Sri Lanka It's Happening

April 22, 2008

The price of rice has been rising for quite a while now. This is largely because of the halfwits in parliament, there is a minister for trade, one for agriculture and one for consumer affairs (quarter wit). They have with the help of Minister Sirisena's brother managed to drive the price of rice above Rs 100.00 per kilo. The farmer get's about 30 bucks out of it.

So the dimwit minister of consumer affairs decides to impose a price control on rice (no doubt he warned minister Sirisena's brother before hand). As a result wholesalers and retailers alike now claim they are selling rice at a loss of about Rs 10 - 20 per kilo. Those who refuse to sell at a loss find their stores being raided by thugs cops.

So the rice sellers were forced to sell at a loss but they refused to obtain new stocks. (Apparently it's illegal to hoard rice but perfectly legal to hoard paddy. So any rice or paddy with) and apparently those stocks ran out today. Now the dimwit has raised the controlled price by 10 rupees!!