When will we see WWII type of gas rationing and food rationing?

[Attero Dominatus]

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These people are getting more tinfoil by the minute.

CK_John  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-04-08 12:10 PM
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When will we see WWII type of gas rationing and food rationing?
   
My guess is sometime this summer.

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spanone  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-04-08 12:12 PM
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1. the repuglicons will demand it when a democrat ascends to the presidency
   
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Hydra  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-04-08 12:12 PM
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3. As someone here on DU said a few years ago
   
It's already happening. They're doing it by price.

Don't expect an equal rationing structure- the rich will always have access by having the dollars for it. Those are their "ration coupons."
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WarholPop  (10 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-04-08 12:16 PM
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7. right on the nail
   
whenever a shared sacrifice is required the poor and powerless always pay the price: the poor disproportionately are dying in Iraq for the American oil companies, and the poor disproportionately are paying the price at the pump.
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Junkdrawer  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-04-08 12:19 PM
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11. NEVER. "Rationing" assumes shared sacrifice. They'll use price...
   
so that the Rich will be exempt.

"Why do you hate our freedoms."
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quadriga  (16 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-04-08 12:25 PM
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15. I don't know, I have a feeling that Clinton or Obama
   
will have to enact some FDR style social programs. The one good thing from a colapse of the U.S. economy is that it may get us universal healthcare.
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[Carl]

quadriga  (16 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-04-08 12:25 PM
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15. I don't know, I have a feeling that Clinton or Obama
   
will have to enact some FDR style social programs. The one good thing from a colapse of the U.S. economy is that it may get us universal healthcare.
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That about sums up all of their economic knowledge.

[Chris_]

This one gave me a belly laugh:

Don't expect an equal rationing structure- the rich will always have access by having the dollars for it. Those are their "ration coupons."

What is funny is that this primitive actually lurched into the truth and expressed multiple economic principles in one comment that was supposed to be sarcasm.

[franksolich]

That about sums up all of their economic knowledge.

Uh-huh.  A collapse of the national economy would retard movement towards "free medical care for all."

And a lot of other things, too.

The subway cat, for example, might have to get up off her ass, don one of those orange vests, and pick up trash off the sidewalks and streets eight hours a day, so as to "earn" her social services benefits.....at the very least.

[BlueStateSaint]

That about sums up all of their economic knowledge.

Uh-huh.  A collapse of the national economy would retard movement towards "free medical care for all."

And a lot of other things, too.

The subway cat, for example, might have to get up off her ass, don one of those orange vests, and pick up trash off the sidewalks and streets eight hours a day, so as to "earn" her social services benefits.....at the very least.

Coach, the thing is, said subway cat may become a better target for those of us that have rifles (or rifled shotguns)!

[Chris_]

That about sums up all of their economic knowledge.

Uh-huh.  A collapse of the national economy would retard movement towards "free medical care for all."

And a lot of other things, too.

The subway cat, for example, might have to get up off her ass, don one of those orange vests, and pick up trash off the sidewalks and streets eight hours a day, so as to "earn" her social services benefits.....at the very least.

Huh -- a lot you know.  It would be the dogs doing the trash pick ups.  Cats would supervise.

[Carl]

That about sums up all of their economic knowledge.

Uh-huh.  A collapse of the national economy would retard movement towards "free medical care for all."

And a lot of other things, too.

The subway cat, for example, might have to get up off her ass, don one of those orange vests, and pick up trash off the sidewalks and streets eight hours a day, so as to "earn" her social services benefits.....at the very least.

I don`t have much regard for subsidized make work programs but I sense that many DUmmies have no idea that the new deal programs did come with a responsibility.

I don`t think many would be all that keen on that today.

[Ralph Wiggum]

CK_John  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Mar-04-08 12:10 PM
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When will we see WWII type of gas rationing and food rationing?

Never.  Moving on...........

[franksolich]

Coach, the thing is, said subway cat may become a better target for those of us that have rifles (or rifled shotguns)!

You know, I'm sorely disappointed the subway cat doesn't already do it, on her own; after all, being a primitive, she believes in "community service."

Such orange-vested people are seen various places here in Nebraska--depending upon the locality, they're jail inmates working at lessening their sentences, or from the city mission doing some good, or teenagers working off a "community service" sentence (rather than jail time), or people enrolled in certain social services programs, or, so help me, retarded people who want to be doing something interesting and exciting with their lives.

One expects to see, and sense, a sullen resentment, as if it's chain-gang work, but all the years I've observed the phenomenon, I've never met a grouchy one.  And they do do good, complete, work, too, leaving not a shred of paper around.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Why would we need to ration gas if the whole point of the war is to steal a limitless supply of gas?

Silly thralls.

[ScubaGuy]

Coach, the thing is, said subway cat may become a better target for those of us that have rifles (or rifled shotguns)!

You know, I'm sorely disappointed the subway cat doesn't already do it, on her own; after all, being a primitive, she believes in "community service."

UP considers herself an artist and feels that we all should be paying her for her 'art'. 

[Attero Dominatus]

Why would we need to ration gas if the whole point of the war is to steal a limitless supply of gas?

Silly thralls.

Logic and DUmmies are like two positive poles of a magnet. They repel each other.

[BlueStateSaint]

Coach, the thing is, said subway cat may become a better target for those of us that have rifles (or rifled shotguns)!

You know, I'm sorely disappointed the subway cat doesn't already do it, on her own; after all, being a primitive, she believes in "community service."

Such orange-vested people are seen various places here in Nebraska--depending upon the locality, they're jail inmates working at lessening their sentences, or from the city mission doing some good, or teenagers working off a "community service" sentence (rather than jail time), or people enrolled in certain social services programs, or, so help me, retarded people who want to be doing something interesting and exciting with their lives.

One expects to see, and sense, a sullen resentment, as if it's chain-gang work, but all the years I've observed the phenomenon, I've never met a grouchy one.  And they do do good, complete, work, too, leaving not a shred of paper around.

Coach, I have to agree with the sentiment in the last paragraph.  All of the inmates I've run into on work details have been happy they've had the opportunity.  There was one who became a tad too friendly with a lab worker, on the other side of the lab, about eight to ten years ago (when I worked in the lab).  The lab worker got reassigned to somewhere where she could never be in contact with inmate work gangs again, and the inmate in question wound up having their early release revoked.  Cost the inmate four or five years of incarceration.

[jukin]

As soon as we get a real socialistic system, most likely under a second term of obama or hillary.  In the land of plenty the USSR still managed to starve their people.