Remember when they were known for becoming Miss Universe finalists or winners?
Posted on 09/25/2017 1:31:54 PM PDT by grundle
Edited on 09/25/2017 1:32:32 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Exactly. Way back in 2003 when I read that Chavez had started imposing price controls on food, I knew that in the long run, this would be the outcome. Because that's what always ends up happening in the long run when a country imposes price controls on food.
It would be. Unfortunately, the actions of any particular individual do not make the difference between starving or not starving. Those millions of decisions that are made by the "collective" result in a system of helplessness.
In the early Soviet era the actual incentive was that one would be shot if one failed to work on a collective farm or wherever the central planners thought you should work.
I have always appreciated the picture of empty Soviet store shelves and people lined up to buy bread next to a picture of the bakery section of a typical American supermarket. The caption reads something like, "In socialism people wait for bread. In capitalism bread waits for people."
One of my neighbors periodically fills the back of her pickup with "day old" bread products from several local businesses. She feeds this to her sheep. People in the U.S. today have to work pretty hard to stay in poverty.
They have to ignore their opportunity to get an education, have children out of wedlock, use addictive drugs, or engage in some other self-defeating behavior.
>>Without the machine guns and barbed wire to imprison the people
http://www.vivaproject.ca/vanuatu.html
>>I have always appreciated the picture of empty Soviet store shelves
And the fact they had to build a wall to keep their human cattle - IN.
Remember when they were known for becoming Miss Universe finalists or winners?
Are you saying that Steve Harvey’s “mistake” was a Freudian slip?
Oh My.... Unbelievable!
I likes my hos to be edumacated.
Okay
I’m moving South!
Just bring suitcases of food and you make lots of friends.
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