Marge: Go Crazy?
Posted on 04/22/2016 12:11:44 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Venezuelans grumbling over the scarcity of food and toilet paper may soon face another shortage, beer produced by Empresas Polar SA., the country’s largest private company and biggest beer maker.
Polar said on Thursday that it will be forced to stop producing beer next week because it cannot get the U.S. dollars, which are controlled by the government, to import the malted barley needed to brew.
Under Venezuela’s stringent currency exchange system, only the government can legally control dollars, which companies need to import raw materials, food, machine parts and other supplies.
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I've been to Venezuela and almost all adults drink Polar beer daily. And it's not just due to the heat. You CAN'T drink the water down there which is why you see NO water fountains. Not even in the airports. The best substitute is Polar beer and if that is not available...uh-oh!
You can wipe with you hands.
But (no pun intended) no substitute for beer.
Back in the USSR, the peasants managed to put up with Communist oppression and misrule by drinking lots of vodka. What will the Venezuelans do without their beer?
About three years ago company stopped selling to Venezuela an essential agriculture product to produce chicken. Why, we couldn’t get USD! It is nice to see during this time that the government made USD available for beer, but not chicken. The priority of the socialist- keep the population dumb and drunk!
Polar Beer is good stuff. Even looking at the label with that polar bear standing on a ice flow makes you feel good on a hot day.
It’s the Polar light beer that is most favored down there. Good stuff. And really appreciated in the tropical heat. Cut that off and the folks might take to the streets.
No Bear and No TV Make Homer something something.
Marge: Go Crazy?
Instead of malt and barley, use tree bark and grass.
Won’t do squat, but at least it gives the government the ability to say the beer is now better and that it no longer needs imported goods. Maybe give a medal to the apparatchik who suggested this.
Limited electricity, no toilet paper and now no beer.
And a 5 hour wait in the hot sun to get into the grocery store.
This is what socialism is in real life.
When you vote for socialism, you get socialism.
From the land of sky blue waters...
Just like Pittsburgh....You’re talking Vitamin I, I hope. (Iron City).
Do - the stuff that buys me beer
Ray - the guy who sells me beer
Me - the guy who drinks the beer
Fah - a long way to get beer
So - I think I'll have a beer
La - La la la la la beer
Ti - no thanks, I'm drinking beer,
Which will bring us back to - DOH!
Would this be the place to plant a rumor that all Polar Beer shipments have been diverted to the ruling elite for their personal consumption? ;)
if they have no $ dollars, let them use ¥ yuan
You know it. Can’t drink that Rolling Rock now that
it’s made with New Jersey water.
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