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Venezuela has a bread shortage. The government has decided bakers are the problem.
Miami Herald ^ | March 16, 2017 | Jim Wyss

Posted on 03/17/2017 4:23:06 AM PDT by lowbridge

Facing a bread shortage that is spawning massive lines and souring the national mood, the Venezuelan government is responding this week by detaining bakers and seizing establishments.

In a press release, the National Superintendent for the Defense of Socioeconomic Rights said it had charged four people and temporarily seized two bakeries as the socialist administration accused bakers of being part of a broad “economic war” aimed at destabilizing the country.

In a statement, the government said the bakers had been selling underweight bread and were using price-regulated flour to illegally make specialty items, like sweet rolls and croissants.

The government said bakeries are only allowed to produce French bread and white loaves, or pan canilla, with government-imported flour. However, in a tweet on Thursday, price control czar William Contreras said only 90 percent of baked goods had to be price-controlled products.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bread; breadwar; nicolasmaduro; socialism; venezuela
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To: lowbridge

Excellent graphic...


41 posted on 03/17/2017 6:15:36 AM PDT by GOPJ (Heath Insurance is NOT 'health-care' ... No one is fighting to buy health insurance.)
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To: lowbridge

Excellent graphic...


42 posted on 03/17/2017 6:15:36 AM PDT by GOPJ (Heath Insurance is NOT 'health-care' ... No one is fighting to buy health insurance.)
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To: lafroste

I don’t think scimitars are allowed at catholic school.


43 posted on 03/17/2017 6:17:53 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: lowbridge

I don’t understand why the people just don’t rise up enmass and kick the commies out?


44 posted on 03/17/2017 6:21:12 AM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God did help the Republic, can we keep it.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Only a government that prizes ideology over common sense would sit on the world’s largest oil reserves while simultaneously inflicting a food crisis on the country.

And they still can’t see their way out.


For the leadership, it’s not a lack of common sense, it’s a greedy grasp on absolute power. Socialists need socialism (along with bread lines, political prisons and ultimately mass murder) to maintain themselves in power. They have nothing to offer. No skills. Nothing. Their only possible job is ruthless dictatorship. Without that, they’d be unemployed bums in a thriving capitalist society.

Likewise the coddled kids in rich western universities who dream of socialism, they too, like their leadership heroes in socialist totalitarian regimes, have no skills, no hope of productive lives other than grabbing power, enslaving everyone else and being the ruthless bosses of society.


45 posted on 03/17/2017 6:23:12 AM PDT by samtheman (ObamaGate = Watergate Squared)
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To: carriage_hill
BUREAUCRATISM

You have 2 cows.

The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.

Reminds me of the scene in "Never Cry Wolf".

The US Government biologist is dropped off in the snowy wilds of Alaska to study wolves. They sent him with a canoe, a rifle, tent and crates of "supplies". The crates turn out to be full of Government requisition forms, "In case you need anything." No food.

When his tent is overrun with field mice, he remembers seeing the wolves eating mice by the dozens. So, he cooks up a few - "Not bad."

Went he relates his problem & solution to a neighboring Indian/Eskimo, the neighbor replies, "Good idea!"

Great scene, great movie!

46 posted on 03/17/2017 6:44:06 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: BwanaNdege

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKMBk3js7e0


47 posted on 03/17/2017 6:52:02 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Poor demoncrats haven't been this mad, since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: lowbridge

Straight out of Atlas Shrugged.


48 posted on 03/17/2017 7:09:54 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: lowbridge
"...In a statement, the government said the bakers had been selling underweight bread and were using price-regulated flour to illegally make specialty items, like sweet rolls and croissants."

commercial photography locations

"Holy Heysus. What ees dat? What the foughk ees dat?!!!"

"Eeess a yelly doghgnugt senior."

49 posted on 03/17/2017 7:13:51 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: lowbridge
Facing a bread shortage that is spawning massive lines,

universal price and wage controls, government monopoly, tyranny, and forced labor will tend to do that

50 posted on 03/17/2017 7:19:13 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They’re not allowed in train stations either. What’s your point?


51 posted on 03/17/2017 7:25:56 AM PDT by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: lafroste

Just trying to make your ramble relevent to my post.


52 posted on 03/17/2017 8:04:59 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: lowbridge
Socialism and nanny Government fails every single time it has been attempted.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

53 posted on 03/17/2017 10:45:47 AM PDT by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: carriage_hill

Thanks!

I tried everything to find that on YouTube.

“Ya done good, Pilgrim!”

“You skin ‘Grizz’, Pilgrim?”


54 posted on 03/17/2017 1:16:13 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: BwanaNdege

I can skin’ em as fast as you can catch’ em.
Skin that one, pilgrim, and I’ll get you another!


55 posted on 03/17/2017 1:55:36 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Poor demoncrats haven't been this mad, since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: lowbridge

They are trying to make up for lost tax revenue by printing money which leads to inflation. Then they try to stop the inflation with price controls. Its a predictable pattern.


56 posted on 03/17/2017 3:28:07 PM PDT by BestPresidentEver
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To: carriage_hill
Skin that one, pilgrim, and I’ll get you another!

That was one funny scene!

Classic movie!

57 posted on 03/17/2017 8:19:05 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: BwanaNdege

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NMQnDrBp60

Sure That You Can Skin Grizz?


58 posted on 03/17/2017 8:24:52 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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