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Food Rationing in Socialist Venezuela Leads to Mob Fighting Over Milk
frontpagemag.com ^ | february 11, 2014 | daniel greenfield

Posted on 02/11/2014 11:38:19 AM PST by lowbridge

Last week, we were walking near a Bicentenario (large, government-run markets offering products at reasonable or “friendly” prices) and saw a number of people walk out with cans of milk.

“Hey, look!” said my partner, who’s always on the lookout for these kinds of things, as though she were the one from Cuba.

When we went inside the market, we were somewhat disappointed: there wasn’t a single can of milk left on the shelves, even though purchases are restricted to one can per person.

Someone said to us: “Stay close to the chekout counters. When one person tries to buy two cans, they take one away from them and you can have one of those.”

Team work is always more productive, so I stood in line to buy something while my partner went out to hunt, that is, to stand by the check-outs to see if some unfortunate soul was forced to part with one of their cans of milk.

It took nearly two hours to get to the check-out counter and, during this time, I was able to see and hear a bit of everything.

Standing in line ahead of me was an elderly gentleman who had left his home early in the morning to go shopping at the opposite end of Caracas and had to walk a very long distance to get his hands on some milk for his granddaughter (the child’s father could not take on such a journey, for he was bed-ridden, recovering from a gunshot wound).

While we were talking, a man arrived, stuck his hand into a pile of bags of bread on a shelf and “found” a can of milk. He darted off with it, in the direction of a check-out.

The people in line immediately reacted.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foodfights; foodrationing; socialism; venezuela
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The State Government has been dictating the retail price of milk in Pennsylvania since 1934! There are stories of people who have been pulled over and had their vehicles impounded for bringing in cheaper bootleg milk from Ohio.

Precisely my point.

61 posted on 02/11/2014 1:15:55 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: marron; lowbridge
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”-Abraham Lincoln

62 posted on 02/11/2014 1:26:22 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: Kartographer

They shouldn’t fight over milk; their acne will probably clear up some without it.


63 posted on 02/11/2014 1:52:12 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Colorado: the Maryland of the Mountain West)
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To: JPG

Actually, this time round, they voted for Chavez’s successor, the commie bus driver. Same difference, really.


64 posted on 02/11/2014 1:53:26 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Colorado: the Maryland of the Mountain West)
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To: lowbridge
Hey Sean Penn...isn't your boy Hugo's (may he burn in Hell) "paradise" a great place? Yeah buddy...I'm sure a Socialist like you is just itchin' to get down there and bask in the warmth and light that is Communist Venezuela.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

65 posted on 02/11/2014 2:32:10 PM PST by wku man (We are the 53%! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXN0GDuLN4)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Muy graphico.

I used Google Translate to read a about 30 of the comments on that page.

Many of the comments concerned the authenticity of the pictures. Most of the comments (more than half) claimed that the images in the story were from past demonstrations, presumably that took place during Chavez. They angrily demand that the publishers of the newspaper stop lying by means of the images they use.

One accused the Government of mortgaging Venezuela to the Chinese.

One lamented that the Federal Police only attack like that when they know their opponents are unarmed. I thought that one was particularly interesting.

Several were prayers for the deliverance of Venezuela from the evil that has consumed it.

66 posted on 02/11/2014 2:58:54 PM PST by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Steely Tom

Wow, the similarities between Venezuela and the US are alarming.

Their press lies to them too. Their government is also mortgaging the country to the Chinese. And we Americans also pray that we be delivered from the evil government that has consumed us.

Lucky for us, our federales are not (yet) shooting unarmed citizens in the streets. Shooting our dogs? Well yeah. But not us.

Not yet anyway.


67 posted on 02/11/2014 3:14:10 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: dfwgator
They have achieved True Communism.

A wealthy ruling class while everyone else suffers equally.

68 posted on 02/11/2014 3:18:29 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

No wonder that Comrade Obama and his Communist flying monkeys want to disarm the American people. If we gave up our guns, they would shoot us in the streets with impunity also. A showdown is coming.


69 posted on 02/11/2014 3:20:17 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yes there are price controls on various products in the US.

Is it your contention those controls and situation are exactly the same as what is happening in Venezuela?


70 posted on 02/11/2014 4:22:45 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

“When toilet paper has become a luxury good you will have achieved socialism.”


71 posted on 02/11/2014 6:53:43 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: lowbridge

The problem in Venezuela isn’t socialism itself, but how they implemented it.


72 posted on 02/11/2014 7:11:34 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: driftdiver

Make that will we ever have another non-stolen election in this country.


73 posted on 02/11/2014 9:10:52 PM PST by bgill
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To: 1010RD

Yeah that’s always the excuse.


74 posted on 02/12/2014 4:10:17 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: lowbridge

Let them eat cake!


75 posted on 02/12/2014 9:11:25 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: GeronL

“A Venezuelan blogger recently said starvation was a month away”

It might seem like starvation to the poor hungry individual. But the ruling elite will sell it as a premium diet plan for the masses!


76 posted on 02/12/2014 10:43:10 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: CSM

just like Family Values Funemployment and Staycations here are


77 posted on 02/12/2014 10:45:26 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: GeronL

Good one!


78 posted on 02/12/2014 11:39:03 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Marcella

I have plenty of powdered in number 10 cans. I also keep some of the instant on hand, but I find that the powdered has a better taste.

I use it for cooking, and when we run out, I can drink it just fine. All of my milk products I bought for 3 bucks a gallon. Milk is now 3.89 per gallon.


79 posted on 02/12/2014 10:11:29 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes

“I have plenty of powdered in number 10 cans.”

Mine is the same, powdered in number 10 cans.


80 posted on 02/12/2014 10:14:14 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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