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Venezuelan Government: You Are To Leave Your Jobs For 60 Days To Work In the Fields
Townhall ^ | 8/1/2016 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 08/02/2016 3:22:57 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

We all know that Venezuelan socialism has been a total disaster. People were reportedly eating dogs, cats, and birds for sustenance. Crime was spiking. Inflation is out of control—and there is what could only be described as gladiatorial battles to get the most basic supplies at the supermarkets. Energy shortages have led to rolling blackouts. Toilet paper is now a luxury item. Access to medicine has been a nightmare, with the country’s entire hospital system operating in deplorable conditions. It’s so bad that some places don’t have gloves or soap. Of course, many Venezuelans have resorted to looting to survive.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communism; starvation; venezuela
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Those coca and pot plants aren’t going to harvest themselves.


21 posted on 08/02/2016 4:21:24 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Yardstick

“Socialism with its intellectuals and its high theory always fails the toilet paper test.”

The Brown Stain of Socialism skids to a halt.


22 posted on 08/02/2016 4:30:01 PM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Esposito: From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!

Fielding Mellish: What's the Spanish word for straitjacket

23 posted on 08/02/2016 4:34:41 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (https://thepurginglutheran.wordpress.com)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

With no food, why would they need toilet paper?


24 posted on 08/02/2016 5:33:23 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Rich Eating Well in Venezuela, Basque Executive Shows
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3435902/posts


25 posted on 08/02/2016 5:34:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Working the fields. It always come to this.


26 posted on 08/02/2016 5:35:41 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, you’ll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake

Now you can go where the people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son...
What you need, my son...

Is a holiday in Venezuela
Where people are dressed in black
A holiday in Venezuela
Where you’ll kiss ass or crack


27 posted on 08/02/2016 5:48:04 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
an image from the movie the killing fields (1984)
28 posted on 08/02/2016 5:56:20 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

So the middle class opposition will be forced to work the fields. Got it.


29 posted on 08/02/2016 6:11:19 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Liberals in the U.S. are undaunted. They’ll be in denial forever, saying that, the Venezuelans are doing it wrong (socialism , that is). So, they’ll be slowly doing the socialism thing in the U.S., until it resembles Venezuela. But first, they have to make sure that the republican party becomes irrelevant, so, they (democrats) need to bring in as many “new” voters from other countries as possible, to make voting irrelevant after democrats get enough “new democrats” to make themselves vote-proof.


30 posted on 08/02/2016 6:11:26 PM PDT by adorno (w)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Mao’s Great Leap Forward all over again.

A photo of things to come under a hillary presidency.


31 posted on 08/02/2016 6:28:46 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: SandRat

What really galls me is so many dum-bass American college kids actually went there to work in the sugar cane fields.
Vencermeos Brigades they were called.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venceremos_Brigade


32 posted on 08/02/2016 6:38:39 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Hillary Clinton and obama and the democrat party are wishing they could do this here.


33 posted on 08/02/2016 8:53:12 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

“Antonio Pestana, chief of Venezuela’s farming association, told reporters last month that only 25 percent of agricultural land is actually being farmed.”

Uh, yeah. No amount of slave labor can make up for the lack of seed, fertilizer, insecticide, herbicide, and operational agricultural machinery.

[BTW, I heard that Sean Penn has volunteered to help pick turnips for a few weeks when he visits Venezuela the next time.]


34 posted on 08/02/2016 9:49:42 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: GladesGuru

To eat it in lieu of food, of course.


35 posted on 08/02/2016 10:06:48 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: jessduntno
Why is it always toilet paper that gets hit first?

I would imagine, because when there's a threat of shortages, it's one of the first things people stockpile.

36 posted on 08/03/2016 8:38:11 AM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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