Posted on 05/02/2015 11:16:29 PM PDT by Zakeet
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has promised to nationalize food distribution in the South American nation beset with record shortages of basic goods, runaway inflation and an escalating economic crisis.
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Various estimates suggest the government already controls about half of the country's food distribution, but that hasn't stopped record shortages in shops and markets.
Venezuela is struggling with a recession, 68.5-percent annual inflation and severe shortages of the basic goods that it relies on oil money to import.
On any given day, people in Venezuela can wait hours to get some subsidized milk, cooking oil, milk or flour -- if they can be found at all.
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This is where you line up and wait four-eight hours to buy one roll of toilet paper - uh, wait....they don’t even have that.
The problem with it is when they own and operate everything, all the workers are government employees. The state pretends to pay them, and they pretend to work.
That was the whole point of all the USSR Five-Year Plans. Reset to the beginning every 5 years.
That problem will quickly be resolved, once the government becomes completely responsible for food.
I presume the troops get fed first.
This plan is designed to address the toilet paper shortage. Less food means less need for TP.
Marie Harf will explain the nuanced brilliance of this plan in her next presser.
Like being addictied to drugs the masses cant get enough of the free stuff until it runs out then they find themselves in chains
Fox Butterfield, is that you?
Healthcare system. Bucket.
Food distribution. Bucket.
Ideology and power. Thats all that matters. That people die under their ideology does not cause them to blink. In their minds it simply means there is some counterrevolutionary force sabotaging their utopian plan.
But, but, but, but leftism gives us income equality...
Who was it that said, "you can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality?"
5.56mm
and social justice!
Michelle Obama is already controlling the food in our schools nation-wide. That’s just the first step of food control in the U.S. It’s a test to see how much control citizens will accept. Why are school cafeterias obeying Michelle Obama?
What a cesspool....and yet their people, especially the young educated ones are bright, articulate, and freedom loving.
The political class is the problem- all commies/socialists who keep all the power to themselves.
The women are some of the most beautiful on earth.
Who really wants to change the rules anyway.....the Republicans???????
I watched a segment on Fox News presenting the RINO “alternative” to Michelle Obama.
Dr. Mark Siegel did a segment one Sunday about how good looking compliant meals are when they’re done by a private contractor providing school lunches.
The GOP wants big government using private contractors instead of unionized government employees.
There’s your difference between the two big parties. No change in the system’s rules and regs, just the methods by which they are implemented.
Democrats used unionized employees to implement big government and the unions support Democrats.
The Republicans use private contractors to implement big government and the private contractors like charter school operators for example support the GOP.
Yes, the problem IS socialism.
Depriving the incentive for performance and excellence is always a sure means to disable productivity.
The basic concept of socialism and the subsequent confiscation of wealth is anathema for any society that hopes to one day raise it's head out of the dirt. It completely destroys a society's ability to create wealth and leaves all in a failed state with the only unifying factor being complete poverty.
Controlling food, controlling when and how much people can eat, controlling who is allowed to be fed -- the ultimate Obama/Democrat Party power binge dream.
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