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Toilet Paper Defeats Venezuelan Socialism
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| February 2, 2014
| daniel greenfield
Posted on 02/02/2014 12:57:53 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: GeronL
It aint just toilet paper. 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.
To: Beagle8U
A lawyer waiting in line for an hour and a half to buy TP does kinda make you smile though. He needs it for legal briefs.
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posted on
02/02/2014 2:12:04 PM PST
by
Flick Lives
(Got a problem with the government? Have a complaint. Get a free IRS audit!)
To: lowbridge
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.
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posted on
02/02/2014 2:13:09 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: GeronL
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.
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posted on
02/02/2014 2:21:15 PM PST
by
Mercat
To: Rodamala
I'm guessing that Bill didn't ask him about his communist upbringing.
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posted on
02/02/2014 2:21:33 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Think free or die
I remember very well the beauty of socialist TP. Even well in the 90’s the toilet paper in Eastern Europe was like that. My wife and I after a visit to Bulgaria in 1996 brought a roll as a present to our oldest son. He kept it and showed it off forever. And since I'm reminiscing, the newspaper works if you wrinkle it really, really well.
there was a joke that the best cure for baldness was the newspaper ink. after the obligatory question “why”, the answer was, “have you seen a bald rear end?”
To: Mercat
Sears and Roebuck catalogs were top of the TP list at one time.
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posted on
02/02/2014 2:24:44 PM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: lowbridge
Headlines...................sh## defeats sh##
To: lowbridge
Headlines...................sh## defeats sh##
To: lowbridge
Obama can’t wait to make this nation like that.
To: theBuckwheat
People who advocate and support Socialism refuse to understand how it can never be sustainable, and they cling to every hope until it utterly fails. That is what happened in Soviet Union (the Workers Paradise), that happened in Cambodia, even China under Mao, and now it is happening once again. 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.
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posted on
02/02/2014 2:35:02 PM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: lowbridge
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.
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posted on
02/02/2014 2:37:41 PM PST
by
La Lydia
To: lowbridge
Capping profits at thirty percent will lead to all kinds of creative bookkeeping.
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posted on
02/02/2014 2:45:05 PM PST
by
Hardastarboard
(The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks
Growing in Spain in the 70s I got to "enjoy" the toilet tissue "El Elefante" (the elephant). It was like using brown paper towels!
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:19:28 PM PST
by
Former Fetus
(Saved by grace through faith)
To: Rodamala
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:20:41 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Ps 8)
To: theBuckwheat
People who advocate and support Socialism refuse to understand how it can never be sustainable, and they cling to every hope until it utterly fails... Every time. FAIL. Utter FAIL.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!
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posted on
02/02/2014 4:27:30 PM PST
by
Gritty
(Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out! - David Horowitz)
To: GeronL
well women made do before modern tampons. washable rag sanitary napkins.
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posted on
02/02/2014 5:05:35 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Beagle8U
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posted on
02/02/2014 5:06:23 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Wasn’t it the Sears catalog that did traditional duty?
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posted on
02/02/2014 5:17:46 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: Former Fetus
Looks just like John Wayne TP - rough, tough, and don’t take shiite from nobody.
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