Posted on 02/26/2016 8:10:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The problem with socialism, Margaret Thatcher is credited with saying, is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
But the late Mrs. Thatcher - heroic conservative prime minister of Great Britain - was too well-mannered to tell people what actually comes next.
So I'll have to do it.
After socialists run out of other people's money, the people eventually run out of something almost as precious as money:
Toilet paper.
It's happening right now in Venezuela, once a socialist, oil-rich paradise and land of great shortstops. But Venezuela is fast becoming a thoroughly failed state.
Let's just hope it doesn't happen here. A nation without toilet paper is a nation ungovernable.
So I bet if you asked Bernie about a toilet paper shortage, this is what he'd say:
"Young Americans have a right to toilet papah!! You should all have toilet papah! And Wall Street, which is full of papah, should pay for all the toilet papah we need! No young American should feel the bern unless they WANT to feel the bern!"
Any toilet paper in Venezuela is either given as precious gifts, or smuggled out to nations that will pay a decent price for the privilege of soft behinds.
I'm no economist, and I'm sure there are many brilliant PhDs who would say that socialism really does work.
All Venezuela has to do is go deeper in debt, and print more money, the way we do it here in the U.S.A.
It's only paper.
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And eventually the money can be used as toilet paper!
See?
It all works out.
Venezuela...Hope they have only Pine trees.
They can all become muslims and just use their hand.
If I don’t have enough toilet paper, I’m poor. - I’ve used
corncobs for toilet paper in my life; but I prefer
Charmin.
Feel the Bern
They can use their fingers just like Muslims do. You know that august group of scientists, academicians, benevolent rulers and citizenry who have richly contributed to this world’s collective advancement? Obama said so.
I keep cases and cases of it in my preps. It is also great for barter. Paper towels too. They will be indispensable after...you know.
But you have to keep the cobs in a bucket of water, as I recall from my boyhood days. Otherwise they get mighty scratchy. :0)
That coulda bought lots of toilet paper.
I can’t wait to see how Trump uses the Utopian Socialist Paradise of Venezuela against t5he Socialist’s Bernie and Hillary
Not to mention the empty supermarket shelves and the lack of medical care. Welcome to Bernie’s world.
The movie “Reds” was on last night; it was nice to watch the scales falling from the American communists’ eyes when they watched the young USSR deteriorate into mass murder.
And eventually the money can be used as toilet paper!
See?
It all works out.
Bernies’s World
Bernies’s World
Lack of goods
Deprivation
Time to bring back the Sears catalog.
“In the Canadian wilderness, we used those big maple leaves.”
In the winter time? Which ones? The old dried up leaves on
the forest floor? I’d take the TP along anyway and just tell
your fellow canucks to go spoon a goose when they accuse you
of being too American./s
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