Venezuela Responds to Bread Shortage ... By Arresting Bakers and Seizing Bakeries
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Busy Babushka!
Could you please include some facts in this thread ?
The Venezuelan government says it will expropriate bakeries which fail to abide by new government regulations aimed at tackling bread shortages.
In a growing row between the government and bakers, officials said that bakeries could face fines if people had to queue to get their bread.
Severe shortages of basic goods mean that Venezuelans often have to queue for hours to buy essential items.
Venezuela does not produce wheat and relies on imports bought in by the government which it then sends to mills where it is ground and then distributed.
The government blames bakers for the bread shortages, accusing them of using the flour allocated to them to bake pastries rather than simple baguette-style bread in order to maximise their profits.
But the baker's federation, Fevipan, says it cannot produce more bread unless its members are given more flour.On Tuesday, it said in a tweet [in Spanish] that 80% of bakeries had "zero inventory", while the remaining bakeries had only received 10% of the monthly supplies.
What the BBC does not discuss, it the halving of the social classes. People that are fortunate enough to have connections to the government, have access to jobs, money, food, transportation, health care. Everyone else must fend for themselves,to the best of their ability. What is not being discussed, is the black market, and charity goods getting sold for profit. It is possible that the wheat products are going to the kitchens of the well connected.
The government has almost total control over consumer goods and services. Well connected and employed people can afford to buy delicious pastries.
This is a pre- view of what the Trumpenreich of America has in store for us.
A split down the middle, and a gray area between fortunate and unfortunate. Betray the common people and work for the current regime, and there will be rewards for the fortunate few.
We must live with corruption, because it is part of human nature. The system we had in America, before the election was limping along.With a Democratic president, we may have been able to regain some balance. The whole world is in a state of flux.
Now, the Extreme Right has gained the confidence to display how brutal and unfeeling their rule could become. They will destroy a healthy ecomony in order to insure their hold on power.
We will not be any better off than Venezuela,if they get their way.
Could you please include some facts in this thread ?
The Venezuelan government says it will expropriate bakeries which fail to abide by new government regulations aimed at tackling bread shortages.
In a growing row between the government and bakers, officials said that bakeries could face fines if people had to queue to get their bread.
Severe shortages of basic goods mean that Venezuelans often have to queue for hours to buy essential items.
Venezuela does not produce wheat and relies on imports bought in by the government which it then sends to mills where it is ground and then distributed.
The government blames bakers for the bread shortages, accusing them of using the flour allocated to them to bake pastries rather than simple baguette-style bread in order to maximise their profits.
But the baker's federation, Fevipan, says it cannot produce more bread unless its members are given more flour.On Tuesday, it said in a tweet [in Spanish] that 80% of bakeries had "zero inventory", while the remaining bakeries had only received 10% of the monthly supplies.
What the BBC does not discuss, it the halving of the social classes. People that are fortunate enough to have connections to the government, have access to jobs, money, food, transportation, health care. Everyone else must fend for themselves,to the best of their ability. What is not being discussed, is the black market, and charity goods getting sold for profit. It is possible that the wheat products are going to the kitchens of the well connected.
The government has almost total control over consumer goods and services. Well connected and employed people can afford to buy delicious pastries.
This is a pre- view of what the Trumpenreich of America has in store for us.
A split down the middle, and a gray area between fortunate and unfortunate. Betray the common people and work for the current regime, and there will be rewards for the fortunate few.
We must live with corruption, because it is part of human nature. The system we had in America, before the election was limping along.With a Democratic president, we may have been able to regain some balance. The whole world is in a state of flux.
Now, the Extreme Right has gained the confidence to display how brutal and unfeeling their rule could become. They will destroy a healthy ecomony in order to insure their hold on power.
We will not be any better off than Venezuela,if they get their way.
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And in the core of the socialist mindset that gives them the right to go take from and destroy the producers of those essential items they have a "right" to.
And it get's down to that as the last of the producers is crushed under that boot of socialism.
Soon many will be starving by the literal truckload, spurring more government regulations hostile to the capitalist pigs!! Because penalizing and regulating against the hand that feeds is what works so well....
