{"id":60270,"date":"2021-11-03T19:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T00:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60270"},"modified":"2021-11-03T19:20:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T00:20:29","slug":"get-ready-for-food-rationing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60270","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready for Food Rationing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-10 medium-centered columns featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dweaay7e22a7h.cloudfront.net\/wp-content_3\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Get-Ready-for-Food-Rationing-650x360.png\" alt=\"Get Ready for Food Rationing\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row content-body\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-10 medium-centered columns\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-2 columns\">\n<div class=\"row collapse meta-post-info\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"single-article-body\" class=\"small-12 medium-10 columns single-article\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyreckoning.com\/get-ready-for-food-rationing\/\">Get Ready for Food Rationing<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>It was a very strange moment when this week the spokesperson for the president defended inflation as a high-class problem. She explained that higher prices are merely a sign that economic activity is picking up. People are buying things and that\u2019s good. Of course that pushes up prices, she said. Just deal with it.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, the White House will say anything. Truth, facts, morality \u2014 these things matter less and less in current-day America. Your misery is an illusion. Losing your job because you don\u2019t want the jab? Hey, that is the price you pay for noncompliance. Expect no sympathy from anyone in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"centered subhead\"><b>The Great Rationing<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It must have been this flippant dismissal that caused me to go over the top. I wrote that hyperinflation could lead not only to implicit price controls, but also to rationing. Eventually, we could see the government issuing food tickets into bank accounts that allow us only a certain amount of food for the week. One chicken. One pound of hamburger heat. Five rolls of toilet paper.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote that with a worry that I might be going too far here with speculation. This is America, after all, and we don\u2019t do things this way. And yet in the old America we didn\u2019t close churches for Easter, or skip Christmas for fear of a virus. And so on. Yet we know now that in fact we do these things, and easily.<\/p>\n<p>Fear makes anything possible.<\/p>\n<p>And so right on cue \u2014 things are moving very fast these days \u2014\u00a0<i>The Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0has published an article by one of its regular contributors (Micheline Maynard) with one message:<\/p>\n<p>GET USED TO IT!<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get Ready for Food Rationing It was a very strange moment when this week the spokesperson for the president defended inflation as a high-class problem. She explained that higher prices are merely a sign that economic activity is picking up. People are buying things and that\u2019s good. Of course that pushes up prices, she said. 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