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Imagine No Possessions, Imagine Venezuela
The Federalist ^ | May 20, 2016 | Robert Tracinski

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 nation’s capital, Caracas, referring to the toll from Venezuela’s collapsing hospitals.

Venezuela has some of the world’s 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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: collapse; communism; cuba; hugochavez; nicaragua; nicolasmaduro; russia; venezuela
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1 posted on 05/23/2016 4:36:47 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: metmom; wintertime; Tired of Taxes

This has nothing to do with homeschooling or education, but parents who homeschool could use this as an example of what happens when Socialism takes root. There are homeschoolers who teach economics, right?


2 posted on 05/23/2016 4:37:46 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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3 posted on 05/23/2016 4:39:00 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; GeronL; ..

I cannot emphasize this enough: Venezuela has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. Am I the only person who fears this could happen in the U.S.?


4 posted on 05/23/2016 4:40:13 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Feel the Burnie....


5 posted on 05/23/2016 4:43:49 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Anyone who advocates socialism like this commissar Sanders should be vilified by the media, not celebrated.


6 posted on 05/23/2016 4:45:01 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Clintonfatigued

No doubt it coukd occur here. All the more reason to prep for the longer term and move away from concentrations of ferals.


7 posted on 05/23/2016 4:45:21 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Clintonfatigued; All
I cannot emphasize this enough: Venezuela has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia.

I know that Venezuela sells gasoline in the US under the name VALERO. Since Chavez became the dictator there, I for one have no interest in patronizing those gas stations.

8 posted on 05/23/2016 4:48:10 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: Clintonfatigued

No.


9 posted on 05/23/2016 4:48:18 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: justiceseeker93

Citgo.


10 posted on 05/23/2016 4:49:36 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist
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To: Clintonfatigued

There’s no reason to imagine. Those empty shelf pictures could have been taken at my local Texas HEB. I always have a continuing two column list of BASIC foodstuffs printed out on a regular sheet of paper with the 25 most important items starred. I’ll be lucky to mark off a third of the list. Cauliflower, an apple corer and a fly swat have been on the list for a year. The last trip to the store was the first time they’d ever carried puff pastry sheets so I grabbed four. I’m not holding out hope they’ll be in stock next time. Milk and bread may not be stocked.


11 posted on 05/23/2016 5:11:08 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Clintonfatigued

They figured out how to beat the 2 biggest problems of our time:

1) The income gap - if everyone makes $0 there’s no gap
2) Climate change - no money for gas or electricity means no CO2. In a related plus for the greenies they don’t waste natural resources to wipe the Hilary off their butt since they don’t have toilet paper.

It’s a liberal’s paradise. Not sure why they’re all talking about moving to Canada if Trump wins. Venezuela is the place to be.


12 posted on 05/23/2016 5:13:19 PM PDT by LostPassword
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To: Clintonfatigued

This may seem harsh, but I wish they would send photos of the dead Venezuelan babies to the US professors and college students.


13 posted on 05/23/2016 5:14:51 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Clintonfatigued

Nope. For the first time ever we are stocking cans and dogfood too!


14 posted on 05/23/2016 5:17:00 PM PDT by MarMema (`)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Am I the only person who fears this could happen in the U.S.?

No, you're not. There are many in top gov positions who's goal is this very thing. Many of those are Obama appointees so his legacy will continue long after he leaves office.

15 posted on 05/23/2016 5:18:16 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: blueunicorn6

I talk about the horrible stuff happening there to lots of people and most have no idea.
We sent gloves, chuks, and bandages to a group in Miami that is smuggling things into the country via Amazon.
Then today I sent a box of snack bars, tootsie rolls and some other basics to them as well.

If anyone wants an address to send things to, please message me.
My heart is breaking for these people. They are killing people on the streets for a few dollars. They beat and burn them alive.
Thugs are everywhere and crime is rampant.

I hate Maduro so much.


16 posted on 05/23/2016 5:20:24 PM PDT by MarMema (`)
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To: Clintonfatigued

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/49be3c89fe3d4ef990a944c323dffaab/mob-burns-venezuelan-man-alive-over-5-rule-law-fails


17 posted on 05/23/2016 5:23:52 PM PDT by MarMema (`)
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To: bgill

Milk and bread may not be stocked.

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Powdered milk and flour have very long shelf lives.


18 posted on 05/23/2016 5:26:29 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Crooked Hillary's going down and I aint talkin about, on Huma.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Well at least commienizm cures obesity.


19 posted on 05/23/2016 5:26:38 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: Graybeard58

Which is why they’re already in the pantry.


20 posted on 05/23/2016 5:29:07 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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