SO then you agree Climate change scientist are just supporting their own theory as well? To the point, who created the shortages during World War II? The government.
Don't ever put words into my mouth. If you want to make a comment on global warming, go to the AGW thread and make one. I'll be happy to address it.
and what did they intend to do? the same thing they mean to do now? if not, then arent you speaking of them working in an entirely different context than i meant? keep in mind that in wartime the economic goals are often the opposite or peacetime goals. you dont want consumers being happy and consuming goods or building new houses for themselves. you want people to sacrifice and have almost nothing, so that a huge central governmnent can take everything and send it to the war effort. so if price controls worke to accomplish those goals (they didnt) then isnt that an exmaple of them accomplishing something totally undesirable in peacetime, something i wasnt discussinng. if i said motorcycles never work to cross the pacific ocean would you say they actually do because you can sell them for a plane ticket? and in that case it would be true that the motorcycle was useful but totally outside the realm of the discussion.
Price controls were lifted after the war. But under price controls, people were successfully fed, housed, provided jobs, and price gouging and war profiteering was eliminated.
did the price controls help accomplish those goals or did those things happen in spite of them? how so? people were fed and house and all that and there was a war happening. do you believe the war caused those people to be fed and therefore wars are great and they "work"? why not? those things happened at the same time. how do we know the war didnt cause the people to be fed and housed. shoud we start a war?
They were intended to address a crisis. Cities enact rent controls also to address a housing crisis. You begin to see the logical hazard in using terms like "never" when you really mean "rarely", "theoretically", or "commonly". It makes your rash statements subject to successful challenges by people who have never read a book or ever learned anything . . . speaking of foolish statements.
Of course, and they were successfully addressed by rationing, raising taxes, AND implementing price controls.
