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	<title>Comments on: Socialist Venezuela Raids Toilet Paper and Diaper Hoarders</title>
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		<title>By: Eric Schmidt</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Schmidt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In theory, I agree. I believe in free markets.  I also see that when a govt goes down this road, it heads down a road to &#039;nationalize&#039; everything, due to the interconnected nature of market products and services.  

But what we have now in Actual Existence - most acutely in Venezuela and Latin America more generally - are Crony Markets controlled by a few wealthy families.  All the &quot;free market analysis&quot; perspective is rendered entirely moot by this reality.

If you can show the &quot;cost of production&quot; of toilet paper actually exceeds the govt-forced price, that would be helpful, but I doubt those details, of a private corporation, are in the public record - or could be trusted if released (any more than govt &#039;figures&#039; can be trusted).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In theory, I agree. I believe in free markets.  I also see that when a govt goes down this road, it heads down a road to &#8216;nationalize&#8217; everything, due to the interconnected nature of market products and services.  </p>
<p>But what we have now in Actual Existence &#8211; most acutely in Venezuela and Latin America more generally &#8211; are Crony Markets controlled by a few wealthy families.  All the &#8220;free market analysis&#8221; perspective is rendered entirely moot by this reality.</p>
<p>If you can show the &#8220;cost of production&#8221; of toilet paper actually exceeds the govt-forced price, that would be helpful, but I doubt those details, of a private corporation, are in the public record &#8211; or could be trusted if released (any more than govt &#8216;figures&#8217; can be trusted).</p>
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		<title>By: Greg</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s what &#039;price controls&#039; do. What happens when something costs more to make than what the gov&#039;t allows you to sell it for? 
 
Think long and hard about that one. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#039;s what &#039;price controls&#039; do. What happens when something costs more to make than what the gov&#039;t allows you to sell it for? </p>
<p>Think long and hard about that one. </p>
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		<title>By: Larry Fresh</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry Fresh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 01:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, it is called a &quot;Capital Strike&quot; - where the Elite Billionaires who claim to &quot;own&quot; 90%+ of the planet, begin to starve those people who express &quot;insolence&quot; to their rule.  This is being combined with the &#039;paid gang-violence&#039; tactic used to destabilize many nations the West finds unwilling to give away their natural resources and labor on the cheap.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, it is called a &#8220;Capital Strike&#8221; &#8211; where the Elite Billionaires who claim to &#8220;own&#8221; 90%+ of the planet, begin to starve those people who express &#8220;insolence&#8221; to their rule.  This is being combined with the &#8216;paid gang-violence&#8217; tactic used to destabilize many nations the West finds unwilling to give away their natural resources and labor on the cheap.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are 10 reasons to oppose socialism -- just to start.
http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/politically-incorrect/socialism/reasons-reject-socialism.html]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are 10 reasons to oppose socialism &#8212; just to start.<br />
<a href="http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/politically-incorrect/socialism/reasons-reject-socialism.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/politically-incorrect/socialism/reasons-reject-socialism.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: RebeccaJean</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[RebeccaJean]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And her brother who suggested washing the square for reuse!    ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And her brother who suggested washing the square for reuse!    </p>
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		<title>By: onecornpone</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[onecornpone]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 15:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The raid to seize such a limited stash of product indicates that the &lt;b&gt;snitch on your neighbor&lt;/b&gt; phase of communism is in  full play with the Venezuelan  proletariat.   
 
Generalissimo o-Bunghole has made a few forays into activating that sort of behavior among his sycophant base as well.   Oh happy days ahead!    ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The raid to seize such a limited stash of product indicates that the <b>snitch on your neighbor</b> phase of communism is in  full play with the Venezuelan  proletariat.   </p>
<p>Generalissimo o-Bunghole has made a few forays into activating that sort of behavior among his sycophant base as well.   Oh happy days ahead!    </p>
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		<title>By: Sussex Girl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sussex Girl]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While attending college in the mid-1980s, I drove a school van for my daughter&#039;s school.  One of the students I picked up was a 6th grade girl from a Russian immigrant family.  She would tell me jokes about life in Russia under the Communist regime.  One of my favorites had to do with the shortages of almost everything in the stores. 
 
