Venezuela Takes Over Toilet Paper Factory
September 21st, 2013This is where price controls will eventually land a country. All wiped out.
Here’s what the crooked Venezuelan regime could do if it wants to provide competition in the market for toilet paper: Build a toilet paper factory and (try to) offer the products at a cheaper price.
Via: Reuters:
A Venezuelan state agency on Friday ordered the temporary takeover of a factory that produces toilet paper in what it called an effort to ensure consistent supplies after embarrassing shortages earlier this year.
Critics of President Nicolas Maduro say the nagging shortages of products ranging from bathroom tissue to milk are a sign his socialist government’s rigid price and currency controls are failing. They have also used the situation to poke fun at his administration on social media networks.
A national agency called Sundecop, which enforces price controls, said in a statement it would occupy one of the factories belonging to paper producer Manpa for 15 days, adding that National Guard troops would “safeguard” the facility.
“The action in the producer of toilet paper, sanitary napkins and disposable diapers responds to the state’s obligation to ensure a steady supply of basic goods for the people,” Sundecop said, adding it had observed “the violation of the right” to access such products.
Calls to the Manpa factory went unanswered.
It would not surprise me at all that the Capitalists who supply chemicals and other items necessary for the proper operation of this factory have deliberately slowed down deliveries.
Socialism can not be allowed to succeed and the U.S. Capitalists will do whatever is necessary to prevent any success.
Calm
I guess the “U.S. Capitalists” must be getting ready to nuke Scandinavia any minute.
@Calm Socialism? Jaysus H.
“One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can’t tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society can comfortably allow people to choose voluntary socialism. If a group of people — even a very large group — wanted to purchase land and own it in common, they would be free to do so. The libertarian legal order would require only that no one be coerced into joining or giving up his property.” David D. Boaz