Posted on 02/20/2017 7:37:55 PM PST by grundle
In a new sign that Venezuela’s financial crisis is morphing dangerously into a humanitarian one, a new nationwide survey shows that in the past year nearly 75 percent of the population lost an average of 19 pounds for lack of food.
The extreme poor said they dropped even more weight than that.
The 2016 Living Conditions Survey (Encovi, for its name in Spanish), conducted among 6,500 families, also found that as many as 32.5 percent eat only once or twice a day — the figure was 11.3 just a year ago.
In all, 82 percent of the nation's households live in poverty, the study found.
Venezuelans suffer shortages of the most basic goods, from food to medicine, amid triple-digit inflation and a nearly 80 percent currency collapse in the last year.
A whopping 93.3 percent told Encovi researchers that their income was not enough to cover their food needs, which would explain why Venezuelans are replacing red and white meat with vegetables and tubers, mainly potato, and other cheaper options.
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Liberal takeaway: America has an obesity problem — Socialism to the rescue!!
Hmmm.
Might be a solution for the U.S.!
Something wrong with a country when the number one sign of poverty is obesity.
Things have gotten so bad that Weight Watchers and NutriSystem have pulled up stakes and left the country.
Those fat people get upset when they don’t get their food.
Have you seen those youtube videos of people who don’t get their french fries with their Big Mac and beat up the worker at the drive through window?
As a side note, the US mortality rate DECLINED during the Great Depression.
In poor countries people starve to death.
In rich countries they eat themselves to death.
Weight.
And the corollary is?
Smelling sulfur yet?
Why cant libtards move to venezuela instead of canada? I mean, nice beaches, tropical weather, free healthcare. I dont get it...
See? Socialism really IS good. It’s like a weight loss program for the entire country. Solves obesity better than Jenny Craig and Slim Fast!
Socialism works until you run out of other people’s money.
quote “In all, 82 percent of the nation’s households live in poverty, the study found.”
Obama and the Democrats should be rejoicing at this news! It means the wealth gap is very small that they think is soooo important!
Al morphed into a “human Pez dispenser!”
An Englishman and a Frenchman are at a museum, admiring a Renaissance work depicting Adam, Eve, and the apple in Eden. The Briton observes that Adam sharing the apple with his wife shows a particularly British propriety. The Frenchman, unconvinced, counters that the pair’s obvious comfort with their nudity clearly marks them as French. A passing Venezuelan, overhearing, remarks candidly, “Sorry to intrude, caballeros, but these are obviously Venezuelans: they have nothing to wear, practically nothing to eat, and they are allegedly in Paradise.”
Ask me if I give a $hit! These idiots voted for Hugo, and they had to know Communism would be a one-way street. Their only way out is to arrange to kill Maduro & Co., but that's going to take a long time because he probably feeds his military very well, just like the Kim-Jong-Un does in North Korea.
These people, like their brothers and sisters in Mexico and Central America, are too stupid to be self-governing. All of these areas in the Western Hemisphere have swung back and forth between Communism and Fascism for the whole of my life. Just another of the many reasons why we should remove those of their number who have entered our country illegally. Having them here is like wantonly pi$$ing in your soup and saying it still tastes fine.
Some only started weighing 15 pounds.
So sad what communists can do.
So I guess Mochelle O was a shadow minister.
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