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I Am Not Making This Up; Venezuela Bans Queues To Beat Product Shortages
Forbes ^ | January 15, 2015 | by Tim Worstall

Posted on 01/15/2015 9:32:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

There are times when a little piece of news comes in from some far flung corner of the world and it’s necessary to wonder whether one should laugh or cry about it all. So it is with this remarkable story from Venezuela. The wonders of Bolivarian Socialism are so great that governors in some parts of the country have decided to ban queuing. No, really, I promise you that I am not making this up.

Here’s the news about the queuing:

Governors in three Venezuelan states have banned overnight queuing amid huge and sometimes rowdy lines around shops across the scarcity-plagued country.

Shortages of basic consumer products from milk to toilet paper have worsened since a lull in distribution over the Christmas and New Year holidays, prompting many to wait from the early hours on foot – or in hammocks – before shops open.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communism; failure; foodshortages; marxism; queues; socialism; venezuela
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A taxi cab driver is at the wheel of the Venezuelan state.


21 posted on 01/15/2015 10:10:51 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I will not stand in a line for my TP


22 posted on 01/15/2015 10:14:26 AM PST by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Isn’t that essentially what the VA did? Bonuses depended on having short waiting lists, so they kept patients from getting in the official queue for medical services.


23 posted on 01/15/2015 10:32:22 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The only thing socialism has ever produced more of is misery.

Socialism consumes EVERYTHING.


24 posted on 01/15/2015 10:34:22 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Next, they’re going to ban eating.

And right now, at several universities in this nation, Professors are telling their students about the glories of socialism.


25 posted on 01/15/2015 10:39:09 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

this is pathetic, before long they will decide who gets access to food first by political means.


26 posted on 01/15/2015 10:57:53 AM PST by GeronL
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To: I want the USA back

Venezuela did ban price increases and they also banned companies from firing employees, even if its a foreign company no longer doing business there. InBev shut down a brewery years and years ago and is still paying the workers.


27 posted on 01/15/2015 10:59:49 AM PST by GeronL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This law has to have been proposed by someone who has all their needs provided for by the Government, has forgotten what the words empathy and compassion means. What if they do line up, will the fire hoses be turned on them? One expects this from the Red Chinese. I can imagine the future Senator Michelle Obama (get ready)proposing something like this, ridiculous and unenforceable.


28 posted on 01/15/2015 11:10:25 AM PST by lee martell
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To: I want the USA back

This is pretty much SOP for any leftist run organization -

when there are negative consequences of your policies and rules,

outlaw the consequences!


29 posted on 01/15/2015 11:12:06 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: blueunicorn6

Well, they may ban eating, but then people will be hungry.

Of course, they’ll just ban hunger.


30 posted on 01/15/2015 11:13:35 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: blueunicorn6
Next, they’re going to ban eating.

I don't see why people are opposed to this.

• Proven weight loss technique

• Prevents cruelty to animals

• Conserves resources and preserves the environment

• Reduces burden on municipal sewage systems


31 posted on 01/15/2015 11:17:55 AM PST by Colinsky
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Too bad they’ve just learned how to form queues. It’s been my experience that the rest of the Latino and Hispanic world don’t form queues: :(


32 posted on 01/15/2015 11:24:12 AM PST by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeppers, Venezuela needs to take a cue from the Fed’s Q’s.


33 posted on 01/15/2015 11:28:15 AM PST by celmak
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

no officer you can’t arrest us..... this is a line not a Q


34 posted on 01/15/2015 11:30:20 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Lexington Green
"When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved Socialism. "

BUMP

35 posted on 01/15/2015 11:30:59 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re rationing queues. I do believe we have perfect socialism here.


36 posted on 01/15/2015 11:35:50 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: KC_Lion
With that, I think I finally Understand Liberals/Progressives/Communists, they would burn this country to the ground so long as they could be Kings of the Ashes.

That's a great line, and TRUE!

37 posted on 01/15/2015 11:40:56 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Billthedrill
They’re rationing queues.

So they'll be ration queue queues.

38 posted on 01/15/2015 11:42:39 AM PST by AU72
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To: GOPJ
I hate communists, socialists, and liberal elites... they’re flat out stupid... and evil.

Darnit! I was going to post that...


39 posted on 01/18/2015 6:13:32 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob

I like your tag too!


40 posted on 01/18/2015 8:41:09 AM PST by GOPJ (Liberal free speech: ISIS can post severed heads to twitter but we can't post Mohammed cartoons.)
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