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Specifically, many complained of severe rationing and the lack of jobs. "I have had my ration card for ten years, and always the amount has been the same," said Lazara Basart, who left with her husband, a government driver, and her two children. "Three-quarters of a pound of meat per person every nine days. Five pounds of rice per month. Many times we went hungry." Marveled another at the refugee center: "There are more pages of want ads in newspapers here in Miami than there are pages in all of Granma [Havana's Communist Party paper...
Later, refugees wolfed down fried chicken, ham and Cokes at the local Chamber of Commerce office while awaiting buses for the four-hour ride into Miami. They talked of the mounting hardships of life under Castro. Vegetables and cereals are virtually nonexistent; the monthly rice ration is 5 Ibs. per person. Russian shoes cost $90 and polo shirts $40, with such clothing considered luxury items in a society where the average salary is $100 a month."They are taking milk away from seven-year-olds," said Ramon Leiva, 33, a Havana Linotypist. Others spoke of greater surveillance, fewer freedoms...
...recall of Calvin does not mean remorse among the Genevans. The city, despite its placid lakeshore site, is a grim spot enlivened mainly by nocturnal vices: gambling, drinking, whoring. In one notorious district there is a tavern for every three dwellings. Though he cherishes his own ration of wine (teetotaling comes later in Protestant history), the cleric inveighs against every excess. He condemns dancing as a prelude to fornication and finds Genevan feasting obscenely luxurious. (Among the new ordinances he demands is one limiting banquets to three courses of a mere four plates each...
Permanent controls on oil prices would soon imply either subsidising imports or foregoing imports entirely--for who would sell to a country which is not prepared to pay the market price for oil. Such price controls, by keeping the price of oil low, would not reduce domestic consumption, hence rationing would be needed. The equity of this depends entirely on how ration coupons are distributed. For efficiency ration coupons should be sold, and this would raise the price of oil (including coupons) to at least free market levels. If oil companies make excessive profits, then it seems more sensible...
...Ration kind of situation, a 'lean and hungry' staff," Orren said. "We were living off the land in a more guerrilla kind of way. But then, those kind of campaigns have been successful in recent years...