Venezuela arrests brownie and croissant bakers in 'bread war'

yahoo news ^ | March 16, 2017 | Reuters

[Baynative]

During this week's inspections, two men were arrested as their bakery was using too much wheat in sweet bread, ham-filled croissants and other products, the state Superintendency of Fair Prices said in a statement sent to media on Thursday.

Another two were detained for making brownies with out-of-date wheat, the statement added, saying at least one bakery had been temporarily taken over by authorities for 90 days.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.

[posterchild]

When both of Adam Smith’s invisible hands get forcibly broken this is the result.

[Beowulf9]

Wow. Commies. Running everything right down to the bakery.

[conejo99]

I think he didn’t get the memo. They are supposed to let them eat cake.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

After they jail or silence the private bakers and take over the bakeries, who will be to blame when the people continue to starve?

[antidemoncrat]

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.

[PGR88]

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.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“First they came for the Bakers...but I was not a Baker, so I didn’t speak up...”

Ain’t Socialism Grand?

*SPIT*

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“...governed by wolves.”

Wow. A very apt description!

+1

[Berlin_Freeper]

I have so much food I can’t possibly eat it all.

[I want the USA back]

The inevitable result of socialism. Not a word in the mainstream media.

[Paladin2]

Where Democrats rule, you wait for Bread.

Under Capitalism, Bread waits for YOU!

[miss marmelstein]

And those products are undoubtedly made for the corrupt oligarchs running that country. Stalin did these fake arrests as well.

[AmusedBystander]

Where’s Sean Penn when they need him?

[Organic Panic]

Wonderful. A government that cares so much for the people they are even maming those vil bakers make bread.

[Gumdrop]

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????

[nevergore]

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....

[fhayek]

If brownies are outlawed, only outlaws will have brownies...

[RayChuang88]

One REALLY wonders has Venezuela crossed the threshold of entering a massive famine that will kill millions in that country? Can we see a smaller version of the Great Leap Forward debacle that ended up killing 45 million Chinese from famine between 1958 and 1963, when that program mercifully ended?

[Gasshog]

Food Nazis
Obama Mama would be proud!