100,000 Venezuelans cross border shopping for scarce food

[Siete]

straighten that shit up right now.. give top 1%rs a friggin set of tax cuts.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

i wonder how much a 20/24 oz box of hot pockets go for in these times of desperation(just have to worry about what kind of meat is in there)

 

[Theowl32]

i wonder how much a 20/24 oz box of hot pockets go for in these times of desperation(just have to worry about what kind of meat is in there)

Fries at McDonalds would cost you $126

A Large McDonald’s Fries Will Cost You This Much in Venezuela

Not to worry though. The left think the poor should be eating like them anyway. Meaning, no low cost junk food.

They think the poor should be eating at Panera Bread or places like this.
Christopher's Kitchen.

Yes, pinky raising, wine sipping, poetry reading place for the left wing elite is VEGETARIAN.
LOL, just read the menu. The high priced menu.

Do you know the stupid elite left wing morons think the poor (that they care so much for lol) think they ought to be eating at high priced vegetarian places.....

Just like them.

So, the cost of a cheeseburger in Venezuela is of no concern to them.

Doesn't concern Glover at all. Does it?

 

[Rexx Taylor]

i wonder how much a 20/24 oz box of hot pockets go for in these times of desperation(just have to worry about what kind of meat is in there)

Fries at McDonalds would cost you $126

A Large McDonald’s Fries Will Cost You This Much in Venezuela

Not to worry though. The left think the poor should be eating like them anyway. Meaning, no low cost junk food.

They think the poor should be eating at Panera Bread or places like this.
Christopher's Kitchen.

Yes, pinky raising, wine sipping, poetry reading place for the left wing elite is VEGETARIAN.
LOL, just read the menu. The high priced menu.

Do you know the stupid elite left wing morons think the poor (that they care so much for lol) think they ought to be eating at high priced vegetarian places.....

Just like them.

So, the cost of a cheeseburger in Venezuela is of no concern to them.

Doesn't concern Glover at all. Does it?

but what kind of meat do they use? Horse? Pidgeon? Goat? Horse? Human?

 

[Zander]

Venezuela, like Cuba, is a workers paradise!!

Be sure to bring your own Toilet Paper!

 

[bripat9643]

This isn't because of poor management of the monetary system, or that there are shortages in all economies.

What's going on in Venezuela is because of gross mismanagement of the economy by the Chavez and Maduro governments. There were shortages before the price of oil collapsed.

These two idiots were grossly ignorant on how an economy runs. There are so many examples in Venezuela, it's hard to know where to start.

But ultimately, they tried to set prices to benefit the poor and wound up creating shortages everywhere. And rather than blame their own gross incompetence, they blamed capitalists, America, speculators, and pretty much everyone else.

Socialists and communists who don't understand how the price system works are ultimately bound to fail, as they have over and over and over again.

Marx said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Venezuela is about as farcical as it gets, since this has happened several times in Latin America before. It's doubly farcical since Chavez effectively was following Marxist principles.

The two idiots instituted price controls in response to rising inflation in an effort to help the poor. That and the devaluation of the bolivar due to the controls on foreign exchange and the labyrinth of exchange rates which created a black market. Either way you look at it, poor monetary policies appear to be the culprit.

Neither of the idiots was/are Marxist.

Creating money out of thin air is always the cause of inflation. All governments do this, because it's so easy to fund government boondoggles when you don't need the permission of the taxpayers, but a couple of economic ignoramuses like Chavez and Maduro don't know the downside of such policies.

 

[bripat9643]

Shortages have occurred under all forms of governments.............

Wrong. They only occur under command economies. Name one market economy that has ever had a shortage of anything unless the government was controlling the price.

England... Ireland, tariffs are a way of a govt. trying to control prices...When the English went to a free market system in the later 1800's they had a 19 year recession..Look what free trade has done to the US economy....Do you enjoy your NAFTA?

Tariffs are not government price controls. They are taxes. I have no idea what you mean by "free market system. England had been gradually moving in that direction for a couple of centuries. So what is the demarcation of this "free market system" you refer to?

According to Wikipedia:

Long Depression 1873-96 Deflation but no reduction in real GDP Panic of 1873 World-wide, but Britain hit worst and longest. Previously known as the "Great Depression". Agricultural deflation hit farmers and their workers, although industrial output continued to grow.​

This isn't a depression. It's the normal state of things during an industrial revolution. Agricultural prices continue to slide as worker productivity increases. How can you have a depression when GDP is expanding? That's what invariably happens as society becomes more industrialized.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

i have always wondered what happened to the hot dog stands in venezuela, what have they been serving this year? very large/fat cockroaches on a bun?

 

[BluesLegend]

straighten that shit up right now.. give top 1%rs a friggin set of tax cuts.

Hey cut my taxes excellent idea, why should I have to pay the bills of a bunch of fat lazy do nothing moochers.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

i have always wondered what species of animal raced to Columbia once they found out that they ate all of the dogs and cats. Squirrles?

 

[Windship]

Oh, the joys of socialism.

Second that.^^^

lol, and your both unbelievably stupid...you think thats socialism? No wonder. Lol

 

[Theowl32]

Oh, the joys of socialism.

Second that.^^^

lol, and your both unbelievably stupid...you think thats socialism? No wonder. Lol

What do Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte think it is?

What do you think it is?

 

[Rexx Taylor]

if things were to get any worse in venz. i am pretty sure that when someone drops dead in the streets, the living ones will fight to the death over the corpse.

 

[bripat9643]

Oh, the joys of socialism.

Second that.^^^

lol, and your both unbelievably stupid...you think thats socialism? No wonder. Lol

It's "you're" not "your," dumbass. it's also "that's" instead of "thats."

Two grammatical errors in 13 words, and I haven't even started on your punctuation and capitalization.

Pretty fucking sad.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

i have always wondered what a "ManBurger" tasted like, with onions/mushrooms/mayo/tomatoes, medium rare, and french fries made from 100% dirt. (well,being they have no potatoes left there}

 

[Kat]

i have always wondered what a "ManBurger" tasted like, with onions/mushrooms/mayo/tomatoes, medium rare, and french fries made from 100% dirt. (well,being they have no potatoes left there}

Medium rare?? Ugh. No can do medium rare. I don't like bloody buns. (sorry)

 

[owebo]

straighten that shit up right now.. give top 1%rs a friggin set of tax cuts.

Just give them their stuff back.....perhaps they will open the doors again and start employing people......

 

[ScienceRocks]

I want a bigger private sector
Sure, I want a respectable public sector and public investment, but!
I want more wealth being in the hands of more people
I want more science advancement = more products that make big money!
I want more rich people

Yet I am a commie, lol

 

[owebo]

I want a bigger private sector
Sure, I want a respectable public sector and public investment, but!
I want more wealth being in the ends of more people
I want more science advancement = more products that make big money!
I want more rich people

Yet I am a commie, lol

You want to take my wealth to make those things happen.....commie....

 

[ScienceRocks]

I want a bigger private sector
Sure, I want a respectable public sector and public investment, but!
I want more wealth being in the ends of more people
I want more science advancement = more products that make big money!
I want more rich people

Yet I am a commie, lol

You want to take my wealth to make those things happen.....commie....

Name a nation that doesn't have taxes to pay for the roads, police, military, clean air, water and food standards, invest in science, r&d, etc. You can't.

If you use the resources, as you do for being in this country = you need to pay taxes. It is fair.