I wonder if they will make to the point they are putting out propaganda posters telling people to stop eating their kids like the Soviets.
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Busy Babushka!
Could you please include some facts in this thread ?
Here's a fact: If people in Venezuela aren't already starving they will be soon, and it won't be because of business practices.
Busy Babushka!
Could you please include some facts in this thread ?
The Venezuelan government says it will expropriate bakeries which fail to abide by new government regulations aimed at tackling bread shortages.
In a growing row between the government and bakers, officials said that bakeries could face fines if people had to queue to get their bread.
Severe shortages of basic goods mean that Venezuelans often have to queue for hours to buy essential items.
Venezuela does not produce wheat and relies on imports bought in by the government which it then sends to mills where it is ground and then distributed.
The government blames bakers for the bread shortages, accusing them of using the flour allocated to them to bake pastries rather than simple baguette-style bread in order to maximise their profits.
But the baker's federation, Fevipan, says it cannot produce more bread unless its members are given more flour.On Tuesday, it said in a tweet [in Spanish] that 80% of bakeries had "zero inventory", while the remaining bakeries had only received 10% of the monthly supplies.
What the BBC does not discuss, it the halving of the social classes. People that are fortunate enough to have connections to the government, have access to jobs, money, food, transportation, health care. Everyone else must fend for themselves,to the best of their ability. What is not being discussed, is the black market, and charity goods getting sold for profit. It is possible that the wheat products are going to the kitchens of the well connected.
The government has almost total control over consumer goods and services. Well connected and employed people can afford to buy delicious pastries.
This is a pre- view of what the Trumpenreich of America has in store for us.
A split down the middle, and a gray area between fortunate and unfortunate. Betray the common people and work for the current regime, and there will be rewards for the fortunate few.
We must live with corruption, because it is part of human nature. The system we had in America, before the election was limping along.With a Democratic president, we may have been able to regain some balance. The whole world is in a state of flux.
Now, the Extreme Right has gained the confidence to display how brutal and unfeeling their rule could become. They will destroy a healthy ecomony in order to insure their hold on power.
We will not be any better off than Venezuela,if they get their way.
Yes, absolutely. Let's put more socialists in charge so we can avoid the disaster of socialism.
Fucking brilliant.
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Busy Babushka!
Could you please include some facts in this thread ?
The Venezuelan government says it will expropriate bakeries which fail to abide by new government regulations aimed at tackling bread shortages.
In a growing row between the government and bakers, officials said that bakeries could face fines if people had to queue to get their bread.
Severe shortages of basic goods mean that Venezuelans often have to queue for hours to buy essential items.
Venezuela does not produce wheat and relies on imports bought in by the government which it then sends to mills where it is ground and then distributed.
The government blames bakers for the bread shortages, accusing them of using the flour allocated to them to bake pastries rather than simple baguette-style bread in order to maximise their profits.
But the baker's federation, Fevipan, says it cannot produce more bread unless its members are given more flour.On Tuesday, it said in a tweet [in Spanish] that 80% of bakeries had "zero inventory", while the remaining bakeries had only received 10% of the monthly supplies.
What the BBC does not discuss, it the halving of the social classes. People that are fortunate enough to have connections to the government, have access to jobs, money, food, transportation, health care. Everyone else must fend for themselves,to the best of their ability. What is not being discussed, is the black market, and charity goods getting sold for profit. It is possible that the wheat products are going to the kitchens of the well connected.
The government has almost total control over consumer goods and services. Well connected and employed people can afford to buy delicious pastries.
This is a pre- view of what the Trumpenreich of America has in store for us.
A split down the middle, and a gray area between fortunate and unfortunate. Betray the common people and work for the current regime, and there will be rewards for the fortunate few.
We must live with corruption, because it is part of human nature. The system we had in America, before the election was limping along.With a Democratic president, we may have been able to regain some balance. The whole world is in a state of flux.
Now, the Extreme Right has gained the confidence to display how brutal and unfeeling their rule could become. They will destroy a healthy ecomony in order to insure their hold on power.
We will not be any better off than Venezuela,if they get their way.
