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Theo520
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That was my reaction too when my dad talked about what he found behind the supermarket, LOL.
I’m very good about using my own leftovers.
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I’m very good about using my own leftovers.
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Ridgerunner
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Oh, I think we have a very good idea. Maduro despatched some of them to the border to keep provisions out. All dictators have thug squads. It’s how they stay in power. No point in sugar-coating spiders, here.
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qui_est_ce
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There is no food in the supermarkets.
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John24
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What an incredibly odd assertion.
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John24
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Residents empty store shelves ahead of snowstorm
<p>Empty shelves can be seen at several stores across Western Washington as residents try to prepare for another round of snow by week's end.</p>
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When are we deposing Trump?
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qui_est_ce
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What is odd about it?qui_est_ce:
What an incredibly odd assertion.
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qui_est_ce
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Do they have snowstorms in Venzuela?
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Theo520
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The rich are still eating, still getting their food, I bet their super markets are still well stocked.
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Ridgerunner
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My maternal grandfather lost his wife, then his farm, in the Depression. The only thing he had left was a pickup truck. He started cutting wood on other peoples’ places and hauling it to town. Lots of people burned wood then, particularly in cooking stoves. He delivered it to the customers in the alleys behind their houses. He always said that while 25 percent or so of the population was unemployed, that meant 75% or so was employed. And some of them were better off than they were before the Depression. He said he would find things like half a ham, or most of a pie, bread in quantity. He had two little daughters to feed, but he never admitted taking any of the “garbage”, but he always responded as if perhaps he did.
He got 50 cents for a load of wood. Of that, he spent 15 cents on gas, 15 cents on the only meal he, himself, ate, a hamburger at 10 cents and a 5 cent cup of coffee. The rest he spent on his daughters. For a time, he paid a convent of sisters to take care of his daughters while he slept in his truck.
Later, his fortunes improved, of course, to the point he had 500 people hired.
Life can reduce people to things like “dumpster diving” without a lot of trouble.
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John24
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It isn’t based in reality.
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Victoria33
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Animals are starving in zoos, as said, truly very sad thing…
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/animals-starve-in-venezuela-zoos/
Some of these stories were even too sad to repeat, a man’s pet horse was butchered on his property, it was so sad. I guess one can just call all that propaganda but refugees are refugees.
This refers to the horse story, here it says zoo. But anyway.
PS, I do realize the 2nd story is from townhall, I’m sorry if every little reference can not be CNN, CBS and so on. One can search out the news, I saw it originally and it was not in townhall.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/animals-starve-in-venezuela-zoos/
Some of these stories were even too sad to repeat, a man’s pet horse was butchered on his property, it was so sad. I guess one can just call all that propaganda but refugees are refugees.
This refers to the horse story, here it says zoo. But anyway.
PS, I do realize the 2nd story is from townhall, I’m sorry if every little reference can not be CNN, CBS and so on. One can search out the news, I saw it originally and it was not in townhall.
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graciew
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If I may say something, at times like this and not even to the extreme of Venezuela, there are shortages of the basics. Scarcity in extreme sometimes. Real one and by speculation when there is hyperinflation because it really gets all out of hand in the chain of supplies and payment
My grandad who lived with us when a widower , used to be “ in charge of” queuing for sugar and get the milk for us very early in the morning at some very difficult point in our history.
By mid morning there was nothing much left. And not talking about lobster and delicatessen. That wasn t even a thought.
My grandad who lived with us when a widower , used to be “ in charge of” queuing for sugar and get the milk for us very early in the morning at some very difficult point in our history.
By mid morning there was nothing much left. And not talking about lobster and delicatessen. That wasn t even a thought.
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graciew
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I doubt it, Theo. Not as we imagine them…much less your Kroger’s or Randallls and HEB
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Theo520
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There is no food is some supermarkets, I expect the ones in poor areas are bare. These people can’t afford the price after all the inflation.
Stop pretending the whole country is starving, the rich are doing fine. The poor just can’t afford black market prices and the stores lose money when they sell at the official prices.
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Theo520
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I’m not sure what point you are trying to make.
Nobody here has suggested the poor don’t have access to food they can afford.
It’s a serious crisis, but that doesn’t mean the rich aren’t eating and the clever few aren’t rummaging in their trash.
Nobody here has suggested the poor don’t have access to food they can afford.
It’s a serious crisis, but that doesn’t mean the rich aren’t eating and the clever few aren’t rummaging in their trash.
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qui_est_ce
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They imported these poor animals just so they could starve to death. I read some were being slaughtered to feed people.
NPR has great articles on Venezeuala.
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qui_est_ce
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Notice National Geographic is blaming it on the price of oil, when the real problem is lack of investment in infrastructure.National Geographic News – 28 Jul 16
Animals Starving in Venezuela Zoos
The country’s poor economy, triggered by a drop in the price of oil, has led people as well as zoo animals to go hungry.
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I don’t get your point either,
I was supporting your post and adding the issue of shortages to explain why one cannot see a thing in the photo of the supermarket as well.
You may know it but some people imagine it is zero , nothing 24/7 when it is more like by short supply of products, “what there is available today and where”, more of “ what there is and when there is” And better be there early.
Naturally the poor people don t have access to anything here and anywhere, only that even those who “have” in an economy like this one, have a bit less each day.
How would one have stock in a situation of hyper?Not even by miracle.
Your salary is devalued by the day…
I agree with you. Also about the black market issues.
I was supporting your post and adding the issue of shortages to explain why one cannot see a thing in the photo of the supermarket as well.
You may know it but some people imagine it is zero , nothing 24/7 when it is more like by short supply of products, “what there is available today and where”, more of “ what there is and when there is” And better be there early.
Naturally the poor people don t have access to anything here and anywhere, only that even those who “have” in an economy like this one, have a bit less each day.
How would one have stock in a situation of hyper?Not even by miracle.
Your salary is devalued by the day…
I agree with you. Also about the black market issues.
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Socialism: “I promise you this, that, and the other thing!”
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