Posted on 12/20/2016 7:23:44 AM PST by C19fan
As a harrowing economic crisis makes food scarce for millions of Venezuelans, many families cannot buy their children Christmas presents, decorate their home, or even host a holiday dinner.
The oil-rich country is suffering the third year of a recession that has sparked product shortages and galloping inflation. With a recent currency depreciation pumping up prices even higher, some parents are simply canceling Christmas.
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“The Imperialist Yanqui Bastards killed him!!”
Recession? Calling the economic disaster in Venezuela a recession is like telling a terminal cancer patient he has a touch of the flu!
Today would be the perfect time for President Elect Trump tyo appoint Bernie Sanders as Ambassador to Venezuela, so he can show them how Socialism is supposed to work.
Ummm . . . it's not a "recession." It's a total leftist-caused economic collapse and should be touted as (yet another) lesson for the whole world.
-PJ
SO Venezuela has finally reached the communist utopia. Everyone is now equal. See tagline.
The Venezuelans voted in this socialist paradise and I have very little sympathy for them. They need to learn their lesson and I suspect they haven’t learned just yet.
They traded Santa for Karl Marx.
Great tagline.
Granny is a big fat liar playing it up for the liberal reporters. Go look in granny's attic or storage closet for all those boxes of Christmas decorations she's had for 50 years. She likely has some presents hidden in there, too. But she's at the free gimme dat giveaway.
asked Santa for food for her family and pink roller skates from the Disney show "I'm Luna."
So, an eight year old who has nothing somehow wants rollerskates from a Disney movie that won't be out until next year. Uh, huh, I'm supposed to believe any of this hogwash?
"Last year I bought everything for my daughter
Well, I think that might be your problem. Buy, buy, buy. If you'd been thinking (not that past experience voting in this corrupt government shows any hope for you), you would have planned ahead of time for Christmas. For the past 2000 years, people have made presents or celebrated in other ways rather than buying out the toy store and your little brats not playing with half the load. Hmm, never used toys. There might just be a solution in there somewhere.
Santa Claus is not available this year. Mr Shortage is coming instead, and he plans to stay a while.
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