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Posted on 08/22/2014 4:06:00 PM PDT by Ben Mugged
Fingerprint scanning to be used to fight food shortages made worse by hoarding and smuggling to neighboring countries.
Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, plans to introduce a compulsory "biometric card" designed to limit individuals' food purchases using a fingerprint scanner.
The move, announced on Wednesday, is part of the government's latest effort to fight the oil-rich nation's chronic food shortages, which it claims result from hoarding by speculators, who resell goods at a profit, and from smuggling into neighbouring countries.
This will be the second time the government has introduced a fingerprint-based system to track and limit food purchases. Earlier this year, Venezuelans were encouraged to sign up voluntarily for a similar system to be used in government-run shops, promising to end scarcity of basic food stuffs and ease the queues outside grocery stores. But this Secure Supply Card failed to survive beyond the trial phase.
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They should try the free market.
Its going to be very interesting to see how the socialists use modern technology to further enslave their populations.
They keep this up and Democrats will start getting jealous to do the same thing here.
Price controls and rationing inevitably lead to shortages.
A true Socialist/Communist state .... smuggling gold, diamonds, money .... nope something even more precious .... food!
Meanwhile, here in America, the American Farmer produces mountains of food.
He produces so much food that we have the greatest variety of food anyone has ever had to eat, and at the lowest prices in the entire history of the world.
He produces so much corn that we can BURN a lot of it to power our cars and heat our homes, and still have mountains of surplus corn.
America should, too...
Well ok. America comes closer. If Honduras knocked off most of their monkey business, not even all of it, their market would rebound.
ok, venezuela
A lot of it is subsidized, another long run evil.
But if they let their markets be free, they’d have a better overall market picture.
It is subsidized, but most people don’t understand the underlying reason, although you touched on it.
Here it is in of briefest of terms.
Politicians don’t want people complaining about one of their very basic needs, food. The Cheap Food For Consumers program began decades ago under the general term The Farm Program.
It’s objective is to guide the production of cheap and plentiful food through the use of incentives and coercion of farmers.
Until the advent of ethanol, it was wildly successful, keeping plates full of high quality, cheap food. Farmers remained relatively poor.
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