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2009-11-04 Caribbean-Latin America

Water rationing for Venezuela's capital city

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 funny how shortages always follow on the heals of a shift to social-ism...

Posted by abu do you love ">abu do you love 2009-11-04 01:05|| 2009-11-04 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 I can picture Hugo doing his best Marie Antoinette impression and opining, "Let them drink oil!"

At this rate, the common man in Venezuela will want to string Hugo up for the economic damage the odious little President-for-Life continues to inflict.

Posted by Jinens Lumplump6738 2009-11-04 02:05|| 2009-11-04 02:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Ya, just wait when they start resolving the lack of supply of toilet paper by increased production of locomotives!

(The Venezuelans will have the privilege to understand the joke above pretty soon)

Posted by twobyfour 2009-11-04 02:08|| 2009-11-04 02:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Rationing in a socia!ist system, how surprising. Not. Welcome to the future of Obamacare serfs. You think Hugo and his buddies are subject to rationing of the stuff? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-04 07:13|| 2009-11-04 07:13|| Front Page Top

#5 "After five years, there would be a shortage of sand."
-- Punchline to old Soviet joke

Posted by mojo 2009-11-04 10:26|| 2009-11-04 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 ...isn't Venezuelan a tropical country? I mean, running out of water there is like running out of sand in Yemen, isn't it?

Posted by Secret Master 2009-11-04 11:48|| 2009-11-04 11:48|| Front Page Top

#7 What will the rich fill their swimming pools with?"

With the blood of the poor, of course. Just like here in America! Interesting how tyranny always needs a scapegoat

Posted by SteveS 2009-11-04 14:11|| 2009-11-04 14:11|| Front Page Top

#8 WHAT, you're telling me they can't dig a well or two where needed?
Or are the "Peasants" Just too used to "Free" and Can't think without orders, too damn lazy?

I needed water so I drilled a well myself, nothing to it, took about one day, then another too seal it and install a pump.

If they're too poor, leave off the pump and draw water by hand, plans are all over the internet.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-11-04 19:14|| 2009-11-04 19:14|| Front Page Top

#9 uh huh...drilling a well in downtown Caracas? Care to drink that, or even bathe in it?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-11-04 19:18|| 2009-11-04 19:18|| Front Page Top

#10 About 2/3 of the northern bit of Venezuela, where all the people are, is semi-arid.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-11-04 19:23|| 2009-11-04 19:23|| Front Page Top

#11 "If they're too poor, leave off the pump and draw water by hand, plans are all over the internet."

I see a slight flaw in that plan, Jim....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-11-04 19:30|| 2009-11-04 19:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey, the Internet! Let's just FTP them some water.

Posted by SteveS 2009-11-04 20:45|| 2009-11-04 20:45|| Front Page Top

#13 So that's what the eggheads meant by fast internet pipe.

Posted by ed 2009-11-04 20:52|| 2009-11-04 20:52|| Front Page Top

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