Food Rationing in Socialist Venezuela Leads to Mob Fighting Over Milk

frontpagemag.com ^ | february 11, 2014 | daniel greenfield

[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.

[Pajamajan]

Oh Yeah! Now that I have been freed from the need to work, by "Dear Leader" and the democrat party-
I can't hardly wait to spend my new found free time standing in line at the government store -for hours-
so I can get my one can of milk,
and spying on my neighbors to make sure they don't get 2 cans of milk.

What fun it will all be when the socialist dream is realized here....Yipeeeee!

[Pajamajan]

IN-CASE-ANYONE-MISSED-IT BUMP

Here is an example of what happens to your country when you keep voting democrat/leftist.