Posted on 02/02/2014 12:57:53 PM PST by lowbridge
This is what turning a working country into a Socialist country leads to.
After his annual address to parliament last month, Maduro declared 2014 “the year of the ultimate triumph in the economic war,” announced a new team of economic managers and decreed a law capping business profits at 30 percent.
“You can be sure we will be inspecting everyone, sooner or later,” Maduro warned, part of the “New Economic Order” he vows to create.
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Soon word spread that the long-awaited rolls had arrived, and despite a government-imposed limit of one package per person, the checkout lines stretched all the way to the decimated dairy case in the back of the store.
“This is so depressing,” said Maria Plaza, 30, a lawyer, an hour and a half into her wait. “Pathetic.”
Pathetic, in a country with the world’s largest petroleum reserves and oil prices at nearly $95 a barrel, yet unable to supply basic goods because of its crumbling local currency and a shortage of U.S. dollars.
“Soon we’ll be using newspaper, just like they do in Cuba!” said an elderly man nearby, inching forward in line. “Yeah! Like Cuba!” others shouted.
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It depends... one side was shiny, it would not dry or absorb at all... the other side was like sandpaper. Even though it says 400 sheets on the wrapping, it was not perforated, meaning one could get a piece as long as one wanted! Just be careful not to have any creases or folds, it would really hurt. Legend has it that a famous criminal, serving a life sentence in Spain, wrote his autobiography on Elephant toilet tissue because of its durability!
I wasn’t posting to you, but thanks for adding legitimacy to my post to nickcarraway.
Amazing what misery people will put up with in order to ensure nobody gets more than their fair share
That narrow brown Bulgarian toilet paper was perforated but tore everywhere else but the perforations. And it was rarely available. Kinda like the Venezuelan thing. The socialism offers equal misery to the peons regardless of the country or continent.
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