Posted on 05/21/2016 8:28:46 AM PDT by yoe
They call them bachaqueros. Venezuela’s army of black market shoppers descend every day at dawn outside Caracas’s biggest stores.
They stand for hours in the blistering heat, motivated not by hunger, but profit.
Half-empty shelves in most shops means goods bought at government-controlled prices can be sold at a significant mark-up.
[snip]Led by Hugo Chávez, the country’s firebrand former president, the country embarked on a wave of expropriation and redistribution with the charismatic leader offering cut-price fridges, appliances and even new homes to poor Venezuelans.
Chávez wanted to create a socialist paradise, an ideology that has been reinforced by his successor Maduro following his death in 2013.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Hugo led the perfect Marxist's life.
He lived the fantasy of Marxism and died before the reality caught up with him.
And the flood of poor immigrants and inner city dependents will vote for this every time. Ignorant people still think there is such a thing as a free lunch.
Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience. ~ John Locke 1690
Wrong. Reality caught up with him the moment he died. He came face to face with Stalin and the rest at that moment.
I love quoting myself:
The primary beneficiaries of a socialist program are the socialist politicians. The secondary are the bureaucracies, and tertiaries are the supposed recipients. Everything after is fluff.
It’s REALLY easy to determine why in 1 word: socialism.
No other explanation needed.
They ran out of other peoples money.
This article comes from England, where I’m sure the author thinks they do socialism correctly.
1 Backing quotas for hiring based on other than competence.
2 Exorbitant taxing for redistribution to favored groups.
3 Regulation imposed from above to constrain options and foster dependence on bureaucratic authority.
Excerpt from article:
Many Venezuelans have already left the country, including Francisco Flores. “Venezuela has taken good working companies, given them to the poor but not equipped them with the skills to run them so they go bankrupt,” he says.
“That’s just a recipe for destroying a country.”
The NHS therapist, who now lives in London, says the regime is based on a principle of keeping everyone “equal but poor”.
“This way, the state becomes a nanny and everyone loses the power to do anything because they are so dependent on it.”
Easy...hilltards and berntards with an obozo pResidency encouraging them to be all that they could be.
And Hugo died in bed after submitting himself to Cuban socialist doctors to treat his cancer. Of course they completely screwed that up. Near the end he must have had some insight on where he was going, as he whimpered “please don’t let me die” as the demons came to drag him down to hell.
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