YES WE HAVE NO BANANAS

FRED:
Why so many bananas?

MAC:
Because that’s all that‘s left.

FRED:
Left of what?

MAC:
Left of center…right in the middle…right of center...bananas…that’s all that’s left. The economy is almost gone.

FRED:
Gone where?

MAC:
The economy or the bananas?

FRED:
Both.

MAC:
They’ve gone to pot.

FRED:
Again…why so many bananas?

MAC:
It’s just a figure of speech that I’ve used.

FRED:
Well, I see a country where millions are losing their jobs, and there AREN’T THAT MANY BANANAS.

MAC:
We’re on the same page.

FRED:
Or peel.

MAC:
True. And the rich are still getting richer---and the poor are still getting poorer.

FRED:
It’s high-time that we legalized pot and taxed it.


MAC:
Now you’ve gone BANANAS!

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Banana Republic is a pejorative term for a country that is politically unstable, dependent on limited agriculture (e.g. bananas), and ruled by a small, self-elected, wealthy, and corrupt clique.^[1] It is most commonly used for countries in Central America such as El Salvador, Belize, Grenada, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala, as well as countries in Eastern Europe.

In some cases, these nations have kept the government structures that were modeled after the colonial Spanish ruling clique, with a small, largely leisure class on the top, and a large, poorly educated and poorly paid working class of peons, though it might have the (fake) trappings of modernity (such as styling itself a republic with a president etc.)

Frequently the subject of mockery and humour, and usually presided over by a dictatorial military junta that exaggerates its own power and importance—"the epaulettes of a banana republic generalissimo" are proverbially of considerable size, usually portrayed in satire with a pair of mops—a banana republic also typically has large wealth inequities, poor infrastructure, poor schools, a "backward" economy, low capital spending, a reliance on foreign capital and money printing, budget deficits, and a weakening currency. Banana republics are typically also highly prone to revolutions and coups.