Posted on 08/18/2015 6:26:01 AM PDT by Enlightened1
An image is going round that sums up just how ridiculous Venezuela's economy has become.
A Reddit user uploaded a picture on Monday of a man using a 2 bolivar note to hold an empanada.
According to Venezuela's official bolivar-dollar exchange rate, the man using his money as a napkin is wasting about $0.31 (£0.20).
But on the black market, the reality is completely different. You can get 676.88 bolivars to the dollar, according to dolartoday.com. That means holding food with a 2 bolivar note costs the holder less than a third of one US cent.
Read more: http://uk.businessinsider.com/venezuelas-currency-is-now-so-worthless-that-people-are-using-it-as-napkins-2015-8#ixzz3jAmKI3sP .
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“Yes We Can”.....
“Si se puede”.....
How’s that working for you Venezolanos?
Just think how many unwashed hands touched that money?
EWW!!!
SHTF scenario in real time.
They did that for the picture, who take super dirty money and wraps it around food and then places it all on some dirty tile?
Looking at that photo brings on thoughts about diarhea
When will Michael Moore donate his table scraps to these poor starving socialists?
If socialism was so awful, would we be installing it in this country?
Now would be a good time to sponsor 2 week learning seminars to Venezuela for College Students, so they can see exactly how their College Professors Ideas and Beliefs turn out in Real Life! Hell, it should be Mandatory.
Someone should ask Sean Penn what he thinks of how far his pal H Chavez’s “workers paradise” has fallen.
Possibly none. They're probably cranking those bank notes out by the millions per day at some printer in Germany. That's probably a brand-new, uncirculated note.
Well they did run out of toilet paper months ago...
Communists deserve to live in poverty
Diesel is currently USD $0.01/liter in Venezuela .. time to sail your boat there , fuel up and taks a few ladies onboard at $1/day (night)...
Wow that’s impressive pricing.
I wonder if the fuel quality is sufficient to operate a modern engine?
Of course, “napkins” is a euphemism.
Napkins are probably more suitable as a substitute for toilet paper than the currency which will suffice as a napkin.
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