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| Venezuelans Throng Grocery Stores Under Military Protection |
| 2015-01-10 |
| [BLOOMBERG] Shoppers thronged grocery stores across Caracas today as deepening shortages led the government to put Venezuelas food distribution under military protection. Long lines, some stretching for blocks, formed outside grocery stores in the South American countrys capital as residents search for scarce basic items such as detergent and chicken. I've visited six stores already today looking for detergent -- I cant find it anywhere,said Lisbeth Elsa, a 27-year-old janitor, waiting in line outside a supermarket in eastern Caracas. Were wearing our dirty clothes again because we cant find it. At this point Ill buy whatever I can find. A dearth of foreign currency exacerbated by collapsing oil prices has led to shortages of imports from toilet paper to car batteries, and helped push annual inflation to 64 percent in November. The lines will persist as long as price controls remain in place, Luis Vicente Leon, director of Caracas-based polling firm Datanalisis, said today in a telephone interview. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Robert Kennedy has a lot of his own money to fund such a venture. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-01-10 10:30 |
| #6 ...but with other peoples money, not your own. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-10 09:11 |
| #5 You'd think that Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone et. al. would all get together and send a 747 or two loaded up with detergent down to their good buddies wouldn't you? After all they could afford it and it's the socialist thing to do, isn't it? Help your poorer neighbors, right? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-01-10 08:48 |
| #4 The triumph of Socialism - the lines for the basics of life. Such are the wages of envy, libel, and theft. ROBERT HEINLEIN: Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.” |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-10 07:50 |
| #3 And Acetomiafin, bone break fever on the loose. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-01-10 06:11 |
| #2 Bad weather in the forecast, don't forget to stop for the bread, milk, detergent and chicken. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-10 05:01 |
| #1 Another socialist success story. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-01-10 00:37 |