As an economics professor I would describe the production of goods and services.
Now I realize that description is one shortage.
I remember going into a number of People’s Peace Loving Democratic Republics.
One of the tours there was often a place that looked like a condemned warehouse.
But it wasn’t a warehouse.
Honestly, if a store had a warehouse in that shape they wouldn’t let the public see it.
I forgot to mention that on the way in, I had gone through the familiar line of barbed wire, land mines and armed men that stand at the border of every people loving democratic republic.
No, it wasn’t a warehouse, it was a STORE.
It had some watches.
“Did the watches WORK, Uncle Bob, did the watches tell TIME?” No children, the watches did not work.
And the tobacco poured out when you took a cigarette out of the pack.
The machines in the store didn’t work and you couldn’t get coal miner into those clothes.
That’s why they had troops on the border to keep people inside where the people couldn’t buy anywhere else.
One group behind the iron curtain produced goods.
The iron curtain itself produced shortages. That is what armed men do.
The Armed Men produced shortages
In the Red countries the goods were ugly and shoddy and useless.
They showed Mommy Professor’s Dream Economy in ACTION.
Not all of those who dedicate their lives go to shoddy production, shoddy out put is the high point of Soviet Mommy Professor planning.
You still need large numbers of troops in uniforms who are willing to kill.
It is the duty of this latter group to provide a consumer who will praise the goods.
These are not difficult requirements.
And the Quota, in EACH category, MUST be met!
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