I know that in a Northern European culture, this would necessitate a revolution.
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Let the revolution begin.
Denied their opate,the perpetual victims of the parasitic overclass will finally snap.
A governing body so inept they cannot produce beer?
So overbearing and stupid they interfere with beer production to the point of shutting it down.
Glad I am not in Venezuela.
Shame I see Canada’s future being acted out there.
Where is Sean Penn?
Danny Glover?
The other mindless fawning American leftists?
I was reminded of a story about some European countries diverting
hops in favor of the highly subsidized corn for ethanol. I also
remember Mexicans protesting the high price of corn. The farmers
who opted to dump hops for corn were all in Northern Europe.
If you want to drive your populace to mindless violence, this is
an easy way to do it. The Soviets were smart enough to keep the
masses in check with cheap vodka, resulting in a 70+ year bender.
Modern socialists are too stupid to consider the Bundy Rule: https://vimeo.com/12258514
Who is John Galt?
“Where is Sean Penn? Danny Glover? The other mindless fawning American leftists?”
As I remarked about rabble.ca the other day, you might have noticed by now that the “progressives” have gone on complete radio silence regarding their beloved late hero Hugo and his Bolivarian revolution. Venezuela has now become “An Inconvenient Truth” and so must be expunged from the dialectic.
oh that is funny. cant even drown their sorrows. betcha the Venezuelan elites are sipping vintage $1000 wine right now.
“more equal than others” that book should be required reading for all grade schoolers, political candidates, politishuns, bureaucraps, etc etc.
how long will it be before that empty shell of a nation gets picked for the olympics in order to induce economic benefits?
Can there possibly be a more stinging repudiation of socialism than for a country to run out of beer? As Frank Zappa once said, “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
By the way, Polar beer is to Venezuelans what Corona is to Mexicans: a perfectly good, inexpensive workingman’s beer, a terrific thirst-quencher when served ice cold on a hot day.
I would have thought any disruption in Polar supplies would really mean the end for the Chavistas but then, I thought Venezuelans would soon tire of the revolution with Hugo gone and the lackluster Maduro at the helm.
Ridiculous and posturing though he was, Chavez at least had a certain popular allure, not unlike that of Fidel Castro with Cubans.
Building a beer industry is like falling off a log. There are countless people who want to brew it, and countless customers who want to buy it. All a country has to do is not interfere too much in the economy.
If a country can’t maintain a well-functioning beer industry then no industry has a chance.
In a related story … Cuba cuts some food prices due to consumer complaints … http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/04/21/cuba-cuts-some-food-prices-responding-to-public-complaints.html
In the wonderful world of Socialist dictatordom … all one needs to do is to wave a magic wand and voila ! Rice, Beans, and Cooking Oil are now CHEAPER !! God bless Socialism, eh comrade !
If Venezuela could just get rid of all those pesky anti-government types … then Maduro could simply … ” declare a big reduction in the price of beer” (apologies to XTC)
Back in their multi-million dollar dachas celebrating communist socialism.
At least Venezuela has a hockey team in the playoffs.
What Rabbit said.
Back in the 70’s we used to run out of beer in AB every summer. The unionistas at the big breweries would go on strike. The liquor board finally capitulated and started bringing in US beer. That was all the beer there would be available and we all switched to US brands. When the strike ended the local breweries never regained market share. Most beer drinkers never went back to the big 3.
We should do the same thing to the teachers.
Yes I remember the regular beer strikes. After a couple summer strikes liquor stores hauled in trailer loads of any cheap American beer they could get their hands on. If the unions couldn’t play nice, they had to learn to compete. Thus ended the beer monopoly in Alberta.
For God’s sake, Venezuelans, revolt already!
More Alberta beer stuff. Back in the day an Alberta family had possibly the biggest brewery chain in the world. The Sicks family of Lethbridge owned a string of breweries in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Their big brands were Lethbridge Old Style Pilsner, Capilano, Bohemian (Saskatchewan) and Ranier. The Canadian breweries were sold to Molsons and the US intersts were sold somewhat later.
Sick family not Sicks
Manurdoo (maduro) the bus driver will keep the buses running, all else will stop
abtrapper, scar:
Yup. I remember those beer strikes, too. It seemed that one party or another in the entire chain went out each year. Once it was the brewery workers. After that, I think it was the truckers and I think that at one time, it was the ALCB itself.
Me, I brew my own and have done so for more than 20 years. So long as I can get either a kit or the ingredients, I’m OK. Not only does it taste better than what one gets in the liquor store, it’s a lot cheaper.
Well, that is very interesting.
Socialists usually keep the supply of booze at good level.
If the proles are mostly drunk, they don’t complain as much.
These are not wayward words, this is the policy.
Other than that, you see, the socialists think that if they nationalize everything, that things would be working much the same as before, without any effort.
They have this idea that the free enterprise is making people well of because they just collect the money, the widgets just appear out of nowhere and the bad enterprisers sell them for a price that the consumer will pay.
Just like that.
Venezuela is going from bad to worst on daily bases.
Those that run Venezuela actually don’t know why. They just can’t understand it.
Canadian socialist/fascists are screwing things up, however they have to put a break on it so as to not to spook the other provinces.
Canadian socialists/fascists are fully capable of following Venezuela’s path, once they get the federal power.
Look at Alberta, the extremists have begun to ruin the province, they will not stop until they are thrown out of power.
Price of oil has very little to do with it, its the theft of money they call taxes, fees and other such that are the problem. They can cut the pay of those that work for government by 10%. They won’t do it.
The extremist that runs the finances said that he will not reduce the cost of government on the back of the people. He is either willfully ignorant or he is a socialist/fascist politician pretending that nobody is going to pay the 10 to 15 billion off.
