Venezuelan farmers ordered to hand over produce to state

UK Telegraph ^ | July 21, 2015 | Harriet Alexander

[C19fan]

Venezuela's embattled government has taken the drastic step of forcing food producers to sell their produce to the state, in a bid to counter the ever-worsening shortages. Farmers and manufacturers who produce milk, pasta, oil, rice, sugar and flour have been told to supply between 30 per cent and 100 per cent of their products to the state stores. Shortages, rationing and queues outside supermarkets have become a way of life for Venezuelans, as their isolated country battles against rigid currency controls and a shortage of US dollars – making it difficult for Venezuelans to find imported goods.

[C19fan]

Another step towards the Chavezista workers paradise.

[Lurker]

“When toilet paper is a luxury good you have achieved socialism.”

[I want the USA back]

That’s communism. You have been warned.

[driftdiver]

So when the farmers stop farming where will the state get its food?

[TexasCajun]

Those damn Capitalist!

Let's see how much those farmers are now motivated to grow.

Next week, a new batch of State-Owned farms.

[Cboldt]

Soylent Green

[varyouga]

“When toilet paper is a luxury good you have achieved socialism.”

Who NEEDS toilet paper anyway, you elitist capitalist pig?

If it’s brown, don’t wipe it down...

[C210N]

So when the farmers stop farming where will the state get its food?

The US. All they have to do is threaten their neighbors and start a nuke program, and the rest is automagic.

[null and void]

So when the farmers stop farming where will the state get its food?

That didn't work out so well for Ukrainian farmers under Stalin.

Pol Pot's solution was to kill all the farmers and replace them with college professors and office workers. That didn't work out very well either.

[circlecity]

"So when the farmers stop farming where will the state get its food?"

Oh, the State will be able to import food for themselves. The people, not so much. The people will eventually revolt when they've been reduced to eating dirt and tree bark.

[Political Junkie Too]

Having no food sort of solves the no toilet paper problem, don't you think?

-PJ

[Buttons12]

“Property is theft.”
And that goes double for socialism!

[Mr. K]

And ANOTHER socialist paradise runs out of other people’s money

[tophat9000]

The left is anti true progress

Animals in the wild = grace in common field and fight over scraps = communist

Troglodyte Neanderthals = hunter-gatherers = socialist

Man = farming.. saves and puts seeds in ground, workes it to a harvest of greater return = capitalist

[Telepathic Intruder]

Stalin used forced collectivism to basically take everything farmers grew, even the seed for next year’s crop, so that they began starving. This is communism in its pure form.

[tumblindice]

Dumb and Dumber holding up a square of socialist butt wipe.

[notdownwidems]

Look for the U.S. federal government to give them a bailout.

[Truth29]

I keep waiting for Obama to ride to the rescue with an aid package for a fellow communist and paid for with more US debt we cannot afford.

[SkyDancer]

The Venezuelan version of Safeway??

[txrefugee]

Isn’t Socialism great! You don’t miss toilet paper when you don’t have food. Government planning at its finest.