Public service announcement: get ready to starve in Venezuela

daniel-venezuela.blogspot ^ | 2/7/14 | Daniel

[Kartographer]

This is a public service announcement for readers living in Venezuela: you may be running out of food within a month. I know that because I have heard through my clients and business partners that the regime has been holding reunions frantically to try to negotiate, at least with the food sectors, a minimum package so some basic stuff is produced while the regime comes up with some new cockamamie plan. The common feeling from those I spoke to is that the regime has little idea of what to do. The regime spokescreeps, in a wonderful case of military self sufficiency, went as far as suggesting casually that we should negotiate (blackmail?) with our providers to accept a cut in our debt... and have them keep sending us stuff anyway (sigh!)

[Kartographer]

In another store, some scarcities do not even bother to follow price control as imported toilet paper that arrived in small amounts is quickly sold with a "temporary" price..

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[GeronL]

that is about $48 at the official - artificial - rate

[Kartographer]

Would it just be cheaper to wipe with the money?? ;-)

[mgist]

Why is toilet paper always the first to go?

I guess you know a country by the quality of the toilet paper.

[JRandomFreeper]

Sponge on a stick. Roman style.

/johnny

[A_Former_Democrat]

Maybe Juan Pablo can help

[Paladin2]

Invite Bammy to talk with the peeps to get things straightened out.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

They work best if you dip them in turpentine before use. ;-D

[DuncanWaring]

You ever heard the expression “Faster than a turpentined cat”?

I first heard it used by my father in describing the F-104.

[dforest]

They could always scoot on the lawn like a dog. If they had snow, they would also have hemorrhoid treatment.

It is a twofer.

[FreedomPoster]

Venezuela recently had some extreme toilet paper shortages. This seems to be one of the surest signs that Socialism / Communism / Collectivism is fully “succeeding.”

[Truth29]

When does Obama start sending food aid with money we had to borrow from China?

[PA Engineer]

This because the new head of the SUNDDE is a certain Andreina Tarazon, a militant hacks of the PSUV that came to there to fame in 2007 during a certain arranged "debate" at the Nazional Assembly. In short, this woman has absolutely no experience in what it is to determine what production and sale prices should be for business. I mean, she has never held a job in her life except those political ones such as proposing that all women should breast feed for months and months, as if it were possible in Caracas to hold a job and go home twice a day to breast feed... As far as I know she is not a mother. (1)

The Fluke Syndrome. Socialism is always the same and always dangerous. Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil becomes more understandable every day.

[MSF BU]

It does not hurt to store up. Like rice, sardines and canned soup, it lasts a long, long time.

[GladesGuru]

“Sponge on a stick. Roman style.”

Dat nasty!

The Great Prophet MadMo said to use 3, 5, or 7 smooth rounded stones.

Never use 2, 4, or 6 smooth round stones - or Allah will get you.

Allah is all seeing.

Hmmn - guess Allah is a toilet stall peeper.

[publius911]

This seems to be one of the surest signs that Socialism / Communism / Collectivism is fully “succeeding.”

Does that explain the Sochi Olympics toilet debacle?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Sorry gotta go now and run to Costco to get a 12 month supply of TP.