Here's a funny, for the day...
Good dog! Obviously not a liberal....
Posted on 08/31/2015 6:28:13 PM PDT by Kartographer
An 80-year-old Venezuelan woman died, possibly from trampling, in a scrum outside a state supermarket selling subsidized goods, the opposition and media said on Friday. The melee at the store in Sabaneta, the birthplace of former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, was the latest such incident in the South American nation where economic hardship and food shortages are creating long queues and scuffles.
The opposition Democratic Unity coalition said Maria Aguirre died and another 75 people were injured – including five security officials – in chaotic scenes when National Guard troops sought to control a 5,000-strong crowd with teargas.
“Due to the shortage of food … the desperation is enormous,” local opposition politician Andres Camejo said, according to the coalition’s website. It published a photo of an elderly woman’s body lying inert on a concrete floor.
Camejo said thieves had also attacked the crowd, members of which were seeking to buy cheap food on offer at an outlet of the state’s Mercal supermarket chain in Barinas state.
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The State has only your best interests in mind.
Preppers’ PING! SHTF-In-Progress
In socialist societies, people wait to buy bread. In capitalist societies, the bread waits for people.
Reminds me of shopping in the Soviet Union.
Buy gold. It’s very filling.
Wow.
You mean to say good intentioned socialists can’t repeal the laws of economics? I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!
They voted for this guy, right?
Later
Coming soon to the U.S.of A. under Bernie, Joe or Hillary. (Obama probably wetting his pants with excitement about this one, “Oh, if only I could run for a 3rd term. I know I could pull this off right here.”)
If the SHTF, I don’t have any gold.
But I DO have a couple cases of beans!
Actually, then I got even more beans...
You know whut I mean...
;-)
I am put in mind of what I know about Argentina under Juanita Peron. Riches for the insiders, power for the elites, pablum and faux-concern for the poor...and the bottom drops out.
There was an election. The people who counted the votes published assertions that the guy in charge had the most votes.
Did a majority of the Venezuelan people actually vote for him? God only (or possibly God and someone in their electoral bureaucracy if the secretly kept an honest count) knows.
Here's a funny, for the day...
Good dog! Obviously not a liberal....
Great observation quote. Hope others pick up on it.
Try: In socialist societies there is very little bread and no brand choice. In capitalist societies, they give you a page long list of brands to chose from.
Forgot to add: In North Korea, the people ask “What is bread”?
If the SHTF, I don’t have any gold.
But I DO have a couple cases of beans!
Actually, then I got even more beans...
You know whut I mean...
;-)
Beans are perfect, cheap protein. Get spices too: cheap, keep well, make a diet of beans tolerable.
Jorge Ramos thinks Venezuela is great! He’s the Mexican Qalter Cronkite, ya know. CNN sez.
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