Posted on 01/10/2015 4:38:36 AM PST by grundle
A country where liberals got everything they wished for. Congratulations.
Try for the fried tarantulas and a 26ft anaconda could feed a village!
Well done Marxists!
This is exactly what Democrat politicians will do here when they are comfortably secure in their power over the populace.
You voted for them and think you won’t be affected? Think again. They’ll get to a point to where they don’t need your vote, and you’ll just be the rabble, and you will be put to work. You can forget your EBTs, your SNAP, your WICs, your TANF, your Section 8. Your ticket to minimal subsistence will be your time card when you punch in at some menial job you’re given by them and have to work 12 hours a day.
All tyrants know that the cheapest way to control the little people is to control the supply of food. Just look at what Stalin did to the Ukrainians in the 19e0s with the blessings of The New York Times.
Makes you wonder why there is such a push to destroy the family farms through over regulation in this country.
And John Boehner and Jeb Bush are the only alternative to what those dirty Democrats will do.....right......(sarc)
How’s that welfare system working for you folks?
A Russian friend who escaped the Soviet Union landed in Italy. He tells the story about discovering a grocery store. They didn’t believe it. So, he and his wife sneaked back at 1:00am to see if the food was still there. They thought it was just there for propaganda. He said that no store stocked like that would have survived the day with full shelves. Isn’t socialism grand?
I never said that. You presume wrongly. Actually, I don’t hold much hope from that happening here - Republican or Democrat.
Socialism = shared misery. I see the “haves” we’re finally equalized and are now the “have nots”. I’m guessing the elitetists there are just fine.
Good comments on this one:
Looks just like the department store I went to in communist East Berlin in the early 80’s, their show off to tourist city. All I could think of is if there is nothing on the shelves here where they are trying to impress on Westerners how good communism is, how bad is it in the rest of the country.
Funny how, despite the food shortages, Chavez always appeared well fed.
“Looks just like the department store I went to in communist East Berlin in the early 80’s...”
My family was in Europe in the 80’s visiting my brother stationed there and also went to East Berlin. Your description of the conditions is exactly what they told me. Little on the shelves, and long lines waiting to buy those scarce items. Since they couldn’t trade their East German currency back to Western Marks they spent it at the only business without a line, a patriot store. That’s how I came to own a Red Banner and an East German flag.
Worker’s paradise, my ass!
I apologize for any offense, it just seems to me that demonizing Democrats is not worth it.
This is as best I understand the comments of a Venezuelan blogger the disappearance of production because there is no incentive in the Cuban style system.
Venezuela is going Galt.
I have a similar story of a Russian friend who brought their mother to an American grocery store for the first time. The mother was almost in tears with disbelief at the quantity of food she saw.
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act according to Orwell
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