Posted on 06/29/2016 5:13:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
In the darkness the warehouse looks like any other, a metal-roofed hangar next to a clattering overpass, with homeless people sleeping nearby in the shadows.
But inside, workers quietly unload black plastic crates filled with merchandise so valuable that mobs have looted delivery vehicles, shot up the windshields of trucks and hurled a rock into one driver’s eye. Soldiers and police milling around the loading depots give this neighborhood the feel of a military garrison. […]
The fight for food has begun in Venezuela. On any day, in cities across this increasingly desperate nation, crowds form to sack supermarkets. Protesters take to the streets to decry the skyrocketing prices and dwindling supplies of basic goods. The wealthy improvise, some shopping online for food that arrives from Miami. Middle-class families make do with less: coffee without milk, sardines instead of beef, two daily meals instead of three. The poor are stripping mangoes off the trees and struggling to survive. …
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Feel the Bern...
Bern, the, feel.
Yeah, I saw this on CBS news last night! Okay, maybe not.
Taking bets on the first day that cannibalism is reported...
Luckily we live no closer to this country or else they would be coming here by the hundreds of thousands. I’d imagine that anyone with the means to leave there already has.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money, then their food, then bullets and then the mob hangs the leaders with piano wire from lamp posts.
Bern the fields?
Trump should hang this fiasco on Obama and Hillary — Venezuela is a socialist paradise!!
When the government prints money, doesn’t food magically appear? Strange how there are shortages. Must be an American imperialist conspiracy.
Socialism ironically creates the social environment leftists decry....a few rich at the top and everyone else poor. But with socialism there’s not a thing you can do about it.
All in the name of fairness and sharing....
“I’d imagine that anyone with the means to leave there already has.”
That’s why Mexico doesn’t have a very good Olympic team — Anyone that can run, jump, or swim is already here in the US.
This makes Bernie sad. That could be happening in the US soon if Hillary hadn’t got in his way.
He’s still hoping the FBI comes though and paying attention to Venezuela for potential cabinet members if she gets indicted.
You would have three choices:
1) Join a mob and try to get something to live on for today.
2) Starve.
3) Ensure you enter that season with a plan in place to survive.
“Officer, please, for God’s sake, they’re looting the Food King”
Now I see how it works.
A sneak peek at Clintoon’s utopian America.
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