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2016-11-02 Caribbean-Latin America

Maduro to hungry city dwellers: grow your own food

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Posted by Steve White 2016-11-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Hopefully he told them to grow cake.

Posted by gorb 2016-11-02 00:39|| 2016-11-02 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 government mismanagement and sky-high inflation,

As though there is any difference between the first, cause, and the second, effect.

Actually small plot agriculture worked in the USSR. After the collectivization movement some ridiculously large proportion of vegetables were grown on the tiny plots that were left outside government control.

Posted by AlanC 2016-11-02 09:40|| 2016-11-02 09:40|| Front Page Top

#3 A guy I know from Chile told me the statists took over his country and redistributed the wealth of many of the estates. Most of the people who received the redistributed wealth ate the farm animals and edible foodstuff such as gardens and then they had no more. A few caught on how to husband their redistributed wealth and they started building and growing again.

During WWII in the U.S. people had Victory Gardens to help sustain themselves during the war. Of course many of them were property owners also. Property rights are important to freedom and liberty.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-11-02 10:16|| 2016-11-02 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Property and land ownership is the hallmark of freedom and the free man. Perhaps that is why gov't always wants to seize it and insist it be used for the public good.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-11-02 10:23|| 2016-11-02 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Most of the (cough) seed money is being distributed in densely populated urban areas, with marginal to poisonous soil, not in the countryside. We're talking patio farming here.

Posted by Shipman 2016-11-02 13:06|| 2016-11-02 13:06|| Front Page Top

#6 What's Spanish for "juche"?

Posted by charger 2016-11-02 22:51|| 2016-11-02 22:51|| Front Page Top

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