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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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To: Kartographer
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41 posted on 04/05/2015 8:27:42 PM PDT by Kozak (Walker / Cruz 2016 or Cruz/ Walker 2016 Either one is good...)
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To: Kartographer

It shouldn’t be too long before some flunky comes up with an “app” for your “smart” phone that will replace toilet paper.


42 posted on 04/05/2015 8:28:23 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I want to be America's first, historical, male first lady." - Slick Willie)
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To: Pajamajan
"all the elite politicians who promised to make everyone equal and take other people's money away to give to you-have plenty of TP and everything else-they get the good stuff "


43 posted on 04/05/2015 8:31:15 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: Eccl 10:2

Good one!


44 posted on 04/05/2015 8:32:01 PM PDT by kanawa
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To: Kartographer
Shortages (and awful quality control and corrupt black markets) are inevitable consequences of communist/socialist economies.

Best bad example? Socialized "medicine".

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45 posted on 04/05/2015 8:32:37 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Kartographer

Have no worries, 8 years of Obama and 8 more years of Hillary/O’Malley/Warren/whoever will create toilet paper shortage in the United States.


46 posted on 04/05/2015 8:33:42 PM PDT by entropy12 (Real function of economists is to make astrologers look respectable.)
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To: Kartographer

I’m in Mexico City right now, and the government of Venezuela seems to have had enough money to launch a weird publicity campaign in the streets here. They’ve set up little booths downtown near the Zocalo and they’re asking Mexicans to pressure the U.S. to drop any kind of sanctions on VZ.

The Mexicans appeared to be quite puzzled. Mexico is dysfunctional but Venezuela is hell, and even the Mexicans (except for the radical left) realize that.


47 posted on 04/05/2015 8:36:59 PM PDT by livius
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To: Blood of Tyrants

This issue is not new. TP shortages have been around in Venezuela for some time now. A Freeper years ago posted in reaction to the reported shortage that when toilet paper becomes a luxury item you have achieved communism.


48 posted on 04/05/2015 8:37:21 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Kartographer

49 posted on 04/05/2015 8:39:39 PM PDT by JPG (Lefty reporters doing battle with Sen. Cruz will continue to be chewed-up and spit-out.)
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To: Eccl 10:2
"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of toilet paper".

That hit my funny bone...LOLOL

50 posted on 04/05/2015 8:40:48 PM PDT by Aria
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To: FlingWingFlyer

If only we knew how the heck those 3 seashells work


51 posted on 04/05/2015 8:41:18 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Kartographer

52 posted on 04/05/2015 8:45:36 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I’d stick with the single-use outhouse corncob...


53 posted on 04/05/2015 8:53:39 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: faithhopecharity

Venezuelan currency?


54 posted on 04/05/2015 8:54:30 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Kartographer

How will they wipe their 0bamas with no TP?


55 posted on 04/05/2015 8:56:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For views of Colorado scenery and wildlife, clic k on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: LostInBayport
"Hey, you'd be surprised the mileage you can get out of just one square!"

Some female star suggested using only two squares. Apparently, she was only thinking about herself. Guys with hairy asses need more. Or they can shave their butts (I read that some do).

56 posted on 04/05/2015 8:56:56 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Kartographer

What a title... so cool, so true..


57 posted on 04/05/2015 8:59:09 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Kartographer

And yet..., the Left can’t wait to install full blown communism here.

What was that definition of insanity again?


58 posted on 04/05/2015 9:04:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: Kartographer

Reminds me of the old stock market headline joke:
Charmin Paper hits new lows, hundreds wiped clean


59 posted on 04/05/2015 9:10:29 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (No such thing as micromanagement...It's always more like microMISmanagement)
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To: Kartographer; All
No Doubt, Venezuela is next on (IMHO) Commie/Marxist
A. Bourdain's No Reservations places to visit.

60 posted on 04/05/2015 9:18:58 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass ("Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Hedy Lamarr)
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