Posted on 08/01/2016 12:25:35 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Caracas, Venezuela – In Spanish there is an old saying that goes something like this: “Tell me what you brag about, and I'll tell you what you lack." In today’s Venezuela, the folksy saying seems confirmed.
While the socialist government officials often rant about “equality,” “austerity” and “anti-imperialism,” the expensive watches Chavistas flaunt, along with their travels, tell a whole different story about what their priorities are after hours.
Launched in 2014, the blog Relojes del Chavismo (Chavismo's Watches) has posted more than 150 pictures of high-ranking officials wearing all sorts of expensive watches, mostly Swiss made.
The list of watch aficionados includes President Nicolas Maduro, Assemblyman Diosdado Cabello and Army General Vladimir Padrino Lopez, who was recently appointed financial czar to try and rescue the country’s collapsing economy.
All together, the watches on the blog add up to more than $500,000, according to the site administrator.
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This reminds me of the story of Joseph during the 7 years of famine when the people gave all they owned to the pharaoh to survive and ended up as slaves.
Democrats in Detroit, etc. do that same.
Moochelle now tells us America is great.
In other words:
“I got mines.”
A sentence from a book about pigs and other critters comes to mind.
This will be how hillary and her ilk will be once she gets WH. We will be lucky to resemble the poverty streets in Venezuela.
You think obama spends taxpayer money....that will be nothing compared to madam hilliar.
Some animals are more equal than others........................
At the end of the day, socialism is just a spoils system.
Let them eat cake or keep time by the position of the sun.
Preferably by the lengtht of the shadows through their prison cell.
ABSOLUTELY. Whatever it takes. A GRRRRREAT place to start...
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
This is the nature of socialism. Those with political power control the economy.
Anyone ever check out what wrist watches Bill Clinton began to wear once he got out of the White House and ditched his “man of the people” Timex Ironman?
Panerai, Jaeger-LeCoultre, IWC, A. Lange & Sohne . . . .
Easily several hundred thousand dollars. Pretty good for someone who was “broke” when he left the White House.
The Democrat Party bosses views their voters in a similar way.
Anyone surprised? Kruschev, Breshnev and other Soviet leaders hunted with very expensive shotguns made by Purdey and other London gunmakers (these guns cost around $150,000 today). The Soviet gunmakers could make very high quality guns themselves, but the Russian dictators felt the need to shoot with the same guns the English aristocracy used. Kruschev did present Harold McMillan with a top quality Russian double barrel shotgun, a gift from one Elite to another Elite.
They are the peoples’ watches.
Just think of it as “Progressives” in action.
Your stuff is theirs.
Their stuff is theirs.
You are a racist, capitalist, sexist, xenophobic pig.
Any questions?
Hmm...what was that potato sack Hillary wore to the convention worth? Enough to put a ghetto child through a year of school? How about the $600,000 one night vacation Mooch took to Morocco? How many school lunches could that have bought? Our ruling class makes Venezuela’s look like cheap dates.
Give the commies a break, won't ya!
“I tired of people criticizing Socialism. The redistribution of wealth is one of the greatest ideas there is.” - Maria Chavez (4.2 billion in assets)
The Chinese are getting paid in oil,the other creditors are bring paid after they sell the gold...I wonder where they are getting money for such bourgeois items??? Dead Hugo`s daughter has 5 billion to play around with.So much for helping the poor..It`s every chavista for himself.
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