Venezuela reaches the final stage of socialism: no toilet paper

Business Insider ^ | 4/5/15 | DAVID BOAZ,

[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.

[Kozak]

[FlingWingFlyer]

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

[garjog]

"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 "

[kanawa]

Good one!

[Seaplaner]

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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[entropy12]

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.

[livius]

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.

[xp38]

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.

[JPG]

[Aria]

"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of toilet paper".

That hit my funny bone...LOLOL

[digger48]

If only we knew how the heck those 3 seashells work

[Dallas59]

[piasa]

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

[piasa]

Venezuelan currency?

[MtnClimber]

How will they wipe their 0bamas with no TP?

[roadcat]

"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).

[hosepipe]

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

[DoughtyOne]

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

What was that definition of insanity again?

[Oscar in Batangas]

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

[skinkinthegrass]

No Doubt, Venezuela is next on (IMHO) Commie/Marxist
A. Bourdain's No Reservations places to visit.