Posted on 02/02/2014 12:57:53 PM PST by lowbridge
This is what turning a working country into a Socialist country leads to.
After his annual address to parliament last month, Maduro declared 2014 “the year of the ultimate triumph in the economic war,” announced a new team of economic managers and decreed a law capping business profits at 30 percent.
“You can be sure we will be inspecting everyone, sooner or later,” Maduro warned, part of the “New Economic Order” he vows to create.
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Soon word spread that the long-awaited rolls had arrived, and despite a government-imposed limit of one package per person, the checkout lines stretched all the way to the decimated dairy case in the back of the store.
“This is so depressing,” said Maria Plaza, 30, a lawyer, an hour and a half into her wait. “Pathetic.”
Pathetic, in a country with the world’s largest petroleum reserves and oil prices at nearly $95 a barrel, yet unable to supply basic goods because of its crumbling local currency and a shortage of U.S. dollars.
“Soon we’ll be using newspaper, just like they do in Cuba!” said an elderly man nearby, inching forward in line. “Yeah! Like Cuba!” others shouted.
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Nope, it's also rampant crime. A Venezuelan friend of ours returns home at least annually to visit family. She was waiting in line in the Caracas airport with her significant other when she walked across the room to a shop. Another woman, screamed at her, "They're trying to take him!" She looked back and saw that her fiance was about to be injected by two thugs intent on kidnapping him. He had not seen the needle and did not know what was going on, but she was able to raise an alarm to get help and avoid the kidnapping.
Evidently, the MO is to drug the victim, haul him out as if he's drunk and drain his bank accounts.
This occurred about the same tame as the Venezuelan novela star was killed on the road with her ex-husband.
Her family has refused to leave because of an aged mother who doesn't want to go, but sometimes action should be taken. It's probably too late now.
He needs it for legal briefs.
And the sad, sick thing is that most if not all of the younger, ‘me first’ generation have no idea that socialism causes this sort of thing. They have been fed the Capitalism is Evil meme by their Marxist teachers for so long that they do not fear socialism but they do capitalism.
I’m not old enough to remember but my grandmother said that they used rags and washed them out. So we go back to the 19th century. I used cloth diapers. When traveling in third world countries, we used whatever we could find for toilet paper and hoarded it carefully.
Sears and Roebuck catalogs were top of the TP list at one time.
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Obama can’t wait to make this nation like that.
Socialism is attractive for as long as most people can think that "redistribution" means they get more stuff.
It loses attraction when people realize there is now nothing to redistribute.
Uh, this is exactly what life was like in the Soviet Union. OF COURSE there are shortages of everything but hot air. Wonder why Chavez and Maduro thought the system would produce different results under them. Wonder why anyone in Venezuela believed them that it would.
Capping profits at thirty percent will lead to all kinds of creative bookkeeping.
Childish and irrelevant.
Nah. Our elites will get it right when they get their chance. Guaranteed.
The problem in these other places is the wrong people ended up in charge. Our Socialists are smarter, more enlightened, with better intentions. They will get it right this time!
well women made do before modern tampons. washable rag sanitary napkins.
yup. :-)
Wasn’t it the Sears catalog that did traditional duty?
Looks just like John Wayne TP - rough, tough, and don’t take shiite from nobody.
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