Bernie, you said: “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country.”
So let me get this straight, Bernie . . . you're going to set up an agency or a czar to determine how many kinds of deodorant, and how much of it, can be permitted by law?
Will you do the same with toilet paper? I mean look how many brands of toilet paper there are. Shall we just set up a monopoly of one company, or better yet, a government monopoly, to produce exactly the right amount of toilet paper, or otherwise limit the amount of toilet paper that gets produced?
Are you going to hire Michael Gruber to be the guy who figures out the correct amount of toilet paper that people should be allowed to use? He's smart. He teaches at MIT. So why shouldn't we put him in charge of figuring out exactly how much of everything should or shouldn't be produced for the American people?
Have you been to socialist Venezuela lately, Bernie? They seem to have solved the problem of too many toilet paper brands. Because right now there is no toilet paper to be had at all in socialist Venezuela."
So tell me Bernie, what exactly will you do to feed starving children by reducing the amount of toilet paper we have in this country? And by the way, when you close all the toilet paper companies, how will the people who used to work at them feed their own starving children?
Bernie? . . . .
Bernie's solution will be to do as Muslims do, use your bare hand. If it was good enough for Muhammad then it's good enough for you..................
So, yeah... Go Bernie!!!!
It’s a great way to teach a little Econ to low info voters!
Your post may have been a bit of satire, but lemme tell you about the college professor I knew (she was one of my professors) who, along with several other top notch professors and teachers, won a trip to the USSR in the early 90”s.
When packing her bags, she actually had to include toilet paper, tissues, asprin...common things we take for granted, on her trip. Apparently, Russian toilet paper was much like the tissue used for dress patterns. And, it wasn’t easy to come by, either.
They planned their accommodations so that they encouraged private enterprise, and even then, they had to share showers bathrooms. She brought back pictures of the state run hotels which were in very bad shape. There were holes in the floor coverings, rot in the wood, lack of caulking around the tiles on the walls around the tub. I’ve seen better in ghetto housing.
But yes, the Toilet paper..some places really don’t have any.