Posted on 05/23/2016 4:36:47 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
About the same time I was listening to those girls sing Imagine, this item came across my news feed:
By morning, three newborns were already dead. The day had begun with the usual hazards: chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenous solutions, even food. Then a blackout swept over the city, shutting down the respirators in the maternity ward. Doctors kept ailing infants alive by pumping air into their lungs by hand for hours. By nightfall, four more newborns had died. The death of a baby is our daily bread, said Dr. Osleidy Camejo, a surgeon in the nations capital, Caracas, referring to the toll from Venezuelas collapsing hospitals.
Venezuela has some of the worlds largest supplies of oil, with more proven oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. But about 15 years ago, the late president Hugo Chavez set out to impose a socialist revolution, making a particular point about his great munificence in providing free health care for everyone. In pursuit of this revolution, Chavez crushed every industry outside the oil sector and brought the state-owned oil company under his control. The result has been a long spiral into poverty and oppression. Now we can see the results: socialism literally kills babies.
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On the other hand, insulin has about a 3 week shelf life and must be refrigerated. My wife uses it.
The evil that Obama has done will live long after him.
We are still paying the price for Jimmy Carter. Iran is responsible for most of the mischief in the Middle East. Zimbabwe has turned into a horror story.
The list could go on for a long time. Obama is doing even worse. Iran will get nuclear weapons because of him.
Valero is out of TX
The difference between Socialism and Communism is the difference between Seduction and Rape, in the end you still get SCREWED!
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Thank you.
Some hommeschoolers use the gateway site An Old-Fashioned Education as a source for online resources. Their Economics page includes a lot of Frédéric Bastiat as well as Adam Smith, Henry Hazlitt and even P. T. Barnum and Davy Crockett.
Citgo is Mexican gas. Pretty crappy gas, too. But... in the olden days of yore when you actually drove into Mexico via Tijuana and were planning on staying a while for surfing, you had to buy that crappy gas.
In those days it was fun. Not any longer. No one in their right mind would camp out on a beach there.
Citgo was always crappy gas, and some of it prolly was/is made in mexco, but it’s parent company is
CITGO.com, About CITGO, PDVSA Profile
https://www.citgo.com/AboutCITGO/PDVSAprofile.jsp
Citgo
PDVSA Profile. Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.. Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., the state oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is responsible for the ...
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You are 100% wrong. Venezuela has long owned the Citgo gasoline brand. Valero does not produce any crude but buys it from anyone.
...crappy gas?
Where's the Pope?
Now we know where the smell of sulfur cam from - it was the smell that arose from the ashes of his country!
Yes, this is a good present-day example of the nightmare of socialism to point out to the younger generation.
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