[Clive]

I’ll start posting the ones that I missed while I was away

[DH]

“However she got in her situation it is interesting to note how others who see whats going on in the country say how bad it is - and then vote to take themselves down the same path.”

You mean....like the ones who are going to vote of Obama?

[Billthedrill]

Clive, great to see you back. Having just embarked on a re-flooring project myself I have to say you made the correct decision. Old carpet is particularly nasty (I mean, what? It's almost as if it's been sitting on the floor all these years...)

Zim has, according to Ms. Buckle, approximately one-third of the acreage under cultivation necessary to feed the country. The good news is that the stable is maize; the bad is that our own surplus is still being pumped into automobile and truck fuel tanks. No seed, no crops.

Any country with 231 million percent inflation no longer has a functioning economy in any normal sense. Barter and the black market must fill the gaps (I note references to American dollars cropping up with increasing regularity) - but you have to have something to sell in the first place. If that has to come from abroad, the problem never goes away, especially if it comes for free.