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2007-10-15 Africa Subsaharan

No bread available in Zimbabwe despite 300 percent price hike

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Posted by Fred 2007-10-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 ahh, the benefits of glorious socialism.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-10-15 01:10|| 2007-10-15 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Let them eat cake!-concerned (about saving socialism) liberal

Posted by Unosh Poodle8762 2007-10-15 01:57|| 2007-10-15 01:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey, give them a couple more days and the shelves should be filled to overflowing again. Zimbob himself has gone outside to order the wheat to grow itself faster.

Posted by gorb 2007-10-15 02:07|| 2007-10-15 02:07|| Front Page Top

#4 The lingering effects of while colonial rule no doubt. Things just have not been the same since 600 AD.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-15 06:38|| 2007-10-15 06:38|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder if he has considered a BRUTAL CRACKDOWN?
That will get the bread back on the shelves.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-10-15 07:03|| 2007-10-15 07:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Gotta have wheat to make bread. Gotta have farmers to grow the wheat.

Anyone else see a pattern here?

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-10-15 07:16|| 2007-10-15 07:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Unh... gotta have a work ethic to be a farmer. Socalism is a world-class work ethic destroyer...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-10-15 07:52|| 2007-10-15 07:52|| Front Page Top

#8 right about now is when you REEEAALLY don't wanna be the slowest kid in the neighborhood. Peeples is getting mighty hungry

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-15 08:37|| 2007-10-15 08:37|| Front Page Top

#9 I'd like 20 cent loaves of bread. Cheapest I can get it around here is a bit less than a dollar.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2007-10-15 09:26|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-10-15 09:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Yes, but what good will that do you when you don't have that dollar? (Or .20)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-10-15 12:50|| 2007-10-15 12:50|| Front Page Top

#11 If freight trains are selling for 10 cents a piece and you've not got a dime, you'll never be a railroader.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-15 15:57|| 2007-10-15 15:57|| Front Page Top

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