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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/29/us-venezuela-economy-idUSBREA3S14820140429

(Reuters) - Venezuela's largest private company, Empresas Polar, said on Tuesday it was halting production of pasta due to delays in foreign currency allocations from the government.
President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government is holding meetings with business leaders in efforts to boost productivity in the OPEC nation. But firms continue to complain of problems including currency restrictions.
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It goes on. This company Polar is the Venezuelan equivalent of what General Mills is here.

So, why is this important? Because it's exhibit No. 5,937 of what happens when the government tries to get involved in the private sector...it is a dead lock that it will result in a complete fuck-up.

Ever notice how the programs intended to help the poor usually end up hurting the poor the worst? First there was a rice shortage, then toilet paper shortage, then a beans shortage, now it's pasta...and I'm probably missing a few. If you've ever been broke (and who hasn't if they went to college?), you know pasta is a very inexpensive meal that can fill you up because of the carbs in it. If you didn't know a few dozen students on campus whose diet consisted of mac and cheese and beer, then you must have been doing something wrong. Anyway, what happens now that there is a pasta shortage? Well, the demand for food isn't going away anytime soon, so that puts pressure on the price of substitute products. What happens then? Those of you who have even a basic ability to reason already know. I'll let the rest of you try to chew on it for a while.

Check this out...and ask yourself why this couldn't happen in the US:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/29/us-venezuela-homeless-idUSBREA3S0DQ20140429

(Reuters) - Huge queues at supermarkets and shortages of basic products have become the norm in Venezuela over the last year - and the most needy are increasingly at the sharp edge.
Workers at soup kitchens for the homeless and hungry face an ever-more difficult task to find rice, lentils, flour and other staples to provide a free daily hot meal.
"I queue for hours every day because you can only get one thing one day, another the next," said Fernanda Bolivar, 54, who has worked for 11 years at the church-supported "Mother Teresa" soup kitchen in a back-street of downtown Caracas.
"The situation's got terrible in the last year," she said, in a dingy kitchen at the center named for the Roman Catholic nun who helped the poor and dying in India.
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That goes on, too. And I'll bet you any amount you like that the vast majority of those people standing in lines waiting for food were huge Hugo Chavez supporters as recently as 5-10 years ago. Now, can someone give me one difference in policy between Chavez and the Stuttering Clusterfuck? You can't, because there isn't one. And the above scenario is exactly where this country is headed under this miserable administration's leadership.
 

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I’m not sure we’re close to bread lines and soup kitchens yet, but food prices have risen considerably over the last year.

My cost for food has gone up about a $100 a week.
 

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Socialism:

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It stands to reason that people will be more innovative, productive and efficient when they are free than when they are shackled by Big Government.

Why can't the left understand this?

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It stands to reason that people will be more innovative, productive and efficient when they are free than when they are shackled by Big Government.

Why can't the left understand this?

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Good question. I’m sure AK will be along shortly to give us his intellectually challenged opinion.
 

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Good question. I’m sure AK will be along shortly to give us his intellectually challenged opinion.

He once insisted people were just as productive in shackles vs when they are free. When we got into specifics (ie, North vs South Korea) he launched into his usual carnival routine of littering the thread with useless charts and telling everyone how dumb they are.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only a pseudo-intellectual like fratfraud could ignore or evade it.
 

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It stands to reason that people will be more innovative, productive and efficient when they are free than when they are shackled by Big Government.

Why can't the left understand this?

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Some don't have the mental capacity to understand. Others do, but they would bizarrely prefer to cling to their fantasy that central planning is a magical fix. And the final group thinks they're right when they're actually wrong...ie "that could never happen in the US." A certain 130-lb placekick holder falls into this category. Failed central planning policy has nothing to do with longitude/latitude and everything to do with its inherently flawed premises. Every single fucking time it's been tried around the world, it has failed miserably. Why it fails just doesn't sink in for so many dimwits.

Dave, I wasn't suggesting we're going to start seeing food lines soon. What worries me though is exactly what you said...the price of food has increased dramatically in recent years. I just did my shopping last night and can't believe the bill. $100 only gets you about half a week's worth of stuff now. And I wouldn't put it past the Stuttering Clusterfuck's administration to suddenly step in and say "Boy, food prices are getting too high. We need to make it affordable for everyone! That is only fair!" That's what happened with heath care, after all. Remember this quote from the 2008 debates? I'm paraphrasing, but it was something like "We will come in and work with your companies to lower the costs associated with employee health care." Really? And how the fuck do you propose do that, exactly?

My point was Chavez and the Stuttering Clusterfuck seem like carbon copies of each other. Just worried some of the same policies implemented in Venezuela will find their way up north.
 

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Chavez and the Stuttering Clusterfuck are carbon copies.

The left will call us paranoid and hyperbolic...fuck'em - ideologically they are identical twins.

The difference between Venezuela and the US is the number of constitutional "checks and balances" which have slowed the Kenyan's "fundamental transformation" to a degree...but only to a degree.

A few more years of Zero's Soviet-style 5 year plans (from Obamacare, to cap and trade by executive fiat, massive regulations and the militarization of government agencies) and we'll start seeing toilet paper and rice shortages in the USA as well.

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The nightmare of food shopping in Venezuela

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Empty shelves, like these at a supermarket in Caracas, are a common sight in Venezuela. People can shop only on designated days at government-run stores. They're limited in what they can buy and must undergo fingerprint scanning to prove their identity.




