Posted on 03/17/2017 1:33:34 PM PDT by Baynative
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela this week arrested four bakers making illegal brownies and other pastries as President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government threatens to take over bakeries in Caracas as part of a new "bread war".
Maduro has sent inspectors and soldiers into more than 700 bakeries around the capital this week to enforce a rule that 90 percent of wheat must be destined to loaves rather than more expensive pastries and cakes.
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
Another two were detained for making brownies with out-of-date wheat, the statement added, saying at least one bakery had been temporarily taken over by authorities for 90 days.
"Those behind the 'bread war' are going to pay, and don't let them say later it is political persecution," Maduro had warned at the start of the week.
When both of Adam Smith’s invisible hands get forcibly broken this is the result.
Wow. Commies. Running everything right down to the bakery.
I think he didn’t get the memo. They are supposed to let them eat cake.
After they jail or silence the private bakers and take over the bakeries, who will be to blame when the people continue to starve?
I think today the government has now seized all the bakeries. I guess Bernie and the Socialists think they are sooooo smart they can actually make socialism work this time. As Margaret Thacher once said: Socialism is great until you run out of other people’s money.
The left sees no value in America’s limited government ideals, produced from the enlightenment and English/Anglo-saxon culture. Indeed, they hate it.
So this is what they want to transform the USA into - a low IQ, 3rd world collectivist herd, governed by wolves.
“First they came for the Bakers...but I was not a Baker, so I didn’t speak up...”
Ain’t Socialism Grand?
*SPIT*
“...governed by wolves.”
Wow. A very apt description!
+1
I have so much food I can’t possibly eat it all.
The inevitable result of socialism. Not a word in the mainstream media.
Under Capitalism, Bread waits for YOU!
And those products are undoubtedly made for the corrupt oligarchs running that country. Stalin did these fake arrests as well.
Where’s Sean Penn when they need him?
Wonderful. A government that cares so much for the people they are even maming those vil bakers make bread.
Anyone who supports Communists arresting bakers for making sweet rolls and brownies is certifiably insane.
This needs to be all over Facebook with a clear labelling as an example of Socialist/Communist leadership.
Who can be against sweet rolls and brownies????
Thank goodness I read the article....
I though they were busted for not baking a wedding cake for a gay wedding!
Wow, that’s a relief....
If brownies are outlawed, only outlaws will have brownies...
Food Nazis
Obama Mama would be proud!
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