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Venezuela issues ID cards to curtail food hoarding
Associated Press ^ | 9:31 P.M.MARCH 31, 2014 | HANNAH DREIER

Posted on 04/01/2014 4:13:38 AM PDT by Caipirabob

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Battling food shortages, the government is rolling out a new ID system that is either a grocery loyalty card with extra muscle or the most dramatic step yet toward rationing in Venezuela, depending on who is describing it.

President Nicolas Maduro's administration says the cards to track families' purchases will foil people who stock up on groceries at subsidized prices and then illegally resell them for several times the amount. Critics say it's another sign the oil-rich Venezuelan economy is headed toward Cuba-style dysfunction.

(Excerpt) Read more at utsandiego.com ...


TOPICS: Cuba; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cuba; hugochavez; iran; leopoldolopez; loozymcloser; maduro; nicaragua; nicolasmaduro; russia; socialist; venezuela; waronterror
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"Headed towards"?!? Venezuela is burning...Worse is that obama has the same mindset as Chavez and Maduro...
1 posted on 04/01/2014 4:13:38 AM PDT by Caipirabob
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To: Caipirabob

But should not a socialist paradise have enough food for everyone?


2 posted on 04/01/2014 4:37:42 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Caipirabob
Battling food shortages, caused by government policies the government is rolling out a new ID system that is either a grocery loyalty card with extra muscle or the most dramatic step yet toward rationing in Venezuela, depending on who is describing it.

Government in action. It's the same no matter where you go. Governments cause problems with their idiotic laws, and then rather than getting rid of the idiotic laws push more laws which of course almost always make the problesm worse.

I don't believe I've ever heard a politician ever say "our idea was fundamentally flawed, We'll have to get rid of it."

No, What they ALWAYS say is "We didn't go far enough."

3 posted on 04/01/2014 4:37:59 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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Looks like they are on the same track as us.

ONLY thing you can do in life WITHOUT an ID card is VOTE.

Beginning to mean as much ‘here’ as ‘there’.
When they can’t or won’t purge rolls, take a head count and have absolutely NO accountability, ‘they’ are virtually taking the ‘voting rights’ of those that have AND EARNED them.

Deviancy Down. and Down and Down and Downer yet etc....


4 posted on 04/01/2014 4:46:26 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 --"I would agree with you BUT that would make both of us wrong".))
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To: VanDeKoik
Great point. Seems Utopia isn't all it's cracked up to be. Perhaps the liberals can explain this to us.
5 posted on 04/01/2014 4:49:32 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Caipirabob

Yeah, thats the answer to their food shortage: ID cards (roll eyes)


6 posted on 04/01/2014 4:51:05 AM PDT by lowbridge
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“But should not a socialist paradise have enough food for everyone?”

Comrade!

Social Justice dictates that everyone have the same amount of everything, and anyone who diverges from that principle and complains about shortages, must suffer the consequences!

(See? Ya Know?)

IMHO


7 posted on 04/01/2014 5:05:27 AM PDT by ripley
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To: from occupied ga
No, What they ALWAYS say is "We didn't go far enough."

Or... "Not enough people heard and understood our explanation of the program(s)."

8 posted on 04/01/2014 5:10:49 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: VanDeKoik

It’s just that you can’t have “too much”...


9 posted on 04/01/2014 5:29:43 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Caipirabob

Contrary to popular belief, price gouging is good. Price controls are bad.


10 posted on 04/01/2014 5:29:49 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Caipirabob

... Or the mindset of Jimmy Carter.


11 posted on 04/01/2014 5:46:34 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Take out the trash)
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But this is racist. Black people in Venezuela aren’t going to be able to eat.


12 posted on 04/01/2014 5:46:57 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: lowbridge

Maybe they can eat them? w/sarc


13 posted on 04/01/2014 5:47:20 AM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: Kartographer

Prepper interest??


14 posted on 04/01/2014 5:55:02 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: ripley

Silly slave. We’ll tell you how much you need.


15 posted on 04/01/2014 6:14:09 AM PDT by spudville
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

Preppers’ PING!!

Hat tip to Arrowhead1952 for the heads up!


16 posted on 04/01/2014 6:19:58 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: spudville

“Silly slave. We’ll tell you how much you need.”

Yes, Master!

IMHO


17 posted on 04/01/2014 6:23:54 AM PDT by ripley
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To: lowbridge

The way things are going, is there any doubt they will be unable to produce enough cards?


18 posted on 04/01/2014 6:28:48 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Caipirabob

Obama is taking notes.

Well, not really - he is too lazy to actually do it himself.

he probably has a ‘Notes Czar’ to do it for him.


19 posted on 04/01/2014 6:32:44 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

They should make the cards edible. Two birds.


20 posted on 04/01/2014 6:32:44 AM PDT by glock rocks (If you like your health plan, you're a racist !)
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