Posted on 02/24/2018 10:26:29 AM PST by blam
Those who are unfamiliar with Venezuela’s unprecedented economic collapse might be surprised to learn that the country’s oil production has only slowed, even as the price of a barrel of crude has risen in most international markets.
Unsurprisingly (it’s Venezuela), there’s a macabre explanation for this phenomenon: The workers at PDVSA – Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, which once showered Venezuelans with oil wealth – are literally collapsing due to hunger and exhaustion as workers defy their government handlers and flee their jobs in their desperation as the value of their pay has been completely erased.
Bloomberg spoke with several workers in Venezuela’s oil industry about the harsh conditions they face on a daily basis.
Of course, oil workers aren’t the only ones suffering: The situation in Venezuela is getting so dire that ordinary Venezuelans are losing tons of body weight because of the food shortages. Many can no longer afford to buy meat.
One worker told Bloomberg about how his weekly salary barely pays for the corn flour he mixes with water and drinks every morning.
At 6:40 a.m., Pablo Ruiz squats at the gate of a decaying refinery in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, steeling himself for eight Sisyphean hours of brushing anti-rust paint onto pipes under a burning sun. For breakfast, the 55-year-old drank corn-flour water.
Ruiz’s weekly salary of 110,000 bolivares — about 50 cents at the black-market exchange rate — buys him less than a kilo of corn meal or rice. His only protein comes from 170 grams of canned tuna included in a food box the government provides to low-income families. It shows up every 45 days or so.
“I haven’t eaten meat for two months,” he said. “The last time I did, I spent my whole week’s salary on a chicken meal.”
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Indeed. The dead don't have a large carbon footprint.
Somebody voted for it.
Oh I don’t mind disagreement, and I’ve taken plenty of criticism. I just won’t reply to such if it is done with a spirit of antagonism; as life is short and getting shorter by the minute!
Passing along info is more fun; anyone who likes or is interested, fine. Would prefer if the proposed thread doesn’t turn into a flame war of meat eating vs vegetarianism, if you know what I mean.
Very interesting info.
I’ve read that the digestive enzymes the body needs to digest legumes increase if a person eats legumes regularly, so it’s a good idea to include them often and starting with small doses, and the ones a person likes best.
Say hummous, or something familiar.
Oops - didn’t respond to other parts.
I can provide some dietary info about staving off or helping bring down Diabetes2, or other issues.
Now, I eat ultra simply and for years have cooked everything from scratch, can make all kinds of flat breads (chapattis, naan, flour and corn tortillas, etc) and that kind of thing.
Military aid? But not food...
Where are the Hollywood telethon and concert fundraisers to help feed starving people in Venezuela?
....crickets....
The article didn’t mention food. Likely that is for the military and elites-you know- like the hunger games movie?
They elected the idiots that moved them farther and farther left. The exact same thing the college and high-school kids will do in the USA one day. Vote for Socialism today, and tomorrow the government will be a totalitarian nightmare like Venezuela.
I do blame them. How stupid one must be to think that taking from the rich will last very long.
I believe they brought this on by their very votes. The more they voted for equality in results, the farther left they went. Then one day they woke up and realized they bought into the lie, and it was too late.
I feel compassion and pray to God things change, but I do not absolve them of their guilt. I have compassion, but the lesson here is for us to be sure we win the information war so that more children in America do not fall into the same trap as the snowflake crowd has.
Whenever a person believes that taking from another who is better off than they are, they will inevitably end up slaves to the very greed they voted for.
I forgive them, but they need, and the world needs to know they did it to themselves by being greedy for what their neighbor had.
Socialism always turns to totalitarianism, because when you run out of other peoples money you must then rely on forced participation to keep the leaders satisfied.
It began with the greed of the civilians who elected the first socialists.
If the results of polls taken of American millennial college kids is any indicator, by 2030 conservatism and capitalism as a political institution will become forever a memory in America, just as it is in Venezuela.
We did it to our selves by feeding our children to the monster known as public education, and aborting our children. O’Lord, how many future conservative Christian warriors have we allowed to be murdered because we did not fight the good fight hard enough. Sadly, even conservatives do not fight hard enough to stop the practice of feeding our babies to Moloch. How can we expect them to fight to the death to save this Republic from becoming Venezuela?
