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Venezuela: Where flour, pasta and milk can cost a month's pay
CNN ^ | August 2, 2016 | Flora Charner and Rachel Clarke

Posted on 08/03/2016 6:04:18 AM PDT by C19fan

Three basics people all around the world have in their kitchens. Three staples always in stock in groceries and supermarkets for any home cook looking to rustle up a family meal, pancakes or a quick, nutritious drink. But in Venezuela, you can get these products only if you're lucky or have the connections and the cash. A lot of cash.

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KEYWORDS: socialism; venezuela
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Feelin' the Bern!
1 posted on 08/03/2016 6:04:18 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

This is what hillary wants for Americans.


2 posted on 08/03/2016 6:05:34 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: C19fan

Chef Boyardee probably has the same status as champagne and caviar over there now.


3 posted on 08/03/2016 6:06:58 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: C19fan; TADSLOS; Bikkuri
Food and Water are the only true valuables.

You see how valuable they are in Socialist Countries.

You know the U.S.A is truly wealthy when restaurants give water out for free.

4 posted on 08/03/2016 6:10:09 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Never Killary!)
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To: OttawaFreeper
These are skyrocketing in price:


5 posted on 08/03/2016 6:12:16 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: C19fan

Socialism at its finest hour. Just what the Elites want for the USA. They are sick and tired of the plebeians having the same stuff as they do, cars, summer homes, boats, airplanes, albeit overcrowded ones, and plenty of food to eat. They are the Masters. We are the Slaves and damn well ought to live and act like it. Mandingo 2.0!


6 posted on 08/03/2016 6:13:22 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: C19fan


7 posted on 08/03/2016 6:14:03 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: C19fan

Yesterday they order people to the fields for 60 days. you know that will be extended.

I fear that 2 million people will parish if nothing changes fast.


8 posted on 08/03/2016 6:16:30 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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Socialism. It’s great! Obamazuela.


9 posted on 08/03/2016 6:17:06 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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This is eerily similar to Germany prior to the rise of a certain young Austrian man named Adolf.


10 posted on 08/03/2016 6:23:28 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: KC_Lion
You know the U.S.A is truly wealthy when restaurants give water out for free.

Not to mention dinner rolls and after dinner mints on the way out. I wonder what the going rate for those are in Sean Penn's Paradiso right now, if you can even find them...

11 posted on 08/03/2016 6:34:54 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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To: castlegreyskull

2 million perish as a result of this policy? Mass starvation is political weapon the Left uses to eliminate opponents and re-order society to their intent. Examples: Lenin White Russians - 1920s; Stalin Ukrainian Kulaks - 1930s; Hitler -Poland, Holland and Yugoslavia - 1940s; Stalin - Bulgaria and Romania 1940s; Mao - non-communist Chinese 1920s - 1950; North Korea et al 1949 - present; Fidel Castro - Cuba 1959 - present; Pol Pot - Cambodia 1979 - 1983; etc. etc. In each one of these millions were starved to death. In some cases it was 10s of millions.

Starvation is a tool of the Left to control populations and eliminate dissent.


12 posted on 08/03/2016 6:40:07 AM PDT by Justa
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To: Justa

It seems like where they are heading.


13 posted on 08/03/2016 6:45:21 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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Feelin’ the HUGO!

I feel sorry for those born in a country that had turned to socialism to make thing better for the ruling class but set up their own deaths from starvation.

14 posted on 08/03/2016 7:04:22 AM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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They’ve started the Recall of the Bus Driver


15 posted on 08/03/2016 7:34:00 AM PDT by butlerweave
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My Venezuelan boat neighbor came over the other day to help put a new valve in my toilet. He said his family got out just in time.


16 posted on 08/03/2016 7:52:15 AM PDT by sheana
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They’ve started the RECALL? You mean the people are still trying to handle this democratically? How much can they take - last month they were eating their pets.


17 posted on 08/03/2016 8:01:05 AM PDT by bunster
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To: sheana

I hope that he can realize the “American Dream” is here in North America and the USA. Good luck to him. I hope that he brought his family and some skills to get a job.


18 posted on 08/03/2016 9:36:14 AM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: carriage_hill

You say “Boneless Pork Rectums, inverted”.

America hears “Why is this calamari so inexpensive?


19 posted on 08/03/2016 9:48:23 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: T-Bone Texan
Then, there's these:


20 posted on 08/03/2016 10:40:34 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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