$755 for a box of condoms? No protection from shortages in Venezuela

CNN ^ | February 6, 2015 | Rafael Romo

[C19fan]

Shortages of basic products such as corn, milk and chicken have plagued Venezuela for years, creating long lines at supermarkets and pushing inflation well past the 60% mark just in the last year alone.

More recently, shortages are affecting people in the South American country in a more personal way. Venezuelan consumers complain condoms and birth control pills are nowhere to be found. Shortages that first affected the dining table have now made their way into the bedroom.

[C19fan]

Sandra Fluke needs to head down to Venezuela to tell her Leftie pal Presidente Maduro to use Venezuela's shrinking foreign reserves to buy condoms and tell businesses they need to provide free birth control to employees.

[nascarnation]

After p*ssing away a mil of her in-laws dough on that failed campaign for California senate, she may not have the money to do it, LOL.

[Kartographer]

Laz it could be worse for you! ;-)

[golux]

In Canada there is a new ad campaign out for the Power Workers Union, protesting the possibility of competition. (Ontario produces more electrical power than they can use; Ontarians pay more than any of their neighbors in the US or Canada, the money is siphoned off by Big Labor while pensioners struggle to get through the winter.)

The headline reads:

PRIVATIZATION, or RELIABILITY?

(Venezuela is regularly tauted as a model of NAtional ZocIaliam. Self righteous Canadians love their $5.00 dinners in Beautiful, Progressive Cuba and never think that the poor Cubans who serve them might not live so well.)

[Billthedrill]

Condoms are one product where it’s really bad to have shortages.

[SunkenCiv]

The US should send a couple million doses of Viagra, and NO condoms. It could come right out of Pentagon warehouses.

[Capt. Tom]

At first I thought it was humorous, these socialists so fouled up; but then I thought of where these people would illegally migrate too.

They would be encouraged by Obama and Pope Francis. -Tom

(An earlier statement by the Pope.-“Francis has said he would have loved to have entered the U.S. via the Mexican border in a "beautiful ... sign of brotherhood and of help to the immigrants." But he said the trip's itinerary was too tight to let him visit the border.”)

[Daaave]

$755? That's chump change. Venezuela could spend $5 billion or more over the next 10 years on Russian military equipment.

Venezuela To Buy More Weaponry From Russia
by Staff Writers Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 29, 2008

[catnipman]

"President Nicolas Maduro announced in June his government was building a condom factory to supply the domestic market. The factory was built, but pharmacy managers say quality has not been what their customers demand.

Commie Condoms from 3rd world socialist hellholes: