Close call on Vodka supplies
Russia was about to run out of Vodka this week! The government put a new tax on Vodka production effective JAN 1, 2006... but according to the articles I read, something went wrong with the tax stamp printing and distribution that caused ALL production to shut down for the last month!
Amazing. As incompetent as our government may seem at times, I challenge anyone to name a government anytime in history that had so much on it's plate and did a better job. Shutting down a whole industry (vodka) for a month because of poor planning OR destroying a city (New Orleans) because of poor planning... I just hope we live and learn.
Life goes on. Vodka will be produced and New Orleans will come back. (the N.O. link is a good article about the port of N.O. coming back online... it was a MESS for anyone who handles logisitics of any kind in that part of the country... like yours truely).
Amazing. As incompetent as our government may seem at times, I challenge anyone to name a government anytime in history that had so much on it's plate and did a better job. Shutting down a whole industry (vodka) for a month because of poor planning OR destroying a city (New Orleans) because of poor planning... I just hope we live and learn.
Life goes on. Vodka will be produced and New Orleans will come back. (the N.O. link is a good article about the port of N.O. coming back online... it was a MESS for anyone who handles logisitics of any kind in that part of the country... like yours truely).
posted by dshular at 7:59 PM
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