Posted on 02/11/2014 11:38:19 AM PST by lowbridge
Last week, we were walking near a Bicentenario (large, government-run markets offering products at reasonable or “friendly” prices) and saw a number of people walk out with cans of milk.
“Hey, look!” said my partner, who’s always on the lookout for these kinds of things, as though she were the one from Cuba.
When we went inside the market, we were somewhat disappointed: there wasn’t a single can of milk left on the shelves, even though purchases are restricted to one can per person.
Someone said to us: “Stay close to the chekout counters. When one person tries to buy two cans, they take one away from them and you can have one of those.”
Team work is always more productive, so I stood in line to buy something while my partner went out to hunt, that is, to stand by the check-outs to see if some unfortunate soul was forced to part with one of their cans of milk.
It took nearly two hours to get to the check-out counter and, during this time, I was able to see and hear a bit of everything.
Standing in line ahead of me was an elderly gentleman who had left his home early in the morning to go shopping at the opposite end of Caracas and had to walk a very long distance to get his hands on some milk for his granddaughter (the child’s father could not take on such a journey, for he was bed-ridden, recovering from a gunshot wound).
While we were talking, a man arrived, stuck his hand into a pile of bags of bread on a shelf and “found” a can of milk. He darted off with it, in the direction of a check-out.
The people in line immediately reacted.
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If they hadn’t been freed from job-lock by their government, the wouldn’t have been able to make the choice to riot.
When this happens in the US, a trip to the govrnment food lines will make argentina and venezuela look like paradise.
I’ve been reading about the milk shortage there for at least 2 years.
The communists transformed Venezuela into a country where you have to fight over milk and toilet paper.
When you beg a guy to transform your country, sometimes you get what you asked for good and hard.
Take notes.
/johnny
I remember receiving an email from a friend who had just taken a consulting job in Caracas before Chavez took over. She emailed me and said they were pulling people out of houses and shooting them on the street outside where she was. Fortunately she had some coworkers who sheltered her. Americans were apparently big targets of the communists.
A look into the paradise that awaits us....
They have achieved True Communism.
Ping.
(U. S. Healthcare, as it progresses down the shining collectivist path? The waits for rationed care will be killers (perhaps literally so).
ping
Communists are people who can’t abide living in a world where you don’t need them. So they design an infantile world where you have to have their permission to go to the john.
You laugh now, but how soon before some are posting, "How's that vote for Barack Obama workin' out for ya?
Mama always said, why buy the cow when the milk can be looted in a food riot?
That photo is a Kroger’s in Atlanta two hours before the snow starts falling.
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