where the fortune cookie opens to a piece of paper saying
“This IS your toilet paper ration citizen”!
Could there be a small point here, though? A learned helplessness?
I would have blamed racism and George Bush if I had been this reporter.
Enough with the obnoxious clickbait. Here is the freaking quote:
This country had become, you know, you could say, like a rich guy that had forgotten how to cook and had been ordering takeout for years. And suddenly, when the money disappeared, there was no money to buy some of the basics anymore. That model doesn’t change whether the opposition or the Chavistas are in power, whether the left is power or not. That remains the same.
Cooking anything at home in Venezuela is almost impossible when store shelves are bare of even rice, milk, beans and toilet paper. The problem is the result of a command economy where the state dictates not only what will be produced, but also what price should be charged. State set prices that do not cover the cost of production or importation causes producers not to produce and importers not to import. The result...bare shelves. The Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises described the effect of wage and price controls as having a large city with no traffic lights... utter chaos.
I use Cuba to explain Venezuela.
Author does have a point. Becoming dependent on the govt teat results in a lazy helpless population. Hunger is a great stimulant, OTOH.
Feel the Bern.
Right Casey?
5.56mm
There is no consumerism in a socialism. There are no products to consume.
Surprising that they even mentioned Venezuela ... they’ve been avoiding it like honesty, morals and ethics in the Democratic Party.
The problem is most likely due to Chinese takeout. Everyone know when you eat Chinese food, you’re hungry again in an hour.
Nominate that man for 2016 Walter Duranty Award.
He wrote the article based on what he was reading/watching.What is going on in a place like Venezuela would look horrifying.....
There is going to be enormous turmoil going on in this country,if not the whole region around it.
It would look like the collapse of Yugoslavia,or any other communist/socialist hellhole.