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Facing Shortages, Venezuela Takes Over Toilet Paper Factory
CNN ^ | September 21, 2013 | Marilia Brochetto and Greg Botelho

Posted on 09/22/2013 9:48:20 AM PDT by lbryce

Edited on 09/22/2013 10:48:15 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

When you're running low on toilet paper and getting desperate, what do you do?

If you're the Venezuelan government, you take over a toilet paper factory.

On Saturday, Vice President Jorge Arreaza announced the "temporary occupation" of the Paper Manufacturing Company's plant in the state of Aragua. The aim, he explained, is to review the "production, marketing and distribution (of) toilet paper."


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: shortage; socialism; toiletpaper
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To: grobdriver

We are from the government and we are here to help you.


21 posted on 09/22/2013 10:41:20 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Producing Talk Show Prep since 1998.)
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To: cripplecreek

“Nothin spells out a nation’s greatness like nationalized butt wipes.”

If it’s like here, they could start with a government agency, NBS - National Butt Swipes. Then they could spend money later to change the name to NIST - National Institute of Sanitary Tissue.


22 posted on 09/22/2013 10:42:14 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: VRW Conspirator
We are from the government and we are here to help you.

Of course, what that really means is:

We are from the government and we are here to help ourselves.

23 posted on 09/22/2013 10:45:09 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATS! Control your murdering FREAKS!)
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To: lbryce
Are you in competition for World's longest sentence?

But, to the TP shortage, I have one suggestion...


24 posted on 09/22/2013 10:53:48 AM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: lbryce

“The first sign that you have achieved Communism is when toilet paper becomes a luxury.”

Startlingly true.


25 posted on 09/22/2013 10:56:50 AM PDT by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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To: agere_contra

It will become much less productive and efficient while under government control


26 posted on 09/22/2013 10:57:53 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: lbryce
Mr. Whipple photo: mr whipple mrwhipple.jpg Senor Whipple
27 posted on 09/22/2013 10:59:22 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: grobdriver

everything they nationalized is now less productive and less efficient


28 posted on 09/22/2013 10:59:46 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: WVKayaker

You got me on that. I do have a problem with my run on sentences. The learning curve for pithy and succinct is graphed like a 179 degree angle.


29 posted on 09/22/2013 11:11:51 AM PDT by lbryce (Obama:The Worst Is Yet To Come)
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To: lbryce
I'm not a regular member of the grammar police. But, it's 2am here in the Philippines and I'm up watching the Nascar race of FoxSports. I was reading posts and that one glared enough to make me chuckle. I can't be too critical as I tend toward such verbosity too many times!

You may want to make a submission. I checked and you could win... your word count= 94 (word counter.net)

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest ... Where “WWW” means “Wretched Writers Welcome”


30 posted on 09/22/2013 11:41:40 AM PDT by WVKayaker ("The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda..." -Sarah Palin)
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To: WVKayaker

I wasn’t offended. It was a legitimate query asked in a good-humored, tongue-in-cheek way, more curious than anything else.Thanks for providing the lead to the contest. I’ll check it out out of curiosity but have no intention of entering into the competition.


31 posted on 09/22/2013 12:50:08 PM PDT by lbryce (Obama:The Worst Is Yet To Come)
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To: lbryce

The government toilet paper will be marketed under a new brand name, “John Wayne Toilet Paper”, because it will be rough, tough, and won’t take sh!t off anybody.


32 posted on 09/23/2013 3:04:30 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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