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Venezuela In Turmoil For Lack Of Flour, Milk And Diapers
NPR ^ | March 16, 2014 | Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Posted on 03/18/2014 10:03:37 AM PDT by grundle

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To: Cyber Liberty
Unless and until the government wises up

Communists never "wise up" because they are never directly affected by the misery they cause. Around 20% real unemployment in the USA with medical coverage being cancelled for thousands of citizens but Michelle and the girls are off on their, what is it, their fourth or fifth vacation just this year? I'd suspect the higher reaches of the Venezuelan government are similarly immune to shortages of the basic necessities of life. And there are always the Kulaks, the Koch brothers, and other class enemies around to blame.

This will sort out when Sean Penn's friends are cornered and strung up from lamp posts. I am hoping he's in-country when it happens so he can hang with them in socialist solidarity.

21 posted on 03/18/2014 10:20:51 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: grundle

I know this is about more than just the diapers but doesn’t anyone remember what people did before “Pampers” came to be the standard?


22 posted on 03/18/2014 10:22:21 AM PDT by arasina (Communism is EVIL. So there.)
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To: grundle

Thanks to Obama: Coming to a major city near you very shortly!

When will the military kick the socialists out?


23 posted on 03/18/2014 10:22:33 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Don't forget the toilet paper...

That's the "upside" of this food shortage and economic collapse... without food the people will no longer create waste, therefore toilet paper is no longer needed or required. Behold, the "miracle" of centrally planned economies...

24 posted on 03/18/2014 10:22:44 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: dfwgator

How’s the toilet paper holding out? That was last months shortage.


25 posted on 03/18/2014 10:23:42 AM PDT by edcoil (Not a single republican was ever a slave owner. They were all democrats.)
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To: grundle

I spoke with a number of folks last fall who live in Venezuela who said at that time that there were long toilet paper lines. I guess it’s more than toilet paper now.


26 posted on 03/18/2014 10:24:10 AM PDT by Marko413
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To: grundle

That’s a line for MILK..isn’t Socialism great LOL Meanwhile I don’t see the usual Commie lovers like Sean Penn and others flying over to Venezuela to join that line


27 posted on 03/18/2014 10:26:07 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: arasina

We washed and folded cloth diapers. Endlessly, or so it seemed! :-)


28 posted on 03/18/2014 10:27:25 AM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: grundle

And NPR will blame this on right wing Republicans since it can’t possibly blame socialist utopians who actually run the country.


29 posted on 03/18/2014 10:28:49 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (2001-2008: "Dissent Is Patriotism!" 2009-2016: "Dissent Is Racism!")
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To: Psalm 73

Well gun sales have gone up the last couple of years though.


30 posted on 03/18/2014 10:31:52 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: knittnmom

More and more people are going back to reusable diapers, either for health, or economic reasons.


31 posted on 03/18/2014 10:34:24 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: grundle

This is what a planned economy looks like.


32 posted on 03/18/2014 10:42:38 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator ( 2+2 = V)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

NPR wants the same-thing here, clearly, as they spout Marxism from their taxpayer-funded perches...with large Commie money from Soros and Left Foundations picking up the rest of the tab.

So, NPR, if you take away private property and a free market, this is what you get. You adore this crap, so take Penn down there and starve, maggot.


33 posted on 03/18/2014 10:48:24 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: grundle
I wonder how Get a Venezuelan Woman website is working out? I bet its a buyers market.
34 posted on 03/18/2014 10:49:09 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: katana
This will sort out when Sean Penn's friends are cornered and strung up from lamp posts.

Or when they flee the country to avoid the nooses. I expect this will happen during the coming food riots.

35 posted on 03/18/2014 10:49:55 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: grundle

ALL of these people VOTED for this!!! The poor thought they were getting back at the rich.......they did, everyone was brought down or SILENCED, and now the poor dumbasses got exactly what they voted for.


36 posted on 03/18/2014 10:52:27 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 4yearlurker
Shouldn't Penn and the rest of the HomoWood millionaires move to Venezuela to be part of the workers’ paradise?

Pray America wakes up

37 posted on 03/18/2014 10:55:19 AM PDT by bray (The Republic of Texas 2022 coming soon)
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To: dfwgator
They have achieved true Communism.

Yep. You'd have to go back to Poland or Romania before the wall came down to find another photo like that.


38 posted on 03/18/2014 10:56:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Ann Archy
ALL of these people VOTED for this!!! The poor thought they were getting back at the rich.......they did, everyone was brought down or SILENCED, and now the poor dumbasses got exactly what they voted for.

There's a saying we have in my industry:

If you're gonna be dumb, ya gotta be tough.

39 posted on 03/18/2014 10:57:36 AM PDT by papertyger (if disdain of homosexual behavior is "bigotry," is it any wonder hostility to Islam is "racism?")
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To: Mr. K

This forum should be about critical thinking among conservatives because forums tend and bend towards a dominant political ideology. FR is no exception.

We need less knee jerk treason accusations and more critical reasoning.


40 posted on 03/18/2014 11:17:25 AM PDT by Usagi_yo (Standardization is an Evolutionary dead end.)
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