Posted on 02/22/2017 3:14:43 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
Socialism: Want to lose weight fast? Don't worry about the latest fad diet. Just move to Venezuela. There, the new Socialist Diet has caused the population to lose millions of pounds in 12 months. Unwillingly, of course.
A new study of Venezuela's stunning decline under Hugo Chavez's socialist model, still followed faithfully by his lap dog successor, Nicolas Maduro, reports that the average Venezuelan lost 19 pounds in the last year. Today, the 2016 Living Conditions Survey finds, 32.5% of Venezuelans eat only once or twice a day, up from 11.3% just one year ago. And 93.3% of all people don't earn enough to buy sufficient food.
American Thinker blogger Ronald C. Tinnell called it "The Venezuelan Miracle Weight Loss Program."
We call it a shocking indictment of socialism, and should be a siren call to people around the world: Bring socialism to your country, and you bring misery. It's the one thing that socialism produces an abundance of.
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The only reason socialism is failing in Venezuela is because they don’t have some of our over-educated, know-nothing snowflakes to run it!
/sarcasm off
Do the Venezuela people though still endorse expanded socialism?
North Koreans on average are several inches shorter than South Koreans (even though they are the same “people”) because of the “socialist diet”. When North Koreans are able to escape into Red China, they stand out like sore thumbs because they are short compared to them as well...
I bet they look great, though
That would have been us if Hillary won.
Did it all start with their First Lady sticking her nose in the school lunch programs?
How long before Bernie Sanders, Nazi Pelosi, and Shmuckie start ranting and raving about how we have an obligation to provide food to the Venezuelans?
Expect the mantra at the Academy Awards, blaming President Trump for the plight of the Venezuelans.
That’s always the excuse that socialist use for socialist failure, that the failed socialist systems didn’t do socialism right, and that was only when they had no choice but to admit that socialism had actually failed in those places.
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The answer to the question does the Venezuelan people still endorse expanded socialism. Yes they do. Considering I am sitting in Venezuela as I type this I have a good base to determine the answer.
Many think Chavez had things moving along like a Swiss watch and Maduro messed it all up. The only reason Chavez did not suffer the fruits of his ignorance is he died before they ripened
What is scary is in the USA we have radical university professors spewing out the benefits of socialism and moronic students believing them. Many do not have sense enough to look at countries like Venezuela, Cuba, or North Korea and see the results of socialism. They all claim it is not working in those countries because it is not applied correctly. Well it has been implemented in many courtiers by many different leaders and it has all resulted with the same outcome. FAILURE!
Starvation brings total control, the result brings power to those in charge. I guarantee the leaders aren’t starving.
Once they have eaten all their pets and zoo animals will they start on one another like in North Korea?
If you want to try the diet, just spend a month there. You don't need a dieting book, for it...
Michelle Obama intended to have our schoolchildren eating colorless tasteless bland gruel, just what any useful drone in the service of the all-powerful beast state should be grateful to have been provided,
Meanwhile she and her minions went off on weekly spare-no-expense paid for million dollar vacations,
Paging Danny Glover.......Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
When you think of the oil reserves to produce huge revenue and the vast Ocean to produce food and yet you have what you have in Venezuela. What an indictment and yet you have the Sean Penns and Danny Glover’s of the world telling the LIV what a paradise, what a great system.
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