"A Venezuelan Governor Has Suggested Starving Citizens Eat Rocks And Sticks
And as bad luck would have it, we have Francisco Rangel, governor of the state of BolĂvar, to provided us with an ample example of such absurdity in a single phrase.
In response to widespread food shortages across Venezuela–a product of inflationary policies and price controls–Rangel had this to say to the struggling Venezuelan people:
“Let them take away whatever they want.
We are capable of eating a stick, or instead of frying two eggs, fry two rocks, and we will eat fried rocks, ” he said, “but no one can beat us.”
I wonder if Mr. Rangel has any intention of following his own advice.
Will he be frying up his own eggs while rocks sizzle in the mouths of “his” people?
Or, will he join them in gnawing on a stick like a domesticated dog?"...
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