Posted on 07/22/2015 8:31:43 AM PDT by C19fan
Venezuela's embattled government has taken the drastic step of forcing food producers to sell their produce to the state, in a bid to counter the ever-worsening shortages. Farmers and manufacturers who produce milk, pasta, oil, rice, sugar and flour have been told to supply between 30 per cent and 100 per cent of their products to the state stores. Shortages, rationing and queues outside supermarkets have become a way of life for Venezuelans, as their isolated country battles against rigid currency controls and a shortage of US dollars – making it difficult for Venezuelans to find imported goods.
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Coming to a city near you.
"Gringo"...
Coming to a country near you.
When congress passes the monsanto-ADM-DuPont protection act, all farms in the US will be basically owned by three companies.
And don’t even bother fighting it, because these cronies have the best politicians, lawyers, and courts that money can buy.
And no, this has nothing to do with GMO disputes, and everything to do with the corporate-government takeover of US agriculture.
Control the food, control the people. Starvation is a powerful weapon.
PA Turnpike plazas have Sunoco.
Famine will be the next stage of the Venezuelan march to socialist Paradise.
A real tragedy. I have yet to meet a Venezuelan whom I did not like personally.
““When toilet paper is a luxury good you have achieved socialism.””
Post of the day!
““When toilet paper is a luxury good you have achieved socialism.””
Post of the day!
Bump
And fetch a beverage! Confiscating your food supply is thirsty work! Thanks C19fan.
I don't care who they are, that's funny right there...
Like all "share the wealth programs", all they really share is the poverty.
“When toilet paper is a luxury good you have achieved socialism.”
Many years ago, I determined the best way to evaluate a country’s standard of living was to evaluate their toilet paper. I discovered this method after I made my first trip overseas. The toilet paper in that country was like bendable wood, extremely coarse. I kept some of that toilet paper.
After that first trip and keeping a piece of that first toilet paper, I started a toilet paper collection of every country where I traveled. I also carried American toilet paper with me after that first trip.
The results of the toilet paper test is this:
1. The more coarse the paper, the worse the country economy is.
2. Looking in their grocery store, the number of brands of toilet paper determines the economic wealth of the country. Don’t live in or invest in, countries with less than three types of toilet paper.
3. As of right now, American has the best economy, the highest standard of living, due to many types of toilet paper. No country has as many types as America.
4. If the types of toilet paper starts going down in America, you will know our economy is sinking, our standard of living is going down.
See my post 73 about toilet paper and standard of living.
Buttress that with the stories we heard from Soviet Russia, about the bread lines, the grocery lines - we had the TP lines as well.
Thank God they do. Maine Turnpike uses Citgo, and Florida’s Turnpike used to use them, but I think they changed brands because of . . . you guessed it . . . the association with Hugo Chavez.
I’m pleasantly amazed that the People’s Socialist Republic of Maryland does not use Citgo on the Kennedy Highway (I-95).
It happened in the Ukraine.
In 1932. It was called the Holodomor. Millions died.
My grandfather fled the country and that is why I am here today.
Who here is sounding the Horn-call of Buckland?
And who will respond?
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