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Venezuela government creates happiness agency President Nicolas Maduro says the new Vice Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness will coordinate all the « mission » programs created by the late President Hugo Chavez to alleviate poverty. Oil-rich Venezuela is chronically short of basic goods and medical supplies. Annual inflation is running officially at near 50 percent and the U.S. dollar now fetches more than seven times the official rate on the black market. In downtown Caracas, fruit vendor Victor Rey said he’s now waiting for Maduro to create a vice ministry of beer. « That would make me, and all the drunks, happy, » he said. A TV journalist whose show was recently forced off the air after he refused to censor political opponents of the ruling socialists, Leopoldo Castillo, called Maduro’s announcement an international embarrassment. Housewife Liliana Alfonzo, 31, said that instead of a Supreme Happiness agency she’d prefer being able to get milk and toilet paper, which disappear off store shelves minutes after arriving at stores. Maduro blames the shortages on speculation and hoarding, but merchants say they would go broke if they adhered to government price controls. Chavez spent billions on social programs, from benefits for single mothers to handouts of apartments and major appliances. |
De quoi inspirer le PQ, vivement un ministre du « bonheur social suprême » !
Yes! Haïssons et punissons les riches, les pollueurs, la sociétés de consommation, Etc… Devenons tous pauvres et misérables et nous serons tous très heureux dans notre partage de la pauvreté.
Amen
Un ministre de l’entertainment pour divertir le peuple? « Les arts et spectables déjà largement subventionné vont vouloir piger là dedans.
Ça me fait horriblement penser à http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Love