Good story to read. Looks awesome. Can't wait for this to arrive in the States in the name of "fairness."
 

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fingerprint scanning because basic necessities like FOOD are in such short supply :ohno:

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Amazing the liberals in here would still vote for Bernie if he gets the nod over Hillary somehow. Fucking sick group of fucks in here. Here is who would vote for Bernie in order of strength and conviction.

1) Guesser - this clown actually likes Bernie and will probably vote for him in the primaries
2) DuhFinch - Gotta keep the lights on in Grammy's basement
3) Akphidelt - poor kid, hope he's doing ok. The Native/Alaskan/Socialism angle would keep the Rye on the shelves
4) Vitterd - Is there any question? They could run Krusty the Clown across the stage and he would vote for him over Jesus himself, as long as Krusty is a (D)
5) Gtc90210 - I kinda miss this guy. He was as bad as any of the 4 mentioned above him, but somewhat likable

WE ARE THE DEMS! WE DON'T CARE WHO WINS THE POTUS, AS LONG AS THEY AREN'T REPUBLICAN !! ! !
 

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Amazing the liberals in here would still vote for Bernie if he gets the nod over Hillary somehow. Fucking sick group of fucks in here. Here is who would vote for Bernie in order of strength and conviction.

1) Guesser - this clown actually likes Bernie and will probably vote for him in the primaries
2) DuhFinch - Gotta keep the lights on in Grammy's basement
3) Akphidelt - poor kid, hope he's doing ok. The Native/Alaskan/Socialism angle would keep the Rye on the shelves
4) Vitterd - Is there any question? They could run Krusty the Clown across the stage and he would vote for him over Jesus himself, as long as Krusty is a (D)
5) Gtc90210 - I kinda miss this guy. He was as bad as any of the 4 mentioned above him, but somewhat likable

WE ARE THE DEMS! WE DON'T CARE WHO WINS THE POTUS, AS LONG AS THEY AREN'T REPUBLICAN !! ! !
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fingerprint scanning because basic necessities like FOOD are in such short supply :ohno:


What's funny is the dipshit dims can't grasp the fact that there already ARE "price controls" in place in the free market. It's called competition.

If one apple farmer suddenly decided to start charging $100/apple while the rest of his competitors didn't change their price for a very similar product, the $100 guy will start drowning in his own inventory almost immediately. I don't know where the idea came from that these evil producers of products can just charge whatever they like...couldn't be further from the truth.

But hey, viva equality!
 

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Citgo commercials always brag, "brought to you by the people of Venezuela." In these commercials they claim to help low income American families with home heating oil etc. Considering what this gov't does to their own this is mind-boggling. I still remember Chavez standing at the UN podium after Bush finished a speech. His first words were, "I smell sulfer." Hah, that Fucking Bastard. If there's a Hell Chavez is on Permafire!
 

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The lesson of Venezuela is it wasn't always this way. Some socialist demagogue promising to soak the rich, enrich the poor and "fundamentally transform" the country, got elected.

Now Venezuelans have their fingerprints scanned when buying groceries.

"In a democracy, people get the government they deserve" -- Alexis de Toqueville

Time and again, when people vote for Utopia, they end up in Hell.
 
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Amazing the liberals in here would still vote for Bernie if he gets the nod over Hillary somehow. Fucking sick group of fucks in here. Here is who would vote for Bernie in order of strength and conviction.

1) Guesser - this clown actually likes Bernie and will probably vote for him in the primaries
2) DuhFinch - Gotta keep the lights on in Grammy's basement
3) Akphidelt - poor kid, hope he's doing ok. The Native/Alaskan/Socialism angle would keep the Rye on the shelves
4) Vitterd - Is there any question? They could run Krusty the Clown across the stage and he would vote for him over Jesus himself, as long as Krusty is a (D)
5) Gtc90210 - I kinda miss this guy. He was as bad as any of the 4 mentioned above him, but somewhat likable

WE ARE THE DEMS! WE DON'T CARE WHO WINS THE POTUS, AS LONG AS THEY AREN'T REPUBLICAN !! ! !

I know more about Bernie Sanders than anyone in here, he was the mayor of the city I grew up in (Burlington, Vermont). The guy is a certified nut-job,
an avowed socialist, and commie-sympathizer. The bastard praised Castro many times, and hung a communist soviet flag over his office in Burlington.

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"A lot of people don’t know this, but Bernie actually hung a Soviet Flag in office when he was mayor of Burlington. According to reporter Trevor Louden, Bernie hung the Soviet flag in his office to honor the Soviet sister city of Yaroslavl. You know, singing praises to the opposing side while you’re at war might seem treasonous to some, but if you’re a mayor of a major city, it’s perfectly acceptable and everyone will forget about it. No need to mention that the USSR was responsible for what some believe to be the biggest genocide in history. You’d be crazy to call Bernie a Communist. He only proudly hung their flag in his office."

It's astounding that people are stupid enough to support this scum nut-bag. (Not surprising that sewer rat Guesser does...)

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I know more about Bernie Sanders than anyone in here, he was the mayor of the city I grew up in (Burlington, Vermont). The guy is a certified nut-job,
an avowed socialist, and commie-sympathizer. The bastard praised Castro many times, and hung a communist soviet flag over his office in Burlington.

And good for at least 45% of the popular vote.
 

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As expected, no sick fuck liberal will even touch this thread.
 

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