has hit the fan!
Posted on 05/16/2013 6:11:14 AM PDT by grundle
First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities – toilet paper.
Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, as it does for other shortages, the government says it will import 50m rolls to boost supplies.
One supermarket visited by the Associated Press in the capital on Wednesday was out of toilet paper. Another had just received a fresh batch, and it quickly filled up with shoppers as the word spread.
"I've been looking for it for two weeks," said Cristina Ramos. "I was told that they had some here and now I'm in line."
Economists say Venezuela's shortages stem from price controls meant to make basic goods available to the poorest parts of society and the government's controls on foreign currency.
"State-controlled prices – prices that are set below market-clearing price – always result in shortages. The shortage problem will only get worse, as it did over the years in the Soviet Union," said Steve Hanke, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University.
President Nicolás Maduro, who was selected by the dying Hugo Chávez to carry on his "Bolivarian revolution", claims that anti-government forces, including the private sector, are causing the shortages in an effort to destabilise the country.
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has hit the fan!
The peasants are revolting.
LOL!
Ya think?
But can the residents of the people’s paradise of Venezuela buy ammo?
We did and it works out pretty good ....
The police have identified a Person of Interest:
Particularly now that they're compelled to employ Sheryl Crowe's "one square per visit" rule.
Perhaps a speech from Sheryl Crow would help.
Trouble is, they can’t afford the paper to print catalogs either. As Ronald Reagan once remarked, if you put Communists in charge of the Sahara Desert, it would only be a matter of time before they had a shortage of sand.
Being fair and balanced, we offer the other side... 
of the story.
The DUers tend to have fawning admiration for Hugo Chavez and his socialist legacy in Venezuela.
So, you DU moonbats looking in... and we know you’re there... is this another example of “looking out for the people?”
The availability of TP is like the Canary in the mine. If or when TP shortages appear in the US, know that the end of the Republic is very near.
Happened in 1959 Cuba, around the Russian revolution, and probably Mao’s China as well.
Lack of TP is the warning sign that things are crumbling!
Severe shortages of toilet paper and toothpaste caused Nicaraguans to vote the Sandinistas out of power in the late 80’s.
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