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Rich Eating Well in Venezuela, Basque Executive Shows
Venezuela Analysis ^ | May 31, 2016 | teleSUR English

Posted on 06/01/2016 1:14:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 06/01/2016 1:14:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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some animals are more equal than others


2 posted on 06/01/2016 1:15:39 PM PDT by BBell
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Food tends to go to where money is.


3 posted on 06/01/2016 1:20:18 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Yeah, well good luck with that and all Augustin Otxotorena.
Kind of difficult to maintain any kind of lifestyle when hordes of angry/starving people are rampaging.


4 posted on 06/01/2016 1:20:58 PM PDT by Blue Jays
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Analysis: We need more socialism.

Actually, analysis is probably not the right word for what they are doing.


5 posted on 06/01/2016 1:21:14 PM PDT by BeauBo
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
6 posted on 06/01/2016 1:21:25 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are.


7 posted on 06/01/2016 1:22:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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No water? Let them drink champagne..... /s


8 posted on 06/01/2016 1:23:59 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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Hilarious article showing how Maduro’s super-elite live in Venezuela, while blaming Maduro opposition forces for being the ones responsible for the corruption that allows them to live that way.

These kinds of insane “explanations” are so typical amongst the elites in 3rd world shitholes, who apparently believe they are far more clever than everyone else, and everybody else is stupid enough to believe their nonsense.


9 posted on 06/01/2016 1:24:55 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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"...Food tends to go to where money is..."


So do increasingly violent mobs of starving people who wish to eat.
There isn't enough firepower in the region when enough people are rioting.


10 posted on 06/01/2016 1:26:09 PM PDT by Blue Jays
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He gets it that Venezuela’s socialist system is failing and corrupt, and he still can’t bring himself to blame the Chavists.

Of course if he did publicly, he’d be out of business in a heartbeat.

Socialists are monarchists at heart. Socialism always requires an oligarchy, and the only thing that keeps it from grinding to a halt is what I call “survival corruption”. Corruption is simultaneously made both possible by the system, and necessary for it to work.


11 posted on 06/01/2016 1:26:49 PM PDT by marron
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The official value of the Bolivar is about two hundred times the implied value. So anyone who can deal in dollars can afford what they want. My guess is that certain upscale stores are unofficially allowed to deal in dollars. (In Cuba, certain aristocratic stores are officially allowed to deal in Convertible Pesos.)


12 posted on 06/01/2016 1:26:56 PM PDT by dangus
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We sold toilet paper to Venezuela last year. We sold bundle packs of 48 rolls in 4 inside packs of 12. We sold the bundles for about a dollar over our total cost to manufacture. In all about 4.5 million rolls of toilet paper.

Well, I got emails showing the product on store shelves broken down out of the bundle pack and in the single 12 packs. Each 12 pack was $38.00 US dollars retailing out in their stores. The entire 48 bundle we sold to them was less than $10 each. So they were marking it up over 1000% for retail sale.

Isn't socialism nice?

13 posted on 06/01/2016 1:27:27 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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“some animals are more equal than others”

So it has been, and so it shall be.....

The low end of the gene pool reproduces MUCH faster than the higher end which has improved mankind...Dunning Kruger effect lets low end think they ‘did it.’


14 posted on 06/01/2016 1:28:08 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long)
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‘He explained that large retail chains such as Makro, Excelsior Gama or Plaza’s have their own import mechanisms, “They import directly and work with the strongest private importers.”’

Translation: they work in dollars.


15 posted on 06/01/2016 1:28:11 PM PDT by dangus
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So he blames the opposition for the government’s failed policies.


16 posted on 06/01/2016 1:28:35 PM PDT by PAR35
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This is what Obama and Bernie and Hillary want for the USA.


17 posted on 06/01/2016 1:29:58 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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The New Class - an Analysis of the Communist System - Milovan Djilas.

Written in 1957. You want to know why this happens? This is why this happens. The book bought Djilas seven years in prison but he lived to have the last laugh.

18 posted on 06/01/2016 1:30:47 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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I was thinking of buying some old rewinders and log saws to convert bath tissue in Venezuela. Just import parent rolls of 2,500 pounds each and rewind them on cores and slice them into rolls. Then paper overwrap them. Sell them in singles.

Then I was told their government would not allow it. Amazing!

19 posted on 06/01/2016 1:32:04 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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Hmmmm...I can afford to vacation there...all I need is a few cases of Charmin to barter and I’m good to go!


20 posted on 06/01/2016 1:33:41 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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