“When toilet paper is a luxury good you have achieved socialism.”
Many years ago, I determined the best way to evaluate a country’s standard of living was to evaluate their toilet paper. I discovered this method after I made my first trip overseas. The toilet paper in that country was like bendable wood, extremely coarse. I kept some of that toilet paper.
After that first trip and keeping a piece of that first toilet paper, I started a toilet paper collection of every country where I traveled. I also carried American toilet paper with me after that first trip.
The results of the toilet paper test is this:
1. The more coarse the paper, the worse the country economy is.
2. Looking in their grocery store, the number of brands of toilet paper determines the economic wealth of the country. Don’t live in or invest in, countries with less than three types of toilet paper.
3. As of right now, American has the best economy, the highest standard of living, due to many types of toilet paper. No country has as many types as America.
4. If the types of toilet paper starts going down in America, you will know our economy is sinking, our standard of living is going down.
Buttress that with the stories we heard from Soviet Russia, about the bread lines, the grocery lines - we had the TP lines as well.
Charmin Extra Soft is proof to me that we have a great country. Yes, it clogs up my septic tank more quickly, but it’s a trade-off I’m willing to put up with.
Bernie Sanders wants to reduce the number of choices we have at the supermarket. Totalitarians are the same all over.
Now that is funny, but true. I would not have been able to express it to clearly. My first trip to Europe was in 1960, and we hit 9 or 10 countries. I remember well the strange types of T-paper and my friend made a Collection just like you did. We laughed a lot about it.
The next time I was there in 1980, it was in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and the T-paper was very respectable by that time.
I intend to buy a lot of toilet paper over the next couple of months. Along with those wipes and Kleenex. It lasts forever, and it won’t get cheaper. Good investment I’d say.