Posted on 01/17/2015 8:30:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Socialism: Venezuelans are being arrested for posting Internet photos of shortages in stores. So let's get this straight: Murder and mayhem are de facto legal in that crime pit, but posting evidence of socialism's failure merits jailing.
As socialism plays out to its logical conclusion in Venezuela, the specters of long lines, rationing, troop enforcers, bizarre edicts and desperate statements are now the order of the day.
Not only have more than a dozen Venezuelans been arrested for posting photographs of empty store shelves on social media, three governors have responded to long lines by — prohibiting them; ordering the arrest of anyone who lines up for goods before sunrise.
Troops now supervise lines because so many fistfights and looting incidents break out in these daily 12-hour ordeals for rice or toilet paper. Warehouses full of diapers have been seized and their owners accused of "hoarding."
Thanks to socialism, the country is falling apart. This week, UBS investment bank estimated that Venezuela had an 80% likelihood of default this year.
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I'm sure Maduro's trip around the world with his hand out didn't get any bites. He'd be knocking at Baraq's door, except he blames the US for most of his failures. So he'll probably have to swirl down the sewer drain all on his own.
Shortages undermines EVERY Communist countries’ “Socialism”.
If we had a real President, we would helping to push the Venezuelan government right over the cliff, and help them to establish a free republic.
The Communist in the White House would rather let China gain influence in our hemisphere instead.
And John Kerry the Fairy (anyone who brings James Taylor to a diplomatic meeting is a fairy imbibing pixie dust) has no clue what could be at stake .
are they suggesting that “teetering socialism” might survive without shortages?
For decades, Pinkos in this country claimed that the American sanctions were only reason Cuba was failing economically.
The rest of us knew that was a lie — and the situation in Venezuela pretty much closes the book on it. Unless somebody wants to claim that the 2014 Venezuelan Human Rights and Democracy Protection Act somehow killed their economy overnight.
everything they do to alleviate the problem is something that makes the problem worse.
They were going to make the lines go faster by fingerprinting everyone when they shop... seriously...
Maybe the other 20% is “next year”
Venezuela has pretty much put sanctions on itself.
Let it go and then hang all the communists. Send pictures to our universities.
The bad luck is staggering. Socialism and communism are perfect in theory, but every time they are put into practice, the leaders have the bad luck to choose a moment when shortages are just about to start. I can’t imagine how they manage to time things so badly - the odds must be astronomical.
They have bad luck with droughts too.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
(Robert Heinlein)
The Chinese already hold the first and second mortgages on VZ’s oil.
This is your future America.
But at least they can’t call you racist eh? :)
Hugo Chavez is dead.
His successor is incompetent and out of his depth.
Chavez’s policies were built on borrowed money, the short term profits of a temporary oil boom and then spending the money not on things that made Venezuela more competitive and productive but on extravagant social programs that did not add a bolivar’s worth to the nation’s economy.
So as a result of ruinous social and economic policies, the country is facing collapse. All the Chavista socialists are doing now is rearranging the chairs on the decks of the Titanic. And of course Chavez is not around to answer for the hell on earth he inflicted upon his nation.
They continued Chavez’ policies but seem to not understand that Hugo didn’t give a crap what happens after he was gone.
So what will be the trigger consumable good that will lead to total national revolt? TP gets them awful close. Feminine hygiene products? Salt? Soap? Food? In France it was food.
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