Posted on 12/14/2016 10:08:00 AM PST by detective
“To Venezuelan socialists,” observed Loyola University Maryland economics professor Thomas DiLorenzo, “nothing says ‘Merry Christmas’ more than armed government goons showing up at your business and ordering you around.”
That is, in fact, precisely what is happening in that oil-rich but increasingly poverty-stricken nation. Having driven his country into penury and hyperinflation by continuing the policies of late president Hugo Chavez, President Nicolas Maduro is now forcing stores to have Christmas sales they cannot afford and even confiscating millions of toys from their distributor so Maduro can play Santa Claus by handing them out to poor children.
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The economy is not bad enough, the government is forcing the few remaining businesses into bankruptcy.
Evita Peron used to do the same thing.
Things south of the Canal never seem to change.
Nobody is poor when everything is free. What could possibly go wrong?
This really will come to an end. And it won’t be pretty.
Would a starving child want a toy or a meal?
Such a worthless POS that Maduro is.
Pray for the Peace of Venzuela.
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