Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! 702
solareagle writes "Venezuelan President Maduro has declared war on 'bourgeois parasites' by taking over Daka, an electronics retailer similar to Best Buy. USA Today reports, 'National guardsmen, some of whom had assault rifles, were positioned around outlets of [Daka] ... Maduro has ordered to lower prices or face prosecution. Thousands of people lined up at the Daka stores hoping for a bargain after the government forced the companies to charge "fair" prices. "I want a Sony plasma television for the house," said Amanda Lisboa, 34, a business administrator who waited seven hours outside a Caracas store ... "It's going to be so cheap!" "This is for the good of the nation," Maduro said, referring to the military's occupation of Daka. "Leave nothing on the shelves, nothing in the warehouses Let nothing remain in stock!" Maduro said his seizures are the 'tip of the iceberg' and that other stores would be next if they did not comply with his orders.'"
A Whole New Meaning To The Term (Score:5, Funny)
'National guardsmen, some of whom had assault rifles, were positioned around outlets of [Daka] ...
FIRE! Sale
Re:Could be happening in the USA soon. (Score:5, Funny)
Without Zimbabwe, I'd never have achieved my dream of becoming a Trillionaire.
Suck on that, Bill Gates.
Re:LOLWUT (Score:5, Funny)
Sarcasm: Requesting permission to buzz the tower.
ArchieBunker: Negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full.
Re:Next comes the blood. (Score:1, Funny)
Once the "bargains" are gone, there will be no more product.
That's pretty much what's happened to the US record industry, minus the violence. People say they deserve to have the product for free, or at much lower prices, but they can only make that happen once and then you get inferior stuff from then on.
Re:Hidden Agenda (Score:4, Funny)
He forgot .... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re: Wow (Score:4, Funny)
Why? He's doing an EXCELLENT job of flushing the country down the drain. All by his widdle lonesome self.
Eventually the people in his own country are going to wake up to the consequences of his policy of thuggery and theft.
At that point, if he actually survives the coup, it'll be a miracle.
Re:And people called Atlas Shrugged Fiction.... (Score:5, Funny)
Under capitalism, man exploits man. But under communism, it's the other way around.