There's a shortage of maths teachers, of course, which rations the good teaching that we need to turn out mathematicians.
How would you choose to ration those dollars?
When you add living expenses and the necessary booze budget to the mix, you usually end up with a slanted apartment kept together with steel wool and crazy glue while you ration those canned goods and ramen noodles your mom got you last summer at Costco.
It has raised a few customs duties and minor taxes, and mooted plans to ration some subsidised goods, perhaps as soon as June.
The nearest Mr Herman gets to suggesting anyone taking advantage of the disaster is when he speculates that a black economy in rationed goods may rise up.
He enjoyed luxuries, and had access to rationed goods like alcohol, chocolate, silk stockings and cigarettes, which was what initially attracted her.
Mr Gove says the existing system needed to change because it "rationed good schools" and with wealthier families able to go private or move house, "the poorest are often left with the worst schools".
Tying health care insurance to employment is a relic of World War II tax policies designed to hold down cash wages when the need for military production meant limiting, even rationing, consumer goods like sugar and gasoline.
After five decades of rationing basic goods for Cubans, President Raul Castro's communist government is phasing out subsidised foodstuffs as it opens the island's economy to private enterprise.
He argued that disequilibrium in the labor and goods markets could lead to rationing of goods and labor, leading to unemployment.
In wartime, governments have assumed control over entire industries and have subjected the work force to military direction in addition to rationing goods and regulating prices.
