Posted on 10/04/2020 3:50:36 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Guessing SA has never heard of home gardens.
Venezuela had shortages in the recent past. One article featured a farmer and his wife who ran a food truck. Of course, they had a houseful of kids old enough to pull weeds and tend a backyard garden. Yet, their yard, outside some weeds, was barren. Their fridge was empty but they had some huge speakers and wires running everywhere.
When the product came back in the stores about June, our stockpile was depleted enough that we bought one small pack. By July, we were back to sales about every other week. I work in supply chain and can tell you that the main, and possibly only, reason for the PPE shortage like masks and hand sanitizer what that the government was rerouting everything to hospitals.
If you remember Radar O'Reilly on the old M*A*S*H episodes, that was me a few months ago bartering supplies our plant had in surplus with other places, including hospitals, which has more PPE than they could possibly use because the government decided to do the rationing. We made the necessary exchanges without much fuss or fanfare.
Now that Fedzilla has stepped back, it is no longer part of my job and our supply sources are cutting prices on PPE.
***Biden wants American farmers to put their farmland into Gvt land banks.***
Remember the “Soil Bank” of the 1950s? You got paid for not planing anything for ten years. I remember some of the cartoons from that time. One about a rancher as the most successful farmer because he put all his acres in the Soil Bank. The rancher, sitting on his porch, was lighting a cigar with a ten dollar bill.
I remember, around 1975, Progressive Farmer Magazine warning farmers that people in the South better prepare to grow Northern crops as THE COMING ICE AGE would stop all farming in the North.
Thirty five years later the same magazine was crying just the opposite because of Glo-Bull Warming.
Now Descending Into An Ice Age October 1, 2020
https://www.iceagenow.info/now-descending-into-an-ice-age-video/#more-33049
Each bright green dot represents a time when our orbit was the same as now.
Every time I mean, every time the orbit was similar to today, temperatures on our planet had already begun a major descent, or were about to.
Each red line represents major cooling.
You can see four times in the last 400,000 years when our planet has been even warmer than today, (so much for man-made global warming!) and many, many periods of major cooling.
I think you will soon see a fat red line (major cooling) added to the right-hand side of the graph.
Yes, I forgot about that!
What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light. It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
Ol' Amos wasn't kidding, was he?!
[Marxist socialism and state capitalism are one and the same, JFTR.]
When these plants were privatized after Deng Xiaoping ousted Mao’s hand-picked successor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Guofeng#Ousting_and_death in a coup, managers, designers, production engineers, etc, left and set up shop on their own. City and county factories went out of business as their most energetic employees and managers struck out on their own. In some cases, the tooling for the defunct enterprises was bought out by the former employees. But pretty much as soon as they started generating cash, they began importing tooling from Japan, Europe and the US.
China’s government is not at all Marxist. The cradle to grave programs that theoretically covered every single citizen are history. Medical treatment is pay as you go. Housing is whatever buyers can afford. Jobs are whatever they can find in the classifieds. Food is whatever they can buy after paying rent, utilities, school fees, car payments with the cash salaries they receive from the employers at the privately-owned companies where they work.
The closest thing to China’s government today is the very Nationalist government that the Communist Party overthrew. Except the Communist dictatorship is, in many ways, more oppressive than the Nationalists ever were. Basically, the Chinese endured 70+ years of suffering since the Communist victory just to end up with a less-developed and more oppressive version of the Nationalist Party. The cognitive dissonance between the self-congratulatory propaganda of the party and the dreary reality will eventually catch up with the Party. In time, something like Yeltsin’s (himself almost a member of the Politburo) coup against Gorbachev will become a possibility.
Yup. The ethanol thing is disgusting. We subsidize farmers with tax dollars to grow fuel instead of letting them grow food.
[Marxist socialism and state capitalism are one and the same, JFTR.]
Im not so concerned that there are going to be actual shortages, as much as I am concerned about the panic buying caused shortages.
Because the long and short of it is, it doesnt matter what the cause of the shortage is, what matters is that it exists and that things you need/want are no longer available.
From the Amazon description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the worlds most ruthless and secretive dictatorships and the story of one womans terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.
As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her country could not be, as she had been told the best on the planet?
Aged seventeen, she decided to escape North Korea. She could not have imagined that it would be twelve years before she was reunited with her family.
Her TED talk presentation on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdxPCeWw75k
More presentations here:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hyeonseo+lee+ted+talk
In all probability, the proletarian revolution will transform existing society gradually and will be able to abolish private property only when the means of production are available in sufficient quantity.Even nationalism does not stop them from being Marxist; certainly Hitler himself admitted that national socialism is Marxist at its core. A Marxist state is not defined by somehow succeeding at achieving Marxs imaginary society of association or seemingly being further along in implementing the list of planks laid out in the Manifesto.
The Principles of Communism
Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Fifth plank of communism
As far as I know vegetable cans are steel.
That’s what my magnet tells me.
There very well may be a vegetable can shortage, but it’s not because of aluminum.
They have a "tin" coating which is becoming more expensive and somewhat scarcer than in the past.
[They are Marxist.
In all probability, the proletarian revolution will transform existing society gradually and will be able to abolish private property only when the means of production are available in sufficient quantity.
The Principles of Communism
Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Fifth plank of communism
Even nationalism does not stop them from being Marxist; certainly Hitler himself admitted that national socialism is Marxist at its core. A Marxist state is not defined by somehow succeeding at achieving Marxs imaginary society of association or seemingly being further along in implementing the list of planks laid out in the Manifesto. ]
This is one of the effects of shutdowns. Food doesn’t grow in the cupboard, or even in the grocery store.
Yes. Still no Lysol spray. And the other thing is why can we not get Libbys pumpkin anywhere. Cant even get it online.
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