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Zimbabwe's 'highest ever inflation' (VIDEO)
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Posted on 02/23/2009 12:47:33 PM PST by uglybiker

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1 posted on 02/23/2009 12:47:33 PM PST by uglybiker
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Timothy G. on line one!


2 posted on 02/23/2009 12:49:15 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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Woo hoo! Zimbabwe might make the Guinness book of records! You go Mugabe!
3 posted on 02/23/2009 12:50:31 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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I don’t get it. If my country’s money was inflating that much, I would stop striving for it. It would be “all barter” for me.

Maybe that IS what is happening now.


4 posted on 02/23/2009 12:51:14 PM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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Scores of Zimbabwe farms 'seized'

There are said to be about 400 white-owned farms left in Zimbabwe

5 posted on 02/23/2009 12:51:28 PM PST by BGHater (Tyranny is always better organised than freedom)
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From your article: More than half Zimbabwe's population is in need of food aid and inflation - estimated by some economists at 10 sextillion per cent - has left its currency almost worthless.

Why don't they just say a "ga-jillion" or "ba-zillion"? Almost worthless?

6 posted on 02/23/2009 12:59:57 PM PST by Clock King (Radical Conservatives, arise!)
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To: uglybiker

Chavez was a hero of the left as recent as a couple years ago: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060805101246AAm1iUz Probably still is in many places. Unfreakingbelievable...


7 posted on 02/23/2009 1:02:45 PM PST by piytar (Atlas is Shrugging. I am Atlas.)
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5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!"

Revelation 6:5-6

8 posted on 02/23/2009 1:04:58 PM PST by sportutegrl
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Zimbabwe also has a 94% unemployment rate- last month, it may have gone up since then.

The crazy thing is that most of the people still support Mugabe.


9 posted on 02/23/2009 1:08:15 PM PST by I_Like_Spam
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The idiots over on DU still by and large love Chavez: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3060221#3060230

Again, unfreakingbelievable...


10 posted on 02/23/2009 1:12:18 PM PST by piytar (Atlas is Shrugging. I am Atlas.)
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Oh CRUD: I conflated Chavez/Venezuala with Mugabe/Zimbabwe. Ooops. Apologies to the thread!


11 posted on 02/23/2009 1:13:45 PM PST by piytar (Atlas is Shrugging. I am Atlas.)
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To: uglybiker

Barry Obama is Chavez and he is Mugabe. Those failures are headed to the US unless people wake up and throw the child rulers out.


12 posted on 02/23/2009 1:20:56 PM PST by TFMcGuire (Life is tough. It is even tougher if you are stupid--John Wayne)
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Obama is trying to help Mugabe, by seeing if OUR INFLATION RATE could top his rate. Buy GOLD!!!


13 posted on 02/23/2009 1:29:36 PM PST by NoMarxist2010 (Rush: I hope he fails meant Rush wants Obama's SOCIALISTIC PROGRAMS to fail.)
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To: uglybiker

We are on the same path.

When the majority dicides it can vote to take what a minority has by force - that is by taking under the cover of law - a country enters a death spiral. The minority producers are destroyed leaving only consumers that are unable to produce enough to meet their own needs.

It is hard to believe, that is where we are currently going.


14 posted on 02/23/2009 1:39:02 PM PST by DB
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The minority producers are destroyed leaving only consumers that are unable to produce enough to meet their own needs.

You are correct!

I am scared and waiting for the Communist children in the White House to start focusing on our Nation's farms and farmers and start telling us the Government can run them in a better fashion.

I believe the ensuing starvation will be directed towards the conservative states to help the commies eliminate their opposition. It will have its own drawbacks as most of the farm states that feed us are conservative and thus the know-nothing liberals will have to be shipped to the farms to help out.

The resulting lack of knowledge and total incompetence will bring starvation in the US to a level only seen in the Ukraine and China during the heights or their revolutions.

15 posted on 02/23/2009 1:58:15 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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I looked up this issue and found this:

“National debt in Zimbabwe increased to over 100% of GDP. To finance the National Debt, the Government started printing money; but, this only devalued the value of existing money and caused prices to rise.
Mugabe blamed inflation on ‘Greedy businesses’ demanding price rises. This encouraged him to set up price controls. These have been ineffective in preventing inflation.”

Sound familiar?


16 posted on 02/23/2009 4:15:43 PM PST by MNDude
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Now that you mention it....

What's sad is that they're now using U.S. greenbacks as currency. They're in for a rude awakening soon. How long will it be until the dollar sees rampant inflation?

17 posted on 02/23/2009 4:46:50 PM PST by yooling (For the first time in my life, I'm ashamed of my country. FUBO)
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To: sportutegrl

Makes sense, Mugabe is black after all.


18 posted on 02/23/2009 4:54:58 PM PST by Niuhuru (Fine, here's my gun, but let me give you the bullets first. I'll send them to you through the barrel)
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To: uglybiker

The BBC is prevented form operating freely in Zimbabwe

I would do the same thing even if my country was solid as a rock.
Personally, I’d be inclined to hang the lot of them, but I’m sure that we would be getting reports from Hell before long..


19 posted on 02/23/2009 5:30:11 PM PST by bill1952 (McCain and the GOP were worthless)
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That’s because Mugabe is their first BLACK leader. Now WE have our first!


20 posted on 02/23/2009 7:14:27 PM PST by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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