« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls  (Read 1876 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline BlueStateSaint

  • Here I come to save the day, because I'm a
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32553
  • Reputation: +1560/-191
  • RIP FDNY Lt. Rich Nappi d. 4/16/12
Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls
« on: May 16, 2013, 08:15:06 AM »
It's a pretty shitty situation . . .

Quote
Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls
Minister blames shortage on 'excessive demand caused by media campaign generated to disrupt the country'

Associated Press in Caracas
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 May 2013 04.31 EDT

First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities – toilet paper.

Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, as it does for other shortages, the government says it will import 50m rolls to boost supplies.

That was little comfort to consumers struggling to find toilet paper on Wednesday.

"This is the last straw," said Manuel Fagundes, a shopper hunting for tissue in Caracas. "I'm 71 years old and this is the first time I've seen this."

One supermarket visited by the Associated Press in the capital on Wednesday was out of toilet paper. Another had just received a fresh batch, and it quickly filled up with shoppers as the word spread.

Just do what the Muzzies do, and use your left hand . . . :o

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/16/venezuela-toilet-paper-shortage-50m
Logged
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk!" -Ayn Rand
 
"Those that trust God with their safety must yet use proper means for their safety, otherwise they tempt Him, and do not trust Him.  God will provide, but so must we also." - Matthew Henry, Commentary on 2 Chronicles 32, from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

"These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to liberty than street criminals or foreign spies."--Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor

Chase her.
Chase her even when she's yours.
That's the only way you'll be assured to never lose her.

Offline DumbAss Tanker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 28493
  • Reputation: +1710/-151
Re: Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2013, 08:37:42 AM »
Well, that should take care of that shit!
Logged
Go and tell the Spartans, O traveler passing by
That here, obedient to their law, we lie.

Anything worth shooting once is worth shooting at least twice.

Offline Dori

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7964
  • Reputation: +406/-39
Re: Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2013, 09:10:25 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on May 16, 2013, 08:37:42 AM
Well, that should take care of that shit!

Not for long. There are appx. 28 million people in Venezuela.  If they go through it like my household does, it won't last them a week.

Logged
“How fortunate for governments that the people     they administer don't think”  Adolph Hitler

Offline NHSparky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24431
  • Reputation: +1280/-617
  • Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!
Re: Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2013, 11:32:06 AM »
That's a shitload of TP.
Logged
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford

Offline Eupher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24894
  • Reputation: +2835/-1828
  • U.S. Army, Retired
Re: Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2013, 11:57:29 AM »
Think of the skidmarks chillrun!  :-)
Logged
Adams E2 Euphonium, built in 2017
Boosey & Co. Imperial Euphonium, built in 1941
Edwards B454 bass trombone, built 2012
Bach Stradivarius 42OG tenor trombone, built 1992
Kanstul 33-T BBb tuba, built 2011
Fender Precision Bass Guitar, built ?
Mouthpiece data provided on request.

Offline Wineslob

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14480
  • Reputation: +816/-193
  • Sucking the life out of Liberty
Re: Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2013, 12:06:46 PM »
I hope they can wipe out this problem.
Logged
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

        -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC (106-43 BC)

The unobtainable is unknown at Zombo.com



"Practice random violence and senseless acts of brutality"

If you want a gender neutral bathroom, go pee in the forest.

Offline mrclose

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2256
  • Reputation: +164/-39
Re: Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2013, 09:42:59 PM »
Logged
"When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead.
It is difficult only for the others.

It is the same when you are stupid."
~ Anonymous

Offline Mr Mannn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14885
  • Reputation: +2648/-276
Re: Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2013, 08:22:00 AM »
socialist policies cannot meet the needs of the people. Never ever.

Hugo needs to page Sheryl Crow. She can fix it.
Logged

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1998/-134
Re: Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2013, 09:51:43 AM »
Socialism has the answer.....kill more people thus using less TP.
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline vesta111

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9712
  • Reputation: +493/-1154
Re: Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2013, 01:26:53 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on May 19, 2013, 09:51:43 AM
Socialism has the answer.....kill more people thus using less TP.

Back it the end of 69 there was a shipping strike that caused horror to the people in Honolulu.  We with commissary privileges had no problem but the civilians were up shits creek literally.

What a mess anyone with a base sticker was at risk of strangers offering over a dollar a roll to us if we would buy it for them.   Darn they got mad when we refused, worse then when we refused to buy then cigarettes at the exchange.   

You have no idea how worked up people get when any kind of military base is in the area that supplies the service men and and family's with something they the civilions desperately need.

I would say the toilet paper wars would bring a government to their knees. 
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »