SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez last night announced a series of economic and social measures to confront the crisis brought about by the rise in oil and food prices worldwide, including a 15 percent wage increase for government employees who earn up to RD$30,000 per month and a readjustment of the minimum wage.
He also announced a jump from 3,000 to 5,000 pesos per month on the pensions for retired civilians and military.
He said construction of new infrastructure projects will not begin and the conclusion will be prioritized for those that to date are advanced in at least 75 percent.
Fernandez, in his speech to the nation, disposed a 25 percent reduction on the purchase of fuel, lower the cost in the use of cell phones and travel expenses, allowances and per diems.
He also announced the creation of the program "Bonogas" for households and drivers; to benefit to 800,000 poor and lower middle class homes with the purchase of up to six gallons of propane monthly, with the same subsidy as the one for drivers of RD$38 per gallon, or RD$228 monthly to be included in the Solidarity Card.
It will also benefit around 24,000 urban transport drivers with an subsidy of RD$38 per gallon, a little more than double what the current law stipulates, of RD$17.35 per gallon, for the purchase of up to six gallons of propane gas daily. The amount would total RD$5,700 monthly.
Fernandez said the focalization of the subsidy on propane used in transport and homes would save RD$6.3 billion.
Written by: juanb, 18 Jul 2008 7:53 AM
From: Dominican Republic
What? No increase for the senators, judges, and deputees? Oh that's right. They got theirs a long time ago.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
He did not tell us the whereabouts of Josean either.....Rubi was very dissapointed
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Maldito is still guarding and protecting his privates
From: United States
So nothing happened.
Can someone enlighten me but is he stopping the Metro???
Written by: anthonyC, 18 Jul 2008 9:02 AM
From: United States
Wage increases and price supports.
This is not going to end good.
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
No not the metro!!!!!!!!! What would happen without the Metro.
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
I guess Lionel is getting the propane from Hugo as a trade off, "I help your poor and you let me run your country"
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Well Tex thats a good deal he did such a great job in Venezuela
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
You know price controls are a great thing too!!! in venezuela you buy wholsale chickens and import them at 4 dollars each and the government says you can only sell them at 3 dollars each. What a great system socialism is, everybody loses.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Yeah Tex but they make it up on the volume
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
GC,
That is the key my friend and dont forget having to pay your sales tax.
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
Written by: BASTA, 18 Jul 2008 11:02 AM
From: Dominican Republic, SPM
Did not watch LMaldito because there were no lights.
From: Dominican Republic
The only advantage that Socialism would have in the DR is more taxes on the backs of the already "tax-poor" citizens.
The Government takes away 16+% and gives back 5% of what it takes in subsidies. The rest is used to give Government employees a raise they don't really earn. Then there area those in government who do nothing to receive their income. Fat a$$es getting fatter.
One day they'll run out of people to tax.
That's SOCIALISM, folks. The "law of diminishing returns" runs rampant through taxation.
Communism and Socialism turn people into SHEEP who follow the "lead goats" into financial oblivion and the governments call it PROGRESS.
TB
From: Dominican Republic, Santiago
Never TexasBill, wait until the tax: s--t hits the roof for expats living and really investing here! like you want to take your money out now, well let me introduce you to our new ministry of peso control!!!!
From: Dominican Republic
Steviewonder;
All my money in in banks in the States, so all I spend here is for evryday expenses. The DR government can't touch it if it ain't here, now can they?
On top of that we rent the house we live in, so we can move anytime to anyplace that suits us.
Best of all possible worlds. You know "El Dorado" from "Candide".
TB
Written by: Belial, 18 Jul 2008 4:04 PM
From: United States, Texas
Either Raul is listening to Leonel or Leonel to Raul.
We find striking similarities in their plans to deal with the food crisis.
Of course, the class content differs, but little else does.
An usufruct is the legal right of using and enjoying the fruits or profits of something belonging to another.
http://www.granma.cu/INGLES/2008/julio/vier18/legislation.html"Decree-Law No. 259 authorizes the handing over in usufruct of idle state land to individuals and legal entities for using in a rational and sustainable form, in line with the land’s suitability for agricultural production."
"It adds that the usufruct granted is for a period of up to 10 years in the case of individuals [each gets 13.42 hectares] and up to 25 years in the case of legal entities [they get 40.2 hectares]."
oooo
The difference in the two plans is Raul bets the agricultural proletariat WILL PRODUCE Cuba out of the food crisis
In the DR, Leonel bets on the agricultural bourgeoisie.
Written by: Belial, 18 Jul 2008 4:29 PM
From: United States, Texas
The bourgeois farmers of the DR are extremely productive and knowledgeable about their business. They chiefly have made the DR a food power in LA/C.
But what they gain in the arts and the sciences, they lose in ethics.
As long as the bourgeoisie and upper layer of the middle class can pig-out like gluttons, the bourgeois farmer won't hesitate for a second to export for a handsome profit the food the rest of the Dominican population needs.
"I sold your food to foreigners because you work harder when you're hungry. When I you're full, you don't work at all," the bourgeois farmer lies to the workers.
Written by: anthonyC, 18 Jul 2008 4:42 PM
From: United States
"The bourgeois farmers of the DR are extremely productive and knowledgeable about their business. They chiefly have made the DR a food power in LA/C.
But what they gain in the arts and the sciences, they lose in ethics."
Belail,
Do you even read what you write. In 2 sentences to laud the Dominican Farmer then damn him for his Business etheics which you had just praised.
Written by: Belial, 18 Jul 2008 5:31 PM
From: United States, Texas
"Do you even read what you write. In 2 sentences to laud the Dominican Farmer then damn him for his Business etheics which you had just praised," anthonyC leaps before he looks.
oooo
"Business ethics?"
What's that?
Are they any good?
I suppose "business ethics" develops good businessmen.
Take the productive and knowlegeable Nazi bourgeois farmers, like the very capable chicken farmer Heinrich Himmler. Early in his career, he may have had plenty of your "business ethics" when he raised, slaughtered, and sold his chickens, but he didn't have any other kind of ethics.
He went from slaughtering chickens to slaughtering people, both on a grand scale.
I find little difference between slaughtering people and starving them to death.
Perhaps, the lessons in "business ethics" Himmler learned in the former career helped him in the latter calling.
Is business ethics like honor among thieves -- "we steal from others, but never from each other?"
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
How dare you as a fellow chicken choker smear your buddy Heinrich you chicken chokers got to stick together
Written by: Belial, 18 Jul 2008 5:45 PM
From: United States, Texas
All of the arts show us how to make things.
Science tells people in the arts about rules that help them make or engineer things.
Ethics is different from and superior to the arts and science.
Ethics tells us what to do for its own sake, not for the sake of things.
I don't believe "business ethics" has anything to do with ethics.
Written by: Belial, 18 Jul 2008 5:51 PM
From: United States, Texas
"How dare you as a fellow chicken choker smear your buddy Heinrich you chicken chokers got to stick together."
oooo
I will confess that I like the taste of chicken.
But I swear that I have never raised one, slaughtered one, processed on, or even packaged one.
I only buy and eat them.
You do me an injustice when you call me "chicken choker."
I have never choked a chicken, only the remains.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Historically, great nations such as the USSR and Cuba have extensively limited free trade among their people -- and have consequently removed much inequality. Although lagging, other nations like Zimbabwe and Venezuela are now coming around to realize the benefits of reduced economic freedom. Similarly, many nations have thrived on self-sufficiency; Romania and Albania in their heyday were remarkably independent, though it is impossible to surpass the record of North Korea.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Business ethics is to ethics what military music is to music....and belial if bull sh-t was music you would be a brass band
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
President Raúl Castro continued his rollout of reforms in Cuba on Friday with the launch of a plan to boost the island’s very sluggish food production by granting private farmers access to up to 99 acres of unused government land.
Cuba seized and stole land from most large-scale farmers after the 1959 revolution; the announcement of the reform in the Community Party newspaper Granma stopped well short of a return to pre-revolution private enterprise.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Last year, Cuba spent nearly $1.5 billion for food imports, much of that from producers in the United States that were granted a special exemption from Washington’s trade embargo on Cuba. This year, the island’s bill for food imports is expected to rise by another $1 billion, officials have said, calling the issue one of national security and a failure of previous systems.
Cuba’s government released statistics last month showing that fallow or underused agricultural land had increased to 55 percent in 2007, up from 46 percent five years earlier, The Associated Press reported.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Many Cubans, used to living in a time warp, relished the changes even as they complained bitterly that giving them access to consumer items does little to boost their state salaries, which are paid in practically worthless Cuban pesos.
In a speech at the close of the National Assembly earlier this month, Mr. Castro, 77, made clear that he was remaking some aspects of his older brother’s country. The ideal of everyone, a doctor or a laborer, earning the same amount, with no regard to productivity, appears to be kaput as is the system that spawned that dumbass idea
“Socialism means social justice and equality, but equality of rights, of opportunities, not of income,” he said. “Equality is not egalitarianism.” lets make a buck he said
In the speech, Mr. Castro prepared Cubans for tough times ahead. “It’s my duty to speak frankly, because it would be unethical to create false expectations,” he said. “To tell you otherwise would be misleading.”not like he has not done that before
Written by: Belial, 18 Jul 2008 7:58 PM
From: United States, Texas
The food and oil crises are hitting Cuba hard and the Cubans will have to tighten their belts and work harder.
But they are better off and will remain better off that any of the other peoples in LA/C, including the Brazilians, Argentines, Mexicans, and Dominicans.
In all of the "rich" LA/C countries there are wide, deep, and growing pools of extreme poverty that does not exist in Cuba.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Cuba is circling the drain.....marxism is over ....kaput ......... finito
Written by: Belial, 18 Jul 2008 10:54 PM
From: United States, Texas
"Cuba is circling the drain.....marxism is over ....kaput ......... finito"
oooo
To the contrary, Bear Stearn, IndyMac, Freddie and Fannie suggest that USA ... not Cuba, is circling the drain.
Add to to this, a horrifying 7000 home foreclosures PER day in the USA and a record number of business and individual bankruptcies in the first six months of 2008, one is inclined to believe US capitalism isn't even circling the drain, but it has dropped into the drain and has been flushed deep into the sewage system.
From: United States
As I stated before and increased of such can only be effective if laws are passed to freeze basic food items at current prises or to lower them. Raising wages will lead to an increase of the basic food items and other things which dominicans used on a daily basis. Somehow the government does not challenge the business sectors. For the economic to be balance both internally and externally an adjustment got to be implemented by passing laws that forbit price increases. In D.R. there are no controls of prices so business owners price their items at whatever they feel like. Now they will say that people got an increase so therefore they can affort to pay their increases, so what good does it do. This is not more money in people's pockets but rather more money for the business sectors they are untouch. In this case the government is not saving the people, and as far as the Metro is concerned, its more than 75% completed so it does not applied. To some this may seen generous, lets see ------
From: Dominican Republic
Tell me, Belial, what do they grow in Cuba? Rice? Black Beans? Plaintains? Yucca? Tayota? What else do they grow besides these basic products?
Surely not Asparagus, nor Lettuce and tomatoes? What about Onions? Brocolli? Cauliflower?Sweet Potatoes (Batata)?
You're the expert on Cuban Agriculture, so how about enlightening us as to what they will grow on all that "unused public land".
That is, if you care to do so, of course.
But, then, maybe you don't want to answer that question as you have so many others that require an honest answer.
I've noticed that you are VERY selective about what you write, or answer.
Almost like you are embarrassed by the answer you would have to give.
TB
Written by: Belial, 18 Jul 2008 11:49 PM
From: United States, Texas
"Tell me, Belial, what do they grow in Cuba? ...You're the expert on Cuban Agriculture, so how about enlightening us as to what they will grow on all that "unused public land."
oooo
I suppose the Cubans will grow staples on the unused state land.
You portray me as duplicitous person because I don't grow things in Cuba although I talk favorably about agriculture in Cuba.
Well, I live in Houston,TX and I don't grow anything in Houston either.
Does that also make me duplicitous in your two-faced book?
Houston is the 4th largest city in USA and I know very few people who grow anything here.
So, do you conclude that the Houston population is duplicitous?
Written by: Belial, 19 Jul 2008 12:00 AM
From: United States, Texas
"As I stated before and increased of such can only be effective if laws are passed to freeze basic food items at current prises or to lower them. Raising wages will lead to an increase of the basic food items and other things which dominicans used on a daily basis. Somehow the government does not challenge the business sectors. For the economic to be balance both internally and externally an adjustment got to be implemented by passing laws that forbit price increases. In D.R. there are no controls of prices so business owners price their items at whatever they feel like. Now they will say that people got an increase so therefore they can affort to pay their increases, so what good does it do, " hectorvargas wrote.
oooo
Hectorvargas, I'm stunned that I agree with so much of what you wrote.
Price controls should NOT be ruled out.
But at this time, I would try milder measures.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
Belial also known as the " Theodore Kaczynski’ of Houston " says" Price controls are always effective. Remember: The Soviet Union, one of the most powerful nations ever, perfected price controls. And gas price controls under President James Earl Carter were so effective that people were lining up by the hundreds at gas stations to stare in awe at the low prices."
- Taxes are also an effective remedy – perhaps better than price controls, because the government gets the money.
Written by: Belial, 23 Jul 2008 1:43 PM
From: United States, Texas
What striking similarities between LF's and Dr. Jack Diouf, director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ideas on the magnitude of the food and fuel crises and the measures to confront them.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/julio/mar22/FAO.htmlWritten by: anthonyC, 23 Jul 2008 2:16 PM
From: United States
So Belail,
Explain to me the food shortages in Cuba.
Why is Food rationed?
Why do Cuban Families barely get any Milk or Meat?
Why is the Coffee ration mixed with black beans?
From: Dominican Republic
Tony;
Didn't you read hispost?
Belial doesn't know squat about agriculture. He doesn't grow a damn thing in Houston. Even I had a garden while living there andgoing to school. He's just waiting around for the government hand outs that were stopped years ago.
Doesn't he know that people must WORK for their daily bread? "Course he lives off "corn pone, blackeyed peas, and hog jowls" if I read his rhetoric correctly.
He's like so many other of his brothers who are just frustrated and can't understand that he get's ahead by using his own efforts instead of waiting for the gubmnt to do it for him. We both know the type, don't we. He's a discredit to his ownself and others.
All they do is whine about the inequalities of their own making by their very attitude andwould be amoung the first to suffer under the type of regime they advocte. They couldn't be trusted to follow the orders given by the "more astute" of the regime.
TB
Written by: Belial, 25 Jul 2008 1:36 AM
From: United States, Texas
Explain to me the food shortages in Cuba.
Why is Food rationed?
Why do Cuban Families barely get any Milk or Meat?
Why is the Coffee ration mixed with black beans?
oooo
Food shortages everywhere result from the belief that food costs a lot to produce or import.
Food is rationed because, unlike of poor capitalist countries in LA/C which are close to the US imperialists, there is food to ration. And food is sold at various markets, including but not limited to urban farms, that isn't rationed, as you falsely assert..
"Cuban Families barely get any Milk or Meat." It's "barely" only when compared with what gluttons, in the rich capitalist countries, get.
"Why is the Coffee ration mixed with black beans?" Must you always lie?
Written by: Belial, 25 Jul 2008 1:54 AM
From: United States, Texas
"Belial doesn't know squat about agriculture. He doesn't grow a damn thing in Houston."
oooo
In Houston, we get most of our food from Krogers, Randalls, HEBs, Walmarts, Food Towns, etc.
Very few Houstonians ... save hicks and old schools ... farm within city limits.
But we have pretty lawns to take care of.
That should count for something.
By the way, every year, Reliant Stadium puts on the largest Livestock and Rodeo Show in the world. That's when thousands of hicks in their cowboy clothes ride into town on their horses that excrete everywhere [like GC].
Awful mess.
Written by: Belial, 25 Jul 2008 2:20 AM
From: United States, Texas
"Belial also known as the 'Theodore Kaczynski’ of Houston' "
oooo
"Theodore John Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American convict, mathematician and social critic, known for carrying out a campaign of bombings and mail bombings, which killed three people and wounded 23."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_KaczynskiI fully agree with Wiki that most ... but not all ... mathematicians are bomb-throwers and convicts [DOD and defense contractor employees].
I'm a mathematical logician of the Carnap school.
And our school, you see, really doesn't go in for bombs.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
same lunatic fringe
Written by: Belial, 25 Jul 2008 3:44 AM
From: United States, Texas
"same lunatic fringe"
oooo
Oh no, please be fair, we're neither the same nor lunatics nor the fringe.
From: United States Virgin Islands, Christiansted.from the bar at the Comanche
insane outsider.then not fringe......as far as your comments are concerned belial you are the Ted Kaczynski of the internet
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Can someone enlighten me but is he stopping the Metro???
This is not going to end good.
That is the key my friend and dont forget having to pay your sales tax.
http://www.eltiempo.com.ve/noticias/default.asp?id=157154
The Government takes away 16+% and gives back 5% of what it takes in subsidies. The rest is used to give Government employees a raise they don't really earn. Then there area those in government who do nothing to receive their income. Fat a$$es getting fatter.
One day they'll run out of people to tax.
That's SOCIALISM, folks. The "law of diminishing returns" runs rampant through taxation.
Communism and Socialism turn people into SHEEP who follow the "lead goats" into financial oblivion and the governments call it PROGRESS.
TB
All my money in in banks in the States, so all I spend here is for evryday expenses. The DR government can't touch it if it ain't here, now can they?
On top of that we rent the house we live in, so we can move anytime to anyplace that suits us.
Best of all possible worlds. You know "El Dorado" from "Candide".
TB
We find striking similarities in their plans to deal with the food crisis.
Of course, the class content differs, but little else does.
An usufruct is the legal right of using and enjoying the fruits or profits of something belonging to another.
http://www.granma.cu/INGLES/2008/julio/vier18/legislation.html
"Decree-Law No. 259 authorizes the handing over in usufruct of idle state land to individuals and legal entities for using in a rational and sustainable form, in line with the land’s suitability for agricultural production."
"It adds that the usufruct granted is for a period of up to 10 years in the case of individuals [each gets 13.42 hectares] and up to 25 years in the case of legal entities [they get 40.2 hectares]."
oooo
The difference in the two plans is Raul bets the agricultural proletariat WILL PRODUCE Cuba out of the food crisis
In the DR, Leonel bets on the agricultural bourgeoisie.
But what they gain in the arts and the sciences, they lose in ethics.
As long as the bourgeoisie and upper layer of the middle class can pig-out like gluttons, the bourgeois farmer won't hesitate for a second to export for a handsome profit the food the rest of the Dominican population needs.
"I sold your food to foreigners because you work harder when you're hungry. When I you're full, you don't work at all," the bourgeois farmer lies to the workers.
But what they gain in the arts and the sciences, they lose in ethics."
Belail,
Do you even read what you write. In 2 sentences to laud the Dominican Farmer then damn him for his Business etheics which you had just praised.
oooo
"Business ethics?"
What's that?
Are they any good?
I suppose "business ethics" develops good businessmen.
Take the productive and knowlegeable Nazi bourgeois farmers, like the very capable chicken farmer Heinrich Himmler. Early in his career, he may have had plenty of your "business ethics" when he raised, slaughtered, and sold his chickens, but he didn't have any other kind of ethics.
He went from slaughtering chickens to slaughtering people, both on a grand scale.
I find little difference between slaughtering people and starving them to death.
Perhaps, the lessons in "business ethics" Himmler learned in the former career helped him in the latter calling.
Is business ethics like honor among thieves -- "we steal from others, but never from each other?"
Science tells people in the arts about rules that help them make or engineer things.
Ethics is different from and superior to the arts and science.
Ethics tells us what to do for its own sake, not for the sake of things.
I don't believe "business ethics" has anything to do with ethics.
oooo
I will confess that I like the taste of chicken.
But I swear that I have never raised one, slaughtered one, processed on, or even packaged one.
I only buy and eat them.
You do me an injustice when you call me "chicken choker."
I have never choked a chicken, only the remains.
Cuba seized and stole land from most large-scale farmers after the 1959 revolution; the announcement of the reform in the Community Party newspaper Granma stopped well short of a return to pre-revolution private enterprise.
Cuba’s government released statistics last month showing that fallow or underused agricultural land had increased to 55 percent in 2007, up from 46 percent five years earlier, The Associated Press reported.
In a speech at the close of the National Assembly earlier this month, Mr. Castro, 77, made clear that he was remaking some aspects of his older brother’s country. The ideal of everyone, a doctor or a laborer, earning the same amount, with no regard to productivity, appears to be kaput as is the system that spawned that dumbass idea
“Socialism means social justice and equality, but equality of rights, of opportunities, not of income,” he said. “Equality is not egalitarianism.” lets make a buck he said
In the speech, Mr. Castro prepared Cubans for tough times ahead. “It’s my duty to speak frankly, because it would be unethical to create false expectations,” he said. “To tell you otherwise would be misleading.”not like he has not done that before
But they are better off and will remain better off that any of the other peoples in LA/C, including the Brazilians, Argentines, Mexicans, and Dominicans.
In all of the "rich" LA/C countries there are wide, deep, and growing pools of extreme poverty that does not exist in Cuba.
oooo
To the contrary, Bear Stearn, IndyMac, Freddie and Fannie suggest that USA ... not Cuba, is circling the drain.
Add to to this, a horrifying 7000 home foreclosures PER day in the USA and a record number of business and individual bankruptcies in the first six months of 2008, one is inclined to believe US capitalism isn't even circling the drain, but it has dropped into the drain and has been flushed deep into the sewage system.
Surely not Asparagus, nor Lettuce and tomatoes? What about Onions? Brocolli? Cauliflower?Sweet Potatoes (Batata)?
You're the expert on Cuban Agriculture, so how about enlightening us as to what they will grow on all that "unused public land".
That is, if you care to do so, of course.
But, then, maybe you don't want to answer that question as you have so many others that require an honest answer.
I've noticed that you are VERY selective about what you write, or answer.
Almost like you are embarrassed by the answer you would have to give.
TB
oooo
I suppose the Cubans will grow staples on the unused state land.
You portray me as duplicitous person because I don't grow things in Cuba although I talk favorably about agriculture in Cuba.
Well, I live in Houston,TX and I don't grow anything in Houston either.
Does that also make me duplicitous in your two-faced book?
Houston is the 4th largest city in USA and I know very few people who grow anything here.
So, do you conclude that the Houston population is duplicitous?
oooo
Hectorvargas, I'm stunned that I agree with so much of what you wrote.
Price controls should NOT be ruled out.
But at this time, I would try milder measures.
- Taxes are also an effective remedy – perhaps better than price controls, because the government gets the money.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/julio/mar22/FAO.html
Explain to me the food shortages in Cuba.
Why is Food rationed?
Why do Cuban Families barely get any Milk or Meat?
Why is the Coffee ration mixed with black beans?
Didn't you read hispost?
Belial doesn't know squat about agriculture. He doesn't grow a damn thing in Houston. Even I had a garden while living there andgoing to school. He's just waiting around for the government hand outs that were stopped years ago.
Doesn't he know that people must WORK for their daily bread? "Course he lives off "corn pone, blackeyed peas, and hog jowls" if I read his rhetoric correctly.
He's like so many other of his brothers who are just frustrated and can't understand that he get's ahead by using his own efforts instead of waiting for the gubmnt to do it for him. We both know the type, don't we. He's a discredit to his ownself and others.
All they do is whine about the inequalities of their own making by their very attitude andwould be amoung the first to suffer under the type of regime they advocte. They couldn't be trusted to follow the orders given by the "more astute" of the regime.
TB
Why is Food rationed?
Why do Cuban Families barely get any Milk or Meat?
Why is the Coffee ration mixed with black beans?
oooo
Food shortages everywhere result from the belief that food costs a lot to produce or import.
Food is rationed because, unlike of poor capitalist countries in LA/C which are close to the US imperialists, there is food to ration. And food is sold at various markets, including but not limited to urban farms, that isn't rationed, as you falsely assert..
"Cuban Families barely get any Milk or Meat." It's "barely" only when compared with what gluttons, in the rich capitalist countries, get.
"Why is the Coffee ration mixed with black beans?" Must you always lie?
oooo
In Houston, we get most of our food from Krogers, Randalls, HEBs, Walmarts, Food Towns, etc.
Very few Houstonians ... save hicks and old schools ... farm within city limits.
But we have pretty lawns to take care of.
That should count for something.
By the way, every year, Reliant Stadium puts on the largest Livestock and Rodeo Show in the world. That's when thousands of hicks in their cowboy clothes ride into town on their horses that excrete everywhere [like GC].
Awful mess.
oooo
"Theodore John Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American convict, mathematician and social critic, known for carrying out a campaign of bombings and mail bombings, which killed three people and wounded 23."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski
I fully agree with Wiki that most ... but not all ... mathematicians are bomb-throwers and convicts [DOD and defense contractor employees].
I'm a mathematical logician of the Carnap school.
And our school, you see, really doesn't go in for bombs.
oooo
Oh no, please be fair, we're neither the same nor lunatics nor the fringe.