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Venezuela reaches the final stage of socialism: no toilet paper
Business Insider ^ | 4/5/15 | DAVID BOAZ,

Posted on 04/05/2015 7:40:29 PM PDT by Kartographer

Venezuela's product shortages have become so severe that some hotels in that country are asking guests to bring their own toilet paper and soap, a local tourism industry spokesman said on Wednesday….

"It's an extreme situation," says Xinia Camacho, owner of a 20-room boutique hotel in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada national park. "For over a year we haven't had toilet paper, soap, any kind of milk, coffee or sugar. So we have to tell our guests to come prepared."…

Montilla says bigger hotels can circumvent product shortages by buying toilet paper and other basic supplies from black market smugglers who charge up to 6-times the regular price. But smaller, family-run hotels can't always afford to pay such steep prices, which means that sometimes they have to make do without.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: shortages; toiletpaper; venezuela; venezuelacrisis
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"My Precious!"
1 posted on 04/05/2015 7:40:29 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

Preppers’ PING!!


2 posted on 04/05/2015 7:41:21 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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I love that picture.


3 posted on 04/05/2015 7:41:35 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: Kartographer

If someone wanted to take over Venezuela, you could have no better rulers than Chavez and Maduro

They have taken a middle-income nation and turned it into a divided, weak, broke, violent economic basket case. A foreign invader couldn’t ask for a better quisling than these two.

They must be CIA operatives.


4 posted on 04/05/2015 7:43:06 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Kartographer

Meanwhile, we waste our time in the ME.

Most of our foreign oil used to come from Venezuela.

Most people there would be thrilled if we mounted a ‘rescue’ and dumped the idiot truck driver.

It would be a wealthy country a few minutes later.


5 posted on 04/05/2015 7:43:28 PM PDT by Regulator
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some hotels in that country are asking guests to bring their own toilet paper and soap,
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Bet if I flew those things would be confiscated by their TSA at the other end..

Toilet Paper
Soap
Any black-market items


6 posted on 04/05/2015 7:44:20 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: PGR88

Nah, they were DGI - Cuban intelligence.


7 posted on 04/05/2015 7:44:31 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Kartographer

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.


8 posted on 04/05/2015 7:44:34 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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I wouldn’t put it past Maduro to start a war with Columbia to take the focus off his failed economic policies.


9 posted on 04/05/2015 7:45:44 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money toilet paper.

There fixed it!

10 posted on 04/05/2015 7:46:41 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer
"Hey, you'd be surprised the mileage you can get out of just one square!"


11 posted on 04/05/2015 7:46:46 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of toilet paper".

12 posted on 04/05/2015 7:46:53 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Apparently one runs out of other peeps tp first....


13 posted on 04/05/2015 7:47:44 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Eccl 10:2

Even better!


14 posted on 04/05/2015 7:48:13 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer
Sponge on a stick. It was good enough for the Romans.

/johnny

15 posted on 04/05/2015 7:48:46 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: Kartographer

Watch, they’ll double down on more Socialism.


16 posted on 04/05/2015 7:49:23 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: LostInBayport

Let them touch those things once.


17 posted on 04/05/2015 7:49:29 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Kartographer

We all know that this situation is a wet dream for the librat regime in our own country.
They are hoping that we get this desperate.

It’s already starting in California.

Wait..
What do I mean, “Starting?”

(Sorry. I’ve had a few beers. I’m a little slow on the uptake.)


18 posted on 04/05/2015 7:50:16 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Hobo: "I think you're gonna need a lot of dump trucks.")
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To: JRandomFreeper

Left hand followed by a sanding of the hand. It works in the ME.


19 posted on 04/05/2015 7:51:23 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Left hand followed by a sanding of the hand. It works in the ME.


20 posted on 04/05/2015 7:51:35 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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