[9thLife]

...he causes all the receive a mark, and whoever does not have the mark cannot buy or sell...etc. etc. etc. Still scoffing?

[fhayek]

Funny the elaborate steps that governments take when all they have to do is step back and let the free market take over.

[Steely Tom]

They can’t deliver toilet paper, but they can come up with this.

This would take a large-scale internet infrastructure, wouldn’t it? Who maintains that? Where do the people who maintain the anti-hoarding infrastructure get their groceries and other vital supplies?

[Veggie Todd]

As another FReeper said last week:
In Venezuela, what do you call toilet paper?
Hand.

[lee martell]

Next scene in this script; Venezuela suddenly running out of gloves! Using gloves can enable multiple (illegal) purchases over the shortage quotas. Black Market Gloves are a hot item for every family. “Oh, Oh! Donde son todas las guantes?”

[9thLife]

Almost forgot the happy graphic.

[dynachrome]

“seven large private retail chains had voluntarily agreed”

at the point of a gun.

[lowbridge]

" hoarding and panic buying, which the government blames for long lines and widespread shortages of basic goods."

Riiiight. And the government socialist policies had nothing to do with it.

[Gumdrop]

Odd that they would blame Obama’s administration of trying to overthrow the communist regime.

Obama is not capable of going any such thing. BO is too busy overthrowing our own government and constitution.

[MasterGunner01]

It is really revealing the mindset of the former Chavez, now Maduro supporters. No matter how much the country spirals into the crapper, these dim bulbs are enjoying the “rich” getting hammered. [”Rich”is anyone with a peso more than they have.] Attention, fools, while Venezuela suffers, Maduro and his entourage aren't suffering one bit. The politically connected never do. It has always been thus in socialist societies and it always will be. Socialism is the equality of shared misery.

[Caipirabob]

Surely, this will fix socialism!

[Oscar in Batangas]

In other news: President Maduro reports that his government is addressing the acute shortage of finger scanners in the country

[GraceG]

[ ...he causes all the receive a mark, and whoever does not have the mark cannot buy or sell...etc. etc. etc. Still scoffing? ]

It is almost like history is cyclical and the bible is trying to tell us this fact.....

We are currently in the age of Noah / Babbel...

[Sacajaweau]

Please sir. I want some more.....

[bgill]

The usurper is taking notes.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Wild takes on the scripture deserve to be scoffed at sometimes.

[Rome2000]

When does Obama start giving all Venezuelans the Earned Income Tax Credit?

While he’s at it he can give it to the Cubans too.

Can’t let his comrades down.

[aquila48]

Is buying more than 2 rolls of toilet paper hoarding?

Incredible the country is broke yet this idiot is going to spend a few million dollars to install finger print trackers.

[madison10]

First thought in my brain, too. Many scoffed 30-50 years ago. No more. It’s being done as we speak.

[grumpygresh]

No matter how destitute, there’s alway room in the budget for the latest in high tech surveillance and advanced security in a tyrannical state.

[Born to Conserve]

Venezuela has an average IQ of 84.

They will not solve this on their own. Colonization or a return to the stone age are their options.