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Venezuela’s Socialist Paradise: No Food, No Beer, No Toilet Paper, No Freedom
Independent Sentinel ^ | July 31, 2015 | S. Noble

Posted on 08/02/2015 4:26:13 PM PDT by george76

The Socialist Utopia has come to Venezuela and so has triple-digit inflation. Inflation is soaring at about 65%, murder rates are the second highest in the world, they don’t have food, chocolate,cooking oil, sugar, beer, shampoo, chicken, beef or even toilet paper. Businesses put the blame on the socialist government’s economic policies and the government blames it on everyone else.

A number of U.S. movie stars have gone to Venezuela many times to applaud their regime and compare their economy to ours. Sean Penn was one.

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American leftists cheered the Socialist government and the social justice he forced on the people. Social justice is the mantra of both Barack Obama and Pope Francis.

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All companies in Venezuela are governed by onerous foreign exchange and price controls. No company manages or keeps their own assets.

Oil used to pour the ground but now the socialists are in charge. They have gone from an oil-rich, average income country into a wasteland not even as productive as Ethiopia. The Socialists did it in only 16 years.

When Chavez came to power, Fox News interviewed a farmer whose land was being stolen because Chavez said he was one of the evil rich. He seemed like a very nice, gentile farmer, an older man, and his life was stolen from him. I remember him saying, “This isn’t right.” He then went through a litany of the people he employed and the people he helped. Now the people don’t have food because the government keeps seizing it from the farmers.

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Cuba is also heavily involved in drug trafficking with Venezuela. Cuba and Venezuela have forged a close political and military alliance.

(Excerpt) Read more at independentsentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Cuba; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chavez; energy; failedstate; gas; hugochavez; nobeer; nofood; nofreedom; notoiletpaper; oil; socialism; socialistparadise; socialists; socialistutopia; venezuela
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1 posted on 08/02/2015 4:26:13 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76
How's that socialist income redistribution Utopian thing working out for you now?
2 posted on 08/02/2015 4:29:21 PM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: george76

Give me liberty or better yet, give me some toilet paper. 2 ply, Double Quilted, Hypoallergenic Charmin please, I’m sensitive!


3 posted on 08/02/2015 4:29:29 PM PDT by lee martell (The sag)
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To: george76
When will the people stop taking this nonsense and rise up? The US is headed in the same direction.
4 posted on 08/02/2015 4:29:50 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: george76

Well, Sh#t! No, Wait! DON’T! ;)

I’m sorry for the suffering of old folks and babies under Socialism, but one group will die quickly and the other just MIGHT grow up to figure it out and embrace Liberty!


5 posted on 08/02/2015 4:31:18 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: george76

Don’t be so negative, sacrifices must be made to maintain a worker’s paradise.


6 posted on 08/02/2015 4:31:28 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: MeshugeMikey

No food?
No toilet paper?

No $#%&!!!


7 posted on 08/02/2015 4:31:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: george76

Just exactly what the Dhimmicraps and “progressives” want to create here. This is what “fundamental transformation” looks like.


8 posted on 08/02/2015 4:32:06 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: george76

Yes, but they’re all equal now...


9 posted on 08/02/2015 4:32:42 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: Fungi; GeronL
When will the people stop taking this nonsense and rise up? The US is headed in the same direction.

USSA is far worse.

Obami said that "we" cannot have these things like personal climate control of our thermostats, rights to drive what we would like where we would like, or eat the foods we choose to eat BECAUSE others around this world do not have this luxury.

Obama's reduction of our standard of living is a punishment by deliberate design. He's an antiAmerican commie bastard child.

10 posted on 08/02/2015 4:34:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: george76

No Beer? Toilet Paper?

Meet me on The Green at Concord!

Molon Labe!


11 posted on 08/02/2015 4:34:40 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: george76
Before Obama's promise to America, Hugo Chavez promised to “fundamental transform” Venezuela and did. America is now on the same path .
12 posted on 08/02/2015 4:37:47 PM PDT by drpix
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To: george76

Also not mentioned is the fact that in order to keep the scheme going the government borrowed a lot of money from China with their oil as collateral. They spent quite a bit of their inheritance already.


13 posted on 08/02/2015 4:38:48 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Fungi
When will the people stop taking this nonsense and rise up? The US is headed in the same direction.

The socialists are heavily supported by the underclass, who will riot and kill rather than allow their benefits to be imperiled.

14 posted on 08/02/2015 4:39:31 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Fungi
When will the people stop taking this nonsense and rise up?

The sheeple won't notice until the shelves are actually empty. By then it will be way too late.

15 posted on 08/02/2015 4:39:43 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: george76
No toilet paper and 65% inflation? The answer suggests itself...


16 posted on 08/02/2015 4:41:13 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: george76

Cuba and Venezuela. Can’t wait for Obama to set up some new triparte agreement and bail out the communists.


17 posted on 08/02/2015 4:41:49 PM PDT by Truth29
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They just have to learn how make air and light their food!

http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/breatharian.htm

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/diet/Not-food-not-water-only-air-to-stay-alive/articleshow/20742257.cms


18 posted on 08/02/2015 4:43:16 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: george76

Send all Commie loving liberals to Venezuela, let’s see how they enjoy that Socialism garbage they want the rest of us to suffer with..let’s see how long these celebrities, media people, and the rest of the commie left enjoy not having toilet paper, they will be glad they have hands


19 posted on 08/02/2015 4:50:28 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: george76

Find VA shortage stories on sites where liberals comment, and they will place all of the blame on the US. Not a bit of this is the collectivists’ fault.


20 posted on 08/02/2015 4:55:55 PM PDT by lurk
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