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When Money Dies: In Venezuela, A Haircut Costs 5 Bananas And 2 Eggs
Gold Is Money ^ | 5-6-2018

Posted on 05/06/2018 11:11:31 AM PDT by blam

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To: Tonytitan

ask “Stormy”


41 posted on 05/06/2018 12:39:29 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Kozak

Today’s young people in this country can hardly wait for Bernie or Kamala or someone to establish socialism in the post-Trump revolutionary era.

Now you know why I want anti-Trumpers to cool it. The only alternative to socialist tyranny is Trump-—not “someone.” That’s it.


42 posted on 05/06/2018 12:45:31 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: blam

Venezuela’s socialist paradise - one more ‘tribute’ to Marx... a man who brought hell to earth...


43 posted on 05/06/2018 12:58:56 PM PDT by GOPJ ( If you want a picture of the 'Deep State' imagine a boot stamping on a human face- forever. Orwell)
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To: sailor76

I guess they do like those bananas...


44 posted on 05/06/2018 1:02:29 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: TalBlack

Those were seized some time ago.


45 posted on 05/06/2018 1:02:57 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: blam

“Money debases all the gods of mankind and changes them into commodities. It is the essence of mans existence. This essence dominates him and he worships it’’.- Karl Marx. Well Karl old boy, the Venezuelans got the memo and it ain’t a working out.


46 posted on 05/06/2018 1:07:34 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Truthoverpower

You’re welcome.

I find certain popular songs have multiple meanings if they are done well.

Meanings that the Songwriter may not have intended but with a sense and ear for sarcasm they can explain their condition more objectively.

I’m continuously surprised that there are so few people that actually listen to the words. Actually listen and understand what they mean or can mean.


47 posted on 05/06/2018 1:21:02 PM PDT by Zeneta
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To: Gen.Blather
Yeah, before LBJ we had real money made of silver or backed in silver. Gas was 22 cents per gallon. A candy bar was a nickel. Music was light and happy.

Now my spare change has as much meaning as a carnival trinket. Popular music is dead.

LBJ set into motion everything that has destroyed our country. He obliterated the fabric of our nation with a destructive social agenda, and an unpopular inflation fueling war. He turned middle class neighborhoods into ghettos. He destroyed the peace between the races, and turned Americans into enemies of each other. I spit on his grave.
 

48 posted on 05/06/2018 1:49:52 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: blam

BERNIE!! BERNIE!! BERNIE!!


49 posted on 05/06/2018 2:07:57 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: blam

People will find new things to trade in order to get by. Like, other people if it comes to it.


50 posted on 05/06/2018 2:15:00 PM PDT by lurk
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To: minnesota_bound

$21!

Where do you live?


51 posted on 05/06/2018 2:24:17 PM PDT by CottonBall (Thank you , Julian!)
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To: ETL; blam
Venezuelans_Buy_A_Banana
52 posted on 05/06/2018 2:31:35 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: blam

Bookmark


53 posted on 05/06/2018 2:35:58 PM PDT by aquila48
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Why I’m just shocked socialism didn’t work out this time.....after all those successful examples of it in other countries.


54 posted on 05/06/2018 2:44:20 PM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: I want the USA back

all debt personal and sovereign is erased


55 posted on 05/06/2018 2:49:16 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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To: CottonBall

Chatsworth, CA


56 posted on 05/06/2018 2:57:55 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: armourenthusiast

Isla Margarita is where the foreign tourists go to stay.
These guys are the pimps.


57 posted on 05/06/2018 3:03:45 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Fiat currency was an astonishing revolution in finance.

Marco Polo described fiat currency used in China when he was there.

It was kinda, sorta, tied to goods and services. The Chinese government paid for everything in paper money. I believe all items officially imported were paid for in paper money.

https://fee.org/articles/marco-polo-on-money/


58 posted on 05/06/2018 3:05:41 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: blam

Venezuela: Make Barter Great Again!


59 posted on 05/06/2018 4:23:16 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: blam

Ya know...when you’re starving to death and your Homeland is in chaos due to Full Frontal Communism, I’m PRETTY sure a HAIRCUT is VERY low on your, ‘Things To Do’ list! ;)


60 posted on 05/06/2018 7:12:08 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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