Posted on 09/15/2016 11:07:00 AM PDT by C19fan
Seriously.....it’s against the law in Venezuela to stand in line to buy food.
The government thinks it makes them look bad.
The government cannot afford food but it can afford advanced security devices to keep the hungry in line. That's life in a totalitarian police state.
I note that our own government has not succeeded in making healthcare "affordable", rather the opposite, but it has succeeded in setting up an enforcement mechanism through the IRS. It isn't even ironic, it's just how totalitarians work.
Nobody deserves this, but nature has no pity.
Need to reverse course in the US before we destroy all the producers here.
FYI. this sort of has a bearing on what we were discussing earlier. Note that the government agents soldiers/police are still “following orders” and to hell with the people. Human nature is not any different in the USA than it is in Venezuela, and again no shortage of JBTs to enforce it. I think here we may make a partial shortage for a while and most of us who consider themselves citizens rather than subjects have plans and lists, but I’m not terribly optimistic about the bulk of the populace.
Joe Kennedy. Jimmy Carter.
Remember that the Nobel winning economist Joe Stiglitz ( Obama adviser) gave his stamp of approval to the Chavez economy.
What, they do not know about Black Friday Walmart?
Venezuela is breaking my heart. Had a co-worker from Maracaibo years ago who took me home to meet her family there for Christmas one year. They were middle class. Beautiful extended family who welcomed me into their Christian, conservative home. I lost touch with them after Chavez. One brother of my friend was kidnapped, tortured and left tied to a tree to die while out working on his small farm one day. Fortunately the family missed him and 2 brothers went out and found him. He had multiple knife wounds but recovered after time. They sold the farm due to that. The family business was confiscated. It was a year or so after that I lost touch. They were all anti-Chavez. I still pray for them and the nation daily but I fear what has become of them.
Well, getting arrested at least has the benefit of keeping him fed while awaiting trial
If they had any money left they’re probably in south Florida. The condo boom there was fueled for many years by Venezuelans who had the foresight and wherewithal to flee.
Like you I wish we could send all the commie celebs to that solcialist hellhole Venezuela has become. Except that its a beautiful country and they don’t deserve the beauty.
You’re right, it was Hugo Chavez. He’s rotting in hell now and they have Maduro who is worse if possible. They’re trying to boot him out but his thugs have total control. It’s exactly what Zero wishes he could do here.
Not everyone in the country allowed this. There were good people there fighting Chavez and his thugs. We talk about WTSHTF here but it happened there.
Nothing new.
“In 1994, former President Bill Clinton released an executive order that lumped together a number of laws that could go into effect in the event of a declaration of martial law. One of the laws included in this order, number 10998, allows the federal government to sieze hoarded food supplies from both public and private sources.”
I expect every name on the petitions for a recall election to boot out Maduro is at risk for being yanked out of those lines, out of their beds at night, or just shot by "roving bands of miscreants. "
Hugo Chavez
So my point is that the libtards made this guy sound like God’s son but now nobody saying, Look America if you keep this up it will be the same here......
Just once I want to hear a tie back to the fact that socialism and its terrible Father communism always fail, I would argue, has retarded the human race.
Look, Obama is doing the same thing here.....Etc.
Its frustrating so I Pray. God Bless you. ; )
Two members of the family had Visas here before I lost touch. As i said it was a middle class family and as typical for latin families, very large. They were law abiding type people and I don’t think they’d have been comfortable doing the illegal entry. Honestly, I do pray EVERY DAY that tbey managed to escape this. The two kids with visas were in Texas and Louisiana. My friend’s husband passed away and she moved to unknown parts while i was working and living 200 miles away. I’ve googled. No current results. It was about 12 yrs ago that my friend was widowed and that’s when i lost all touch.
We can all discuss how they should have prevented this but when you know people, it hits home. It also makes it much easier to see how easily it could happen here.
The people had been placed on national relief, but no food could be found for them in the empty granaries of the nation at the frantic call of the moment -- so the seed grain of the farmers of Nebraska had been seized by order of the Unification Board -- and Train Number 194 had carried the unplanted harvest and the future of the people of Nebraska to be consumed by the people of Illinois. "In this enlightened age," Eugene Lawson had said in a radio broadcast, "we have come, at last to realize that each of us is his brother's keeper."
For a deeper analysis, check my tagline and check that chapter in the book.
I am in full agreement with you. You get absolutely no arguement here.
My friends in Venezuela were not wealthy but they were prepared. Owned weapons, kept food stored. The mobs of the poor rose up and wanted their entitlements. This is what i see in tbe BLM bunch. When the sheer numbers of the thugs reach the tipping point and the gubmint is taking away our guns, food and rights we become Venezuela.
Got a link to your book?
I have a lot of empathy for people caught up in this, I suspect many have been just trying to live their lives and had this imposed upon them. It’s never good to see a country in such dire straits, even if the government of that country deserves to fall. The misery will spread, war will break out. Food aid in exchange for government reforms would make sense, if the reforms led to a more representative, less repressive government. I’m not so sure that would be the case at present, though.
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