Let the revolution begin.
Denied their opate,the perpetual victims of the parasitic overclass will finally snap.
A governing body so inept they cannot produce beer?
So overbearing and stupid they interfere with beer production to the point of shutting it down.
Glad I am not in Venezuela.
Shame I see Canada’s future being acted out there.
Where is Sean Penn?
Danny Glover?
The other mindless fawning American leftists?
I was reminded of a story about some European countries diverting
hops in favor of the highly subsidized corn for ethanol. I also
remember Mexicans protesting the high price of corn. The farmers
who opted to dump hops for corn were all in Northern Europe.
If you want to drive your populace to mindless violence, this is
an easy way to do it. The Soviets were smart enough to keep the
masses in check with cheap vodka, resulting in a 70+ year bender.
Modern socialists are too stupid to consider the Bundy Rule:
https://vimeo.com/12258514
Who is John Galt?
“Where is Sean Penn? Danny Glover? The other mindless fawning American leftists?”
As I remarked about rabble.ca the other day, you might have noticed by now that the “progressives” have gone on complete radio silence regarding their beloved late hero Hugo and his Bolivarian revolution. Venezuela has now become “An Inconvenient Truth” and so must be expunged from the dialectic.
oh that is funny. cant even drown their sorrows. betcha the Venezuelan elites are sipping vintage $1000 wine right now.
“more equal than others” that book should be required reading for all grade schoolers, political candidates, politishuns, bureaucraps, etc etc.
how long will it be before that empty shell of a nation gets picked for the olympics in order to induce economic benefits?
Can there possibly be a more stinging repudiation of socialism than for a country to run out of beer? As Frank Zappa once said, “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
By the way, Polar beer is to Venezuelans what Corona is to Mexicans: a perfectly good, inexpensive workingman’s beer, a terrific thirst-quencher when served ice cold on a hot day.
I would have thought any disruption in Polar supplies would really mean the end for the Chavistas but then, I thought Venezuelans would soon tire of the revolution with Hugo gone and the lackluster Maduro at the helm.
Ridiculous and posturing though he was, Chavez at least had a certain popular allure, not unlike that of Fidel Castro with Cubans.
Building a beer industry is like falling off a log. There are countless people who want to brew it, and countless customers who want to buy it. All a country has to do is not interfere too much in the economy.
If a country can’t maintain a well-functioning beer industry then no industry has a chance.
In a related story … Cuba cuts some food prices due to consumer complaints …
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/04/21/cuba-cuts-some-food-prices-responding-to-public-complaints.html
In the wonderful world of Socialist dictatordom … all one needs to do is to wave a magic wand and voila ! Rice, Beans, and Cooking Oil are now CHEAPER !! God bless Socialism, eh comrade !
If Venezuela could just get rid of all those pesky anti-government types … then Maduro could simply … ” declare a big reduction in the price of beer” (apologies to XTC)
Back in their multi-million dollar dachas celebrating communist socialism.
At least Venezuela has a hockey team in the playoffs.
What Rabbit said.
Back in the 70’s we used to run out of beer in AB every summer. The unionistas at the big breweries would go on strike. The liquor board finally capitulated and started bringing in US beer. That was all the beer there would be available and we all switched to US brands. When the strike ended the local breweries never regained market share. Most beer drinkers never went back to the big 3.
We should do the same thing to the teachers.
Yes I remember the regular beer strikes. After a couple summer strikes liquor stores hauled in trailer loads of any cheap American beer they could get their hands on. If the unions couldn’t play nice, they had to learn to compete. Thus ended the beer monopoly in Alberta.
For God’s sake, Venezuelans, revolt already!
More Alberta beer stuff. Back in the day an Alberta family had possibly the biggest brewery chain in the world. The Sicks family of Lethbridge owned a string of breweries in Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Their big brands were Lethbridge Old Style Pilsner, Capilano, Bohemian (Saskatchewan) and Ranier. The Canadian breweries were sold to Molsons and the US intersts were sold somewhat later.
Sick family not Sicks
Manurdoo (maduro) the bus driver will keep the buses running, all else will stop
abtrapper, scar:
Yup. I remember those beer strikes, too. It seemed that one party or another in the entire chain went out each year. Once it was the brewery workers. After that, I think it was the truckers and I think that at one time, it was the ALCB itself.
Me, I brew my own and have done so for more than 20 years. So long as I can get either a kit or the ingredients, I’m OK. Not only does it taste better than what one gets in the liquor store, it’s a lot cheaper.
Well, that is very interesting.
Socialists usually keep the supply of booze at good level.
If the proles are mostly drunk, they don’t complain as much.
These are not wayward words, this is the policy.
Other than that, you see, the socialists think that if they nationalize everything, that things would be working much the same as before, without any effort.
They have this idea that the free enterprise is making people well of because they just collect the money, the widgets just appear out of nowhere and the bad enterprisers sell them for a price that the consumer will pay.
Just like that.
Venezuela is going from bad to worst on daily bases.
Those that run Venezuela actually don’t know why. They just can’t understand it.
Canadian socialist/fascists are screwing things up, however they have to put a break on it so as to not to spook the other provinces.
Canadian socialists/fascists are fully capable of following Venezuela’s path, once they get the federal power.
Look at Alberta, the extremists have begun to ruin the province, they will not stop until they are thrown out of power.
Price of oil has very little to do with it, its the theft of money they call taxes, fees and other such that are the problem. They can cut the pay of those that work for government by 10%. They won’t do it.
The extremist that runs the finances said that he will not reduce the cost of government on the back of the people. He is either willfully ignorant or he is a socialist/fascist politician pretending that nobody is going to pay the 10 to 15 billion off.
Apology.
Got carried away.