Rationing of
Essential Consumer Commodities
Has the time come for the government
to enforce the “Rationing of Essential
Consumer Commodities”?
Just in case you have not experienced
grocery shopping recently, let me give you an insight as to what it’s like.
Huge crowds of people pushing and
shoving to grab the last case of water, cooking oil, bananas, fresh meats,
butter, milk canned meats, canned vegetables, sugar, pasta and every kind of
paper goods. Entire aisles are empty with nothing on the shelves.
Groups of people travel from store to
store repeating their havoc. Long lines of people form before the store opens
and snakes out into the parking lot. Tempers flare as late comers arrive and
refuse to go to the end of the line. They rush into the store as soon as the
doors are opened, unwilling to wait their turn.
Into this chaos are thrown our
Seniors and children. The longer this Pandemic continues, the more uncertain
the future becomes; the more chaos grows. Through no fault of their own,
Americans are being forced to compete with their neighbors for basic
commodities.
Many decades ago our nation was
fighting a world war. It was necessary for us to ration basic and scarce
commodities so that every American on the home front could have an equal chance.
This Pandemic today is being referred to by our leaders as a war. Isn’t time to
spend all of our energy fighting this Pandemic war, rather than fighting over a
roll of toilet paper?
Thank You…
The Green Winer