You have fought for people to home school their kids. I too have called for the same. For 30 years I have argued and lost both friends, family, and church members over my so called hard headed idea that Christians should home-school and never send their kids to College other than trade school. From the looks of things today we are both fighting a losing battle sister. But I, and I know you too, will continue the fight.
I have compassion for those suffering, but I will never ever say they didn’t do it to themselves, because they did. People are always to blame for their outcome in life. It begins by putting faith in men instead of God.
If you do start a thread, please ping me. While I do not plane on ever eliminating meat from my diet, I am intelligent enough to know their are many benefits to eating food that has high levels of protein that is nit meat, and I would be interested in recipes and all.
I may not comment on the threads I read often, but I do read many threads on a daily basis.
I remember the long ago slogan by many - "Better Red than Dead" - how many will choose genocide over tyranny when faced with that choice? Like most of us, I see myself resisting but one never knows until it actually becomes a choice.
And how many people did NOT vote for what they got?
And how many people have been born into this system and are in a situation they did not want or ask for?
And as I asked earlier, you don’t think there was election fraud happening? For crying out loud, it happens here even.
Making blanket statements of not feeling sorry for someone cause they got what they asked for is ludicrous and wrong. we don’t even know for sure that the elections were honest. You’d trust a government that would do that sort of thing to its people to hold honest elections?
Having lived in a state like NY and seeing the damage done to most of the state by a bunch of people living in one small section, I can GUARANTEE you that not everyone asked for it and they are not all *getting what they deserve*.
I *HATE* NY government with a passion and vote against it every opportunity I can get. And yet there are constantly those who repeat the *they’re getting what they asked for* mantra constantly.
Really? Me and every other conservative voter who opposes this evil, corrupt government every chance we get *deserves* this? We *asked for it*?
Not a chance.And to give a bunch of them the benefit of the doubt, when socialistic governments came on the scene with their promises, they did it deceitfully. The worst the people can be held accountable for is being naive enough to believe that it would work.
We’re learning now what happens in socialist countries so there’s less excuse for voting one in.
So I’m not going to close my heart to those who are suffering by starving to death, with callous indifference and just shrug it off with *they got what they asked for*, *they deserve it*.
Some day when this country goes that route, the same thing will be said about us. INCLUDING all those who smugly said about others *they got what they asked for*, *they deserve it*.
Re: 94 - best post on the thread. Thank you.
I have 2 cases of the Ball lids as well, found them at a good price when I was in my paranoid mode.
But...I couldn’t find out at the time how long the rubber stuff on the lids last? Nor the tattler ring. Do you know? I’m also wondering how best to store everything.
I miss granny’s prepper threads that dealt with daily stuff, like this. I learned how to can from those threads, and also how to get started gardening. The collective wisdom there was amazing.
I really have no idea how ling they are good for.
I label mine with the date I bought them and rotate them. I know it’s years as I’m always using the oldest ones first and they are usually several years old.
The weekly gardening thread is starting up again I see.
I miss grannies’ threads, too.
What a treasure she was.
Any major change in diet is goin to reek havoc on your gut. Grains and legumes are gaseous, while proteins and cheeses will block you up. I’ve found a high protein diet more beneficial for my health, with greens to balance things out. Carbs are cheap and easy to store, but offer little to no nutritional value. Most modern food is designed for transportation, not nutritional value. Our grandparents ate real food and had fewer problems as a result; however, it took a lot of hard work.
Prepping, like a diet, is a life choice. If it isn’t routine, you’re wasting time and money. Learn to stock what you eat, and eat what you stock (or even better, produce). We are blessed with miraculous technology that takes much of the time out and eliminates guesswork. Mormon churches all have commercial canning kitchens open to the public—I am not Mormon, but I will take any advantage.
i think there’s something you can add to the cooking beans that helps. it could’ve been baking soda but don’t quote me on that.
Beans provide a lot of cheap protein (along with grains) without the fat that many meats have. i personally love beans, especially with pasta. Pasta fagioli, yum! Or lima beans and barley. There’s numerous yummy combinations
I think I’ve read about the baking soda trick, but haven’t tried it.
I love beans, especially black beans; they don’t love me :-(
I’ve never had a problem with chickpeas or lentils...
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