“It now takes approximately 85 million Zimbabwean dollars for a family of five to live each month.
Another shining moment in that giant human experiment called “socialism”.
More at Austin Bay.
“It now takes approximately 85 million Zimbabwean dollars for a family of five to live each month.
Another shining moment in that giant human experiment called “socialism”.
More at Austin Bay.
Gee, what’s its exchange rate with the Venezuelan bolivar?
Too bad Zimbabwe doesnt have oil.
The jokers still milking colonialism. Talk about losing moral high ground. The only people who can influence things – the Africans – dont want to be seen as siding with former imperial states over a man who did, after all, kick out one of the more brutal and repressive white regimes.
Such is the state of affairs, that even a moral stance is reduced to nothing, having been undermined by a historical record that can hardly be described as moral.
And who suffer? The people of Zimbabwe. But they re expendable. They re not Americans. Or Israelis. Who cares what happens to them.
I agree. We should invade and take out their leader.
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/03/17/zimbabwe-cio-kidnap-gift-tandares-body-from-funeral-parlour/#comment-34693
Excerpt from Comments:
Men fear men. Men emphasise. Men create every metaphor available to imagination to explore just what the f*ck we are. They buy the tales. Some fantastic stories take over and create monsters like Mugabe, Amin, Osama, Pol, Hitler, Mao. We seek and we fear the leadership of men because if the leadership were ours we would use it to kill. This is the main, sublimated drive of most politicians. Kill men. Some men need to be killed to keep others safe. Mugabe is one of them. …-
Zimbabwe – CIO kidnap Gift Tandare’s body from funeral parlour
By Zvakwana
I have a fascination with hyperinflation. understanding how it feeds on itself, the triggering conditions and the miracles required to quell it are an invaluable education.
in argentina the trick was to price things in US dollars, then as the day’s and week’s inflation occurred, one would merely convert the posted price in US into the local argentine currency which was dropping like a lump of neutron star.
all the primary necessary conditions for hyperinflation exist now in the US economy, making it seem inevitable, but, who knows?
inflation really does feed on itself; the plummeting value drives one to spend all you have because it aint gonna be worth anything if you keep it. unrestrained spending is a causitive condition for inflation. see what I mean?
I think all of Africa should be left for the UN and the rest of the world to look after. The bad old dumb old USA can’t do anything right according to the leftovers so let them do it. Zimbabwean socialism can be their guiding hand. Using all your enlightened ideas the US fails to understand should fix the problem for the whole of Africa in no time. Put up or shut up, Africa could be the shinning example of the left’s superior intellect and know how.
If you need military help you can call on all of your son’s and daughters and form an elite brigade to get rid of any bad guys without destroying anyone’s homes or causing any collateral damage. That shouldn’t be very hard to accomplish with your superior morals and overt caring for your troops, just don’t do anything until you are absolutely sure you are right. God don’t miss this opportunity to show the world that you have been right all along.
Nine of the ten countries with the highest birth rates are in Africa,(the tenth is Afganistan). Uganda had about 7 million people at independence in `1962, and in only 45 years it has grown to 30 million. By 2050, the population of this country will be 130 million. Uganda’s birth rate is seven children per woman. Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, believes his country is underpopulated!?!
I’m guessing they don’t have interac either.
maybe sell them some weimar wheel barrel wallets,
Was anyone surprised at this outcome from day one?
Except of course your silly socialists. I might add the average life span in Zimbabwe has become 37 now in this, another socialist Utopia.
Funny thing this Country was the breadbasket of Africa at one time as well as having a higher living age than even South Africa. Black or white.
Now it imports its food & you die young. Another triumph of the left. Not that they will even remember this as their screw up. They never do. Indeed until the Liberals where finnaly caught here stealing, lying & brown baging it.
They where trumpeting a one party state as most African Dictatorships do. The last stage before a failed democracy. This Once prosperious Country bis the embodyment of the one party State. A living omen to listening to the utopian calls of the left.
Jeremiah: “kick out one of the more brutal and repressive white regimes”. Compared to what?
Perhaps those former “under-enfranchised” (for they weren’t entirly unrepresented) black Zimbabweans old enough to remember those brutal and repressive times, would now wax somewhat nostalgically for a return to the brutality and repression of the former white Zimbabweans, eh?
Your brutal & repressive in an African context is somewhat exaggerated and suggests the inevitable western sense of guilt. I’ll bet you’ll be hard pressed to give any example of an African country prior to Zimbabwe’s indepependence that wasn’t ruled, by an African government, in a repressive manner!
I’m guessing they don’t have interac either.”
oh theyve got interac doc, problem is withdrawing enough for the day’s supper cleans out all the bills.
LOL !!!
I still wanna know what in blazes is going on with the dark continent they scooped 300 billion with a b dollars in foreign aid since the end of colonialism and so far no decent highway system, no robust banking system, communications like the middle ages, there has never been enough doctors or clinics or medicines, on and on.
where did all that money go?
why do we insist on sending more and more and more of it?
Western Canadian at March 18, 2007 1:35 PM, plea to the utopians:
“God don’t miss this opportunity to show the world that you have been right all along.”
Great post, WC.
Bollocks to Robertbollocks. Some African countries have been relatively stable from the word go. Botswana and Zambia come to mind. I was in Zambia two years ago, got my local currency from the ATM machine, high speed internet cafes were $2 a half hour, the supermarkets all had scanners.
Once again I say Bollocks.
Also the Governor of the Bank of Zambia was rated the top of all developing countries.