No Cerveza Polar? No Cerveza Zulia? Que barbaro!
Let’s see....Venezuela is south of us, so that means there must have been a Confederate flag involved.
Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried. I guess that's not a clue to these people.
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I really liked Polar Beer when I lived there. I can not think of living there without Polar Beer.
Ironically, there’s probably a robust & growing black-market for alcohol there. Importing the stuff is efficient, selling for $33/liter ($1/oz shots) easy. But moreso it’s easy to _make_ in a crashing economy, turning any source of sugars into high-demand booze with just some yeast, water, and time.
Making whiskey was popular in the South US, despite legality & morality issues, because it was a whole lot easier to transport & sell one bottle of “corn squeezin’s” than hauling a bushel or so of raw grains (about 5.3 gallons of spirit from a bushel of grain), and it fetched a higher price per equivalent to boot.
Bernie Sanders may we have your honest opinion on Venezuela’s economic woes? Is it because of the US or because of free enterprise??
Lenin spoke of a “retreat” to “state capitalism” but “not too much” on the path to his New Economic Policy. He was essentially admitting that socialism inevitably bogs down and progress forward just isn’t possible when all individual self interest is suppressed in favor of the collective. IOW even Lenin knew you don’t kill off the producers too quickly. You have to phase them out gradually. The end result, though, is the same.
He also wrote a very interesting piece entitled “The Importance of Gold, Now and After the Complete Victory of Socialism”. Gobbledygook in which he essentially admits the new ruling class needs to hunker down and cover their own butts because the proletariat may get a bit uppity.
Just as the media here and in Europe will voluntarily clamp down on this story and refuse to air it.
It’s the lack of beer that scares me the most about socialism. Over in the Soviet Union, they had to dig potatoes out of the ground to make vodka. Even to this day, there are very few good Russian beers. I do not like vodka.
I don’t understand what is so hard about this.
They just need to pass laws to increase the amount of food, increase doctor pay and increase beer production.
Problem solved.
“Under Mugabe, the price of an egg rose to 50 billion Zimbabwean dollars and a beer hit 150 billion dollars because Mugabe had the same idea of economics as Obama and Paul Krugman; just print more money.”
Is there anywhere on the net that shows what the true ‘cost’ of something should be in American dollars? I mean, we can’t be far off from the above, can we?
OK, maybe only 1 Billion for a beer at this point...but do you see what I mean?
There is an extreme shortage of toilet paper in Venezuela. It’s not a big problem as there also is an extreme shortage of food, too.
The people who rule Venezuela are richer than ever. The same goes for other basket cases like Zimbabwe. I think American politicians have taken note.