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Chicken for diapers: Bartering abounds in scarcity-stricken Venezuela(hugo legacy)
miamiherald.com ^ | 12/1/2015 | JIM WYSS

Posted on 12/02/2015 8:43:21 AM PST by rktman

Maria, 24, a reseller who asked for anonymity because re-selling is illegal, said stores in her neighborhood of central Caracas are adapting to the new buying habits by offering baskets of random bundled goods at a fixed price designed to be swapped on the secondary market.

The government quit releasing its monthly “scarcity index” at the beginning of 2014, when the rate hit 22 percent. But since then, analysts and shoppers say the problems only have gotten worse. Polls suggest that shortages are now the country’s top concern.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: commies
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But, but, but hugo said............ I hear his daughter is livin' pretty high on the hog though so at least not EVERYBODY is suffering. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you? I mean after all, didn't the lyin' king just apologize for our outrageous consumerism here in the U.S. that's causing a global malaise?
1 posted on 12/02/2015 8:43:21 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman
Is that brimstone I smell?
2 posted on 12/02/2015 8:44:36 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steely Tom

Well, I was going to make a comment about sulfur.


3 posted on 12/02/2015 8:45:54 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Yet they will ‘vote’ the bastards back in............................It’s not the count of the votes, it’s who ‘counts’ the votes that counts................


4 posted on 12/02/2015 8:46:42 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Steely Tom

No, it’s the smell of poverty: Rotting garbage, burning old tires and flies, fleas and skeletal dogs....................


5 posted on 12/02/2015 8:48:06 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

Sounds like home...........promises, promises, promises. Delivery? Not so much.


6 posted on 12/02/2015 8:49:04 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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I’m reading a book, “EMP,” about people getting by in rural Indiana following a massive solar electro-magnetic pulse event. Bank accounts are gone. Money is worthless. Bartering is everything.


7 posted on 12/02/2015 8:50:51 AM PST by citizen (A government governed by acronym agencies is dangerous to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness)
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To: citizen

Most of the karduchian in tune folks have NO idea just how vulnerable we are. Now, back to climate change and the challenge of overcoming it. (Snarkastic remark) :>)


8 posted on 12/02/2015 8:59:44 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Take advantage of the buyers market for Venezuelan mail order brides.

9 posted on 12/02/2015 9:04:53 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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Mrs. rktman declined to accept. :>)


10 posted on 12/02/2015 9:07:11 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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It’s what liberals do...............all over the world........................


11 posted on 12/02/2015 9:12:05 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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'Well, Venezuela didn't do socialism right, we'll get it right this time because we're the ones we've been waiting for.'

~Barack Hussein 0bama...(ummmm...ummmm...ummmmmmm)

12 posted on 12/02/2015 9:12:08 AM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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But..but...has the chocolate ration been affected?


13 posted on 12/02/2015 9:14:00 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Are the women in Venezuela so stupid that they can’t figure out that they can buy cloth diapers,and launder them,the way women did for centuries.

Amazing.

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14 posted on 12/02/2015 9:17:16 AM PST by Mears
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President Nicolás Maduro has blamed opposition sabotage and international pressure for the crisis.

Wreckers and saboteurs, comrades! Uh...haven't we heard this one before?

15 posted on 12/02/2015 9:18:49 AM PST by Billthedrill
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Ouch. Who else remembers those ammonia filled diaper pails? I don’t think any of our kids felt the touch of pampers or whatever. Now I may end up in grampers but.............


16 posted on 12/02/2015 9:23:46 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Bartering is also a good idea in our economy. I used to trade regularly with the Liquor Man. He would trade bottles of Grey Goose Vodka for most anything I picked up with coupons. Like aspirin or face moisterizing creams. The Liquor Man had other stuff for barter but I couldn't use more than one of his air hockey tables so I stuck with the Grey Goose. Then I would either drink the Grey Goose or trade for goods and/or services that I needed like carpentry work from a carpenter who was nuts for Grey Goose.

Unfortunately the Liquor Man is now in jail. Not for bartering liquor but on an unrelated murder charge. Since it wasn't first degree murder, I hope you gets out soon (he's already served about 3 years) so I can score more of that Grey Goose. Great stuff!

17 posted on 12/02/2015 9:30:31 AM PST by PJ-Comix (DUmmie Skinner: Bought & Paid For By Hillary)
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I am taking up a collection of used sandpaper to be sent to our fellow humanoids in Venezuela to offset their toilet paper crisis.

Just trying...to do...my...part...

WHAT?

:-)

18 posted on 12/02/2015 9:55:40 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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Exactly. My kids were just fine in cloth diapers. I allowed myself the luxury of disposable diapers when we went camping.


19 posted on 12/02/2015 9:57:41 AM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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Well, that’s better than sending them used toilet paper.


20 posted on 12/02/2015 10:29:51 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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