[uglybiker]

Pay particular attention to the comment made at the 2 minute mark.

[Dr. Ursus]

Timothy G. on line one!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Woo hoo! Zimbabwe might make the Guinness book of records! You go Mugabe!

[RobRoy]

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.

[BGHater]

Scores of Zimbabwe farms 'seized'

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

[piytar]

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...

[sportutegrl]

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

[I_Like_Spam]

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.

[piytar]

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...

[piytar]

Oh CRUD: I conflated Chavez/Venezuala with Mugabe/Zimbabwe. Ooops. Apologies to the thread!

[TFMcGuire]

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.

[NoMarxist2010]

Obama is trying to help Mugabe, by seeing if OUR INFLATION RATE could top his rate. Buy GOLD!!!

[DB]

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.

[MNDude]

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?

[bill1952]

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..

[villagerjoel]

I wish I could be a dictator. It would be so easy to make Zimbabwae into a Hong Kong of the world. :(