A man walks into a fish store, goes up to the counter, and asks the proprietor, &quot;You don&#039;t have any meat, do you?&quot; 
 
The man sighs and replies, &quot;This is a fish store.  I don&#039;t have any fish.  The man across the street has the butcher shop.  HE doesn&#039;t have any meat.&quot; 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While attending college in the mid-1980s, I drove a school van for my daughter&#039;s school.  One of the students I picked up was a 6th grade girl from a Russian immigrant family.  She would tell me jokes about life in Russia under the Communist regime.  One of my favorites had to do with the shortages of almost everything in the stores. </p>
<p>A man walks into a fish store, goes up to the counter, and asks the proprietor, &quot;You don&#039;t have any meat, do you?&quot; </p>
<p>The man sighs and replies, &quot;This is a fish store.  I don&#039;t have any fish.  The man across the street has the butcher shop.  HE doesn&#039;t have any meat.&quot; </p>
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		<title>By: Flowerknife_us</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Flowerknife_us]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 12:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought the Iranian Cultural exchange showed them how to use their vast stockpiles of stones and rocks. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought the Iranian Cultural exchange showed them how to use their vast stockpiles of stones and rocks. </p>
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		<title>By: Pulsar182</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pulsar182]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 12:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#039;Venezuela&#8217;s Socialist price caps took toilet paper off the market because it was no longer worth producing.&#039; 
 
what happened?  distasteful bodily functions cease? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#039;Venezuela&rsquo;s Socialist price caps took toilet paper off the market because it was no longer worth producing.&#039; </p>
<p>what happened?  distasteful bodily functions cease? </p>
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		<title>By: Brujo Blanco</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brujo Blanco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These things happen when government runs everything.  I was working in a gas station when Carter was president.  A man from our gas supplier came in and told the owner that if he quit car repairs and only pumpe. gas then they would guarantee that he would not run. out of gas.  If Venezuela would.butt out of private enterprise then these things would not happen.  Sounds like a bunch of leftist crap to me. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These things happen when government runs everything.  I was working in a gas station when Carter was president.  A man from our gas supplier came in and told the owner that if he quit car repairs and only pumpe. gas then they would guarantee that he would not run. out of gas.  If Venezuela would.butt out of private enterprise then these things would not happen.  Sounds like a bunch of leftist crap to me. </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sounds like Cheryl Crow&#039;s kinda place! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sounds like Cheryl Crow&#039;s kinda place! </p>
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		<title>By: UCSPanther</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[UCSPanther]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#039;s see the Chavistas, good little commies they are, try to defend Chavez&#039;s legacy, especially this... ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#039;s see the Chavistas, good little commies they are, try to defend Chavez&#039;s legacy, especially this&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: Skater</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Skater]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in then communist Czechoslovakia. We often experienced shortages of toilet paper but still as not often than people in the Soviet Union. We had a joke: In a back street in Moscow Vladimir meets Ivan. Ivan is carrying some really large package under his arm. Vladimir is curious - Hey Ivan, what&#039;s in that huge bundle? 
Ivan says: Toilet paper. Vladimir is totally taken aback....Gee, where did you get this much of toilet paper? Where are you coming from?? Ivan answers: Cleaners... ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I grew up in then communist Czechoslovakia. We often experienced shortages of toilet paper but still as not often than people in the Soviet Union. We had a joke: In a back street in Moscow Vladimir meets Ivan. Ivan is carrying some really large package under his arm. Vladimir is curious &#8211; Hey Ivan, what&#039;s in that huge bundle?<br />
Ivan says: Toilet paper. Vladimir is totally taken aback&#8230;.Gee, where did you get this much of toilet paper? Where are you coming from?? Ivan answers: Cleaners&#8230; </p>
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