It was bad enough that their supreme leader declared that all farms now use organic growing methods, prohibited the importation of fertilizer and crashed their food supply. Looks like their socialist policies are bearing bitter fruit everywhere. From Al Jazeera:
With no fuel and no cash, Sri Lanka grinds to a halt
Sri Lanka has less than a day’s worth of fuel left, the energy minister says, with public transport grinding to a halt as the country’s economic crisis deepens.
Power and energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera on Sunday said petrol reserves were about 4,000 tonnes, just below one day’s worth of consumption, as queues snaked through the main city of Colombo for kilometres.
And this sounds about right:
In Colombo, protesters have been occupying the entrance to the president’s office for more than two months to demand President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation.
They accuse him and his powerful family, including several siblings who hold top government positions, of plunging the country into the crisis through corruption and misrule.
They used to export fuel. Used to be a really nice nation - writer Arthur C. Clarke loved living there (although there is a very dark side to this).
Socialists - they never learn. There is no exit strategy to top-down management. Capitalism may be "messy" to an academic but it works and the more hands-off, the better it runs. Reminds me of Vox Day's old aphorism:
In academia there is no difference between academia and the real world; in the real world there is.
So true...
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