To dovetail with another thread, I wonder what the DUmmies would think about grocery prices if President 0bama just printed more money (ala DUmmy Manny Goldstein)? Those Nilla Wafers would be about $10 a box.
Uh, more than ten bucks, sir, if the Big Zero did that, just printed more money.
I speak from experience here, from those years wandering around the socialist paradises of the workers peasants, and I saw this first-hand,
fiat money.
The month I got there, the Ukrainian
karbovanets, which had originally been issued at 2 for 1 American dollar, were selling 47 for 1 American dollar.
And then it went downhill after that.
After I'd been there about three months, it was up to 48,000 for 1 American dollar.
After I'd been there about six months, it was up to 275,000 for 1 American dollar.
I no longer remember what it was a year later, but I learned "a trillion" before the Big Zero acquainted us with that particular number.
In the meantime, wages didn't go up too; they stayed what they had been since August 1991.
If my good friend and pal Manny had his way, and the Big Zero just printed more money, pretty soon the well-paid snout primitive couldn't even buy a pair of shoelaces with his enormous teacher's salary.
