A Birthday Present
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Foreign Affairs | Robert Mugabe's Incompetence — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
And a most unwelcome one--unless, of course, the destruction of Zimbabwe is intentional:
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, celebrates his 84th birthday on Thursday with an unwelcome present from his government's statistical office which says the country's inflation rate surged to a new record of over 100,000 per cent in January.
Official figures show prices rose 121 per cent during January, and while this was half the 240 per cent experienced in December and the lowest monthly figure since September 2007, it still takes the annual rate to 100,580 per cent.
Just linger over that passage a few times. It's far more powerful than anything I can write.
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Molon Labe!
Mugabe was/ is the darlling of the Religious Left and Jimmah Carter . Their silence now is telling. Someone needs to ask BHO or THe Shrew how they are going to address that mess .
Mr Global Candidate should be able to wave his socilaism wand and fix it..... um... oh wait socialism is what CAUSED that mess .
...that Zimbabwe doesn't have a Ruhr or a Sudetenland next to it.
with 3-4% historical inflation. Go figure.
Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.
One wonders how even the folks at CNN will be able to dream up positive things to say about him.
I'm sure they'll think of something, but I can't for the life of me imagine what it is. The trains aren't even running on time.
Maybe they'll praise his, you know, prowess as a "reformer."
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