Hope and Change shipment on the way.
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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California is running out of water because of the short sighted policies of the democrats. Now add in a shortage of toilet paper and you got trouble with a capital “T” that rhymes with “P”.....
The hotels we stayed in had toilet paper, but all of the public washrooms in any of the Russian buildings we entered had baskets next to the toilets which were designed to hold newspapers. They were screwed to the walls at the same height as TP rolls in the US. All of the Russians were quite adept at tearing the newspaper into the proper size squares, which was evident from the pieces still in the baskets.
This is nothing new for the socialists...
The hotels we stayed in had toilet paper, but all of the public washrooms in any of the Russian buildings we entered had baskets next to the toilets which were designed to hold newspapers. They were screwed to the walls at the same height as TP rolls in the US. All of the Russians were quite adept at tearing the newspaper into the proper size squares, which was evident from the pieces still in the baskets.
This is nothing new for the socialists...
In 1985 I went through Check Point Charlie into East Berlin and ended up drinking at a foreign currency only bar next to a Russian monument to themselves. I went to what I thought was the men's room to find an old woman in there sitting on a chair.
She nodded to me and tore off a piece of paper from the roll she had in her hands. It was a coarse gray paper, not unlike what wasps make for their hives. So is my story about Communism and toilet paper. For all you younger people, I lived this.
So you call wiping your butt “absorption?”
I don’t know if you are joking or not.
Scott Tissue touched a new bottom today, and many were wiped out!
On the Earth stock exchanges, maybe, but they did just fine on Uranus.
It sounds like what the French army was using in the 1980s.
I used to have some to show people, and probably still have it stored away somewhere.
They had a meeting with US reps a couple days ago I haven't yet caught up with..but they were handing them a letter to give Obam at this summit with signitures of millions demanding the 'executive order' be repealed.
Looks like we aren't the only ones suffering under his damnable Executive orders!.....Obama's using 'economic warfare' to get nations to do what he wants....this is another example of many
“In the black market you have to pay 110 bolivares [$0.50] for a roll of toilet paper that usually costs 17 bolivares [$ 0.08] in the supermarket ... I don’t have four hours a day to line up for toilet paper” at a supermarket”
And there’s the whole crux of the matter right there. 50 cents for a roll of toilet paper under the circumstances is not even close to a ripoff; in fact, it’s actually a pretty good deal in a country whose production infrastructure is a complete shambles. 8 cents a roll on the other hand has to be WAY below actual production or import costs, which of course is why essentially none is available at that price.
The natural and immutable laws of cost, supply and demand ALWAYS find a way to work, no matter what kinds of controls governments try to impose. Trying to stop the marketplace from working by government regulation is pretty much as futile as outlawing gravity and then expecting stuff to stop falling out of the sky.
more like USA currency, unfortunately.....
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(”The best $5 hamburger in town” is now $9.69.)
Well, it's still good for something.
If everyone became a muslim, no toilet paper is no longer a problem!
Not nearly as much of a problem now as the food’s also run out.
LOL at Sheryl “one square” Crow. Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode, “I don’t have a square to spare.”.
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