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Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela introduces "Good Life" food rationing Card
2010-09-05
Some Venezuelans seem to be worried for some reason. The rest don't get it. Yet.
"People depended on the government to eat, and nothing gives you more power than having people depend on you to get their food quota."
Give me your guns, I'll give you food. Don't complain about the economy or the politics, I'll give you food. Give me your money, I'll give you food. Work for me, I'll give you food.

Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.
Posted by:gorb

#3  "Good Life" in the context of Saberhagen's Berserker fiction has a traitorous and horrid connotation. It represents not just the refutation of liberty, but of life itself.

Life of the people; life of the puppies; life of the daisies. All must be extinguished. With "good life" facilitating in their demise.
Posted by: rammer   2010-09-05 22:07  

#2  ...does he at least get the trains to run on time?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-09-05 11:58  

#1  I have a dream in which Hugo is hanging upside down, strung up with piano wire.

Or perhaps I'm just remembering an old photograph of someone else ...
Posted by: Steve White   2010-09-05 10:38  

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