Zimbabwean Government Allocates 15 Trillion To Fund 2008 Campaigns

VOA:

The Zimbabwean government has allocated Z$15 trillion dollars to the ruling ZANU-PF party and the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change to fund operations in the 2008 election year, a more than 20-fold increase from $650 million in 2007.

Political sources said that based on its share of the vote in the 2005 general election, ZANU-PF will receive some $9 trillion while the two MDC formations led, respectively, by Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, will divide up the remainder.

IF WE TELL THE DEMS, THEN MAYBE WE CAN GET ALL OF THEM TO MOVE THERE! JUST DON'T TELL THEM THIS:

The total of Z$15 trillion equals some US$5-7 million at the parallel market exchange rate, which has fluctuated recently amid a severe shortage of local cash money.

BTW: IT'S NO ACCIDENT THAT MUGABE'S ZIMBABWE HAS PUBLICLY FINANCED ELECTIONS: HE'S A SOCIALIST AND LEFTIES LIKE HIM AND THE DEMS PREFER TO DO EVERYTHING WITH SOMEBODY ELSE'S MONEY.

MUGABE PROVES HOW WELL SOCIALISM WORKS: EVERYONE IS A MILLIONAIRE!

ALL AFRICA: $1 Million Note On the Way As Cash Crisis Worsens

Zimbabwe Independent (Harare) -

CASH shortages worsened this week amid speculation that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe was working on plans to introduce higher denominations of bearers' cheques.

Businessdigest understands that the central bank is finalising the introduction of $500 000 and $1 million notes.

The new bearer's cheque notes are likely to be introduced early next month. The denominations below $10 000 will be scrapped, sources said.

NO WONDER CHAVEZ WANTS TO TRY IT IN VENZUELA!

YES: IRAN IS A SOCIALIST NATION TOO.

SO WAS SADDAM'S IRAQ.

AND SO IS ASSAD'S SYRIA.

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Life expectancy in Zimbabwe is 34 years for women and 37 years for men.

I would really like you to think about that for a moment. How old are you? How much longer would that leave you to live or have you already exceeded our life expectancy?

Attending funerals is a regular occurrence in Zimbabwe.

I know many people who have died over the last few years.

Last year two of my work colleagues died within the space of a couple of months of each other. I go to funerals, I experience the awfulness of funerals, and then I come home.

But even though this is ‘normal’, I am sometimes woken up and stunned by something, and I am left horrified and shocked and very sensitive to how extreme life is in Zimbabwe.

For example, a couple of days ago I attended a child’s funeral. This is hard enough as it is, but through my tears I noticed how many freshly dug graves there were in the children’s section of the cemetery, clear evidence that lots of children are dying.

Even worse, this is a new cemetery and it’s already almost full.

I saw two women digging a child-sized grave on their own, and I was told that this was because they could not afford to pay a gravedigger to do it for them.

I was told they were alone because their men were probably out of the country working in South Africa.

The painful reality of what I saw in that place was emphasised by our Zimbabwean tradition of leaving some of the possessions belonging to the person who has died on the grave.

For children this means I was looking at a scene of small graves with bottles, toys, baby baths and other plastic pieces of childhood treasures piled on them. It is wrong, very very wrong, to see these sort of things.

South Africa looks on and tut tuts. This editorial cartoon pretty much expresses what is going on.

H/T Publius Pundit

Cross Posted at Power and Control and at Classical Values

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: Before Mugabe brought socialism the Zimbabwe it was a very RICH country which exported food - among other things. Now, Zimbabwe proves that socialism ALWAYS fails to attain its goals and is ALWAYS the road to serfdom: less liberty and less prosperity. This should surprise NO ONE; after all prosperity is a BY-PRODUCT of liberty.

All Zimbabwe needs to prosperity is FREEDOM and FREE MARKETS, and more INDUSTRIALIZATION & more GLOBALIZATION.

AND ANOTHER THING: Mugabe has destroyed Zimbabwe, and I have never ever seen one stinking bleeding heart liberal or leftie EVER march against the horrific anti-democratic/pro-tyranny, poverty-inducing policies of Mugabe. Which proves all they are is a bunch anti-American phonies who reflexively follow the failed policies of a morally bankrupt ideology which has always failed everywhere it was ever tried. LEFTISM = an immoral, false serfdom-inducing cult.