Let Them Eat Chicken!

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Charles Goyette

“[T]he St. Louis Fed offers us YouTube videos on How to Pay Down Credit Card Debt, and Budgeting 101 (‘Making a budget is like planning a road trip for your personal finances’). The self-described ‘very stable genius’ in the White House was not able to contemplate that his elective war on Iran would see the Strait of Hormuz shut down and America’s security umbrella over the Persian Gulf states get pummeled. Which falls into the category of their business. Yet his administration explains to us how to do our grocery shopping. Which falls into the category of our business. It is arrogant, presumptuous, and insulting. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins offered the latest installment recently. Confronted with complaints about soaring beef prices, Rollins had a straightforward solution: ‘If beef is too expensive…you can eat chicken, pork, salmon, eggs.’ Or cake?” (10/06/260

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/let-them-eat-chicken/