The above, supported by a series of little idiocies, is an example of the danger presented by the politically and economically illiterate, pretending to understand the failures of the Socialist economic model as something other than what it really is, an unqualified government failure in the allocation of goods and services when compared to free market economies.
The poster gotsnowgotslush is completely divorced from economic reality in his/her analysis of the present reality.
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If North Korea and Venezuela got into a shooting war it would probably be over in 15 minutes when both sides run out of food.
I suspect most of the food in NK is allocated to their military, so they might prevail in such a contest. So they'd still be snooping and pooping while the Venezuelans were wishing they had enough energy to snoop and something poop.
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Every socialist regime fails for the same reason: It eats all the food and murders its farmers. Its the story of Russia b efore world war 2, its the story of Spain before Franco, etc. People in socialist nations starve.
UTOPIAS ELSEWHERE by Anthony Daniels is a greatr book to read about how the old Soviet Empire died. Daniels visited all the old commie shitholes and exposed their misery.
From Kirkus Reviews
Biting account of the outer squalor and inner landscape of totalitarianism found in Albania, North Korea, Romania, Vietnam, and Cuba; by British psychiatrist and travel-writer Daniels (Coups and Cocaine, 1986, etc.), who in 1989 visited Communist states still refusing the pull toward democracy then engulfing the Soviet sphere. Straight away, writing of Marx and Lenin, Daniels trumpets his anti-Communist stance: ``Below the surface of their compassion for the poor seethed the molten lava of their hatred, which they had not enough self-knowledge to realize.'' He then presents a scathing travelogue of five different styles of inhumanity and deceit used with little success by five small Communist states to bring about ``The New Man.'' Among the chillingly absurd scenes of subjection he describes is a visit to North Korea's ``Department Store No. 1,'' shown to visitors to testify to consumer-goods production; Daniels says that the thousands of ``shoppers'' riding the escalators and browsing are not permitted to buy any of the shoddy goods on display but actually are paid (with a pair of ugly brown socks) to pretend to shop. In Romania under the Ceausescus, he says, shortages of necessities were planned to ``keep people's minds strictly on bread and sausages, and divert their energies to procuring them so that there was no time or inclination left for subversion.'' Amid the gray concrete housing blocks of Albania (where, Daniels claims, an entire family is sent to the mines if a member escapes the country), he finds a pyramidal museum devoted to founding dictator Enver Hoxha's life--a life, we're told, that has been rewritten by the government to make mediocrity appear godlike. A hardly unbiased study of the banality of evil under authoritarian Communism. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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UTOPIAS ELSEWHERE by Anthony Daniels is a greatr book to read about how the old Soviet Empire died. Daniels visited all the old commie shitholes and exposed their misery.
From Kirkus Reviews
Biting account of the outer squalor and inner landscape of totalitarianism found in Albania, North Korea, Romania, Vietnam, and Cuba; by British psychiatrist and travel-writer Daniels (Coups and Cocaine, 1986, etc.), who in 1989 visited Communist states still refusing the pull toward democracy then engulfing the Soviet sphere. Straight away, writing of Marx and Lenin, Daniels trumpets his anti-Communist stance: ``Below the surface of their compassion for the poor seethed the molten lava of their hatred, which they had not enough self-knowledge to realize.'' He then presents a scathing travelogue of five different styles of inhumanity and deceit used with little success by five small Communist states to bring about ``The New Man.'' Among the chillingly absurd scenes of subjection he describes is a visit to North Korea's ``Department Store No. 1,'' shown to visitors to testify to consumer-goods production; Daniels says that the thousands of ``shoppers'' riding the escalators and browsing are not permitted to buy any of the shoddy goods on display but actually are paid (with a pair of ugly brown socks) to pretend to shop. In Romania under the Ceausescus, he says, shortages of necessities were planned to ``keep people's minds strictly on bread and sausages, and divert their energies to procuring them so that there was no time or inclination left for subversion.'' Amid the gray concrete housing blocks of Albania (where, Daniels claims, an entire family is sent to the mines if a member escapes the country), he finds a pyramidal museum devoted to founding dictator Enver Hoxha's life--a life, we're told, that has been rewritten by the government to make mediocrity appear godlike. A hardly unbiased study of the banality of evil under authoritarian Communism. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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