not “rant” about the supply chain crisis and other economic troubles.
As dozens of cargo ships coming from Asia remain stranded off the coast of California, social media users have been posting images of empty store shelves and expressing frustration that they are unable to make formerly routine purchases. However, Micheline Maynard — an author and contributing columnist for The Washington Post — told readers to not complain about the phenomenon.
Across the country, Americans’ expectations of speedy service and easy access to consumer products have been crushed like a Styrofoam container in a trash compactor. Time for some new, more realistic expectations.
Fast food is less fast. A huge flotilla of container ships is stuck offshore in California, waiting to unload. Shelves normally stocked with Halloween candy this time of year are empty, as I saw the other day at a Target here in Ann Arbor, Mich.
American consumers, their expectations pampered and catered to for decades, are not accustomed to inconvenience.
She again slammed consumers for their willingness to “whine” about staffing shortages:
Customers’ persistent whine, “Why don’t they just hire more people?,” sounds feeble in this era of the Great Resignation, especially in industries, such as food service, with reputations for being tough places to work.
Rather than living constantly on the verge of throwing a fit, and risking taking it out on overwhelmed servers, struggling shop owners or late-arriving delivery people, we’d do ourselves a favor by consciously lowering expectations.
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Welcome to socialism.
“You’ll have nothing, and you’ll like it! Or else!”
>>by consciously lowering expectations
Malaise; it’s back.
I feel quite certain that they’d have said the same thing if PDJT was still in office.
You’ll own nothing, there is nothing, you are nothing (we own your body) and you’ll like it.
They’re conditioning us for when we have to stand in line for hours for a loaf of bread, Soviet Union style.
If this was under President Trump's regime, she would "whine" the loudest.
Instead, she says "Empty shelves? Let them eat crap!"
I suppose the comparisons to the ‘40s and ‘70s are apt. Rationing was not necessary during World War 2, and gasoline shortages were not caused by the Arab oil embargo. Both of those shortages, like the current problems, were purely the result of domestic government policy.
Socialists: don’texpect us to fix the problems. We want the problems because they advance multipl goals for us.
You need to learn to live with the problems and lower your expectations.
Thats the fundamental democrat platform in 2021.
Funny thing. A year ago at the height of the pandemic none of this was a problem
All this has been created in 9 months of Biden Democrats running the US Federal Government.
It can all be fixed by firing the Biden Democrats. It their stupid economic, monetary, and energy polices that is the root cause of these problems
They’re communists at the Washington Post.
Supply shortage? What supply shortage
Amazing what happens when a government doesn't subsidize idleness and discourage productivity.
Does this mean that the chocolate ration is going up again?
All I know is that through January 20, 2021 at noon I had no trouble finding cheap gasoline (under $1.80 a gallon here) and store shelves were full too. It began a few years ago with Saas (Software As A Service) and pretty soon you won’t be able to actually own anything. I read an article over at WND about that, “People now financing pizza, single cups of coffee in bizarre financial dystopia”, so give that a look. The left thinks books like ‘1984’ are blueprints, not the warnings the authors intended them as. Sure the ‘scamdemic’ helped them, but the left are intentionally messing with the supply chain now. This is all on democRATs.
Stop making sense on the internet. That will soon be a crime.
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