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Small problem: Socialist Venezuela has run out of food
Canada Free Press ^ | 02/19/16 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 02/19/2016 2:13:00 PM PST by Sean_Anthony

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To: SkyDancer

Which is why prepping in the long term is probably useless.


21 posted on 02/19/2016 2:48:03 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: SkyDancer

They can’t confiscate the fish I haven’t yet caught, the dove, squirrels, rabbits and wild hogs I haven’t harvested.


22 posted on 02/19/2016 2:57:37 PM PST by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: Popman

reality.

kids go to college and come home brainwashed

their heads will survive.

i dont need your permission to procreate. too late anyway.


23 posted on 02/19/2016 2:59:03 PM PST by dp0622
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To: Popman
One of my fondest memories of father was when the movie Doctor Zhivago came out and I insisted I was old enough to go because my sister was a mere two years older and she was going. I kept whining about it and finally DAD offered me a deal. I could go only if I read and gave him a book report on THE NAKED COMMUNIST, then as now one of the best books available on this evil system. I read it cover to cover in four days and gave him a decent book report.

Mom took me to the Saturday matinee the following weekend. That book and movie changed my life and outlook.

24 posted on 02/19/2016 3:00:04 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: miss marmelstein

There are ways to protect yourself from confiscation. I doubt it would happen here but then you never know. Some local catastrophe might be cause for the ‘attempt’ at confiscation but I would not like to consider the consequences should a pseudo group of ‘government officials’ come tapping on the door requiring you to give up necessities you’ve harbored for your own survival. That would happen I guess if Bernie Sanders won the WH.


25 posted on 02/19/2016 3:02:44 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: jy8z

No, but they’ll have the military or whatever out there doing that before you could get at them.


26 posted on 02/19/2016 3:03:27 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: miss marmelstein

Not necessarily. If things really went wrong in a big way, a large segment of society would die off fairly quickly. Think of the bell curve.


27 posted on 02/19/2016 3:05:06 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Same thing that happened to Burma in Asia.
Before W.W. II Burma had a thriving oil industry and agricultural industry. They supplied oil and rice all over Southeast Asia.

After the war the socialists took and the reverse happened. Burma had to import food and even gasoline.

They have never recovered.


28 posted on 02/19/2016 3:05:54 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Vigilanteman

You had excellent parents.


29 posted on 02/19/2016 3:06:02 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Flick Lives
>>Well they ran out of toilet paper awhile back, so it’s probably a good thing the food has now run out. No input = no output<<

It's better to run out Food BEFORE you run out of Toilet Paper IMHO.

Lucky for us we still have the LA Times, New York Times and Washington Post print editions as a backup.

The Paper Stock they use is a little rough and you'll end up with an A$$ darker than Obama’s from the Ink, but you have to use what you have to use.

30 posted on 02/19/2016 3:09:31 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Get the CDS and TDS Vaccines before it's too late.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Does Maduro go without food or toilet paper? The answer should answer the question “is socialism good for me?”


31 posted on 02/19/2016 3:13:02 PM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: dp0622

Same here!


32 posted on 02/19/2016 3:16:27 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump the lying RNC/GOPe Open Borders elite thugs! Say hell no to their candidates! Go TRUMP!)
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To: Grampa Dave

:)

somebody told me not to have kids lol.

lead by example.

when they come home from college smug @####s, the wall works.


33 posted on 02/19/2016 3:17:58 PM PST by dp0622
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To: poobear

According to Diario las Americas, Maria Gabriela Chavez, 35, the late president’s second oldest daughter holds assets in American and Andorran banks totaling almost $4.2billion. Somehow I believe she has found some toilet paper.


34 posted on 02/19/2016 3:20:47 PM PST by Vehmgericht
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To: Organic Panic
I lived in Venezuela in the 70s. It was a good place with a growing middle class. There was also great poverty at the bottom. However the poverty levels became less and less with each year.

The real problem was corruption at the top. It was corrupt and breed great resentment from the voting population. As side note I should explain it was crony capitalism which is also endemic here in the United States and explains why Bernie Sanders is popular. Socialists and Marxists never win elections without legitimate grievances against the ruling elite. Once a Marxist wins an election all subsequent elections mean nothing as they count the votes.

The corruption in Venezuela led to the election of Chavez an avowed Marxist but he did not run as a Marxist. He ran as a progressive, just like Bernie Sanders and Hillary. His first election was legitimate and he really did win. The people were angry with the corruption in government.

Chavez may have won his reelection but it is very doubtful. His appointed Marxist successor has not won any election. He is President due to election fraud.

Venezuela will never be a free democracy via the ballot box. If it is ever free again, it will be because of men and women with guns in their hands that say this will not stand.

The future of Venezuela will be great bloodshed if democracy wins. Otherwise it will be a slow gray grind to socialist despair of which a great people become naught but naught and of no value to the state least what they can do for the state and thus are naught.

35 posted on 02/19/2016 3:21:22 PM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: jy8z

“They can’t confiscate the fish I haven’t yet caught, the dove, squirrels, rabbits and wild hogs I haven’t harvested.”

If TSHF and you need to harvest wild food, you’ll be joined by 10,000 others in your area, most of whom are ignorant of woodscraft, hunting and the handling firearms. At least buy a case of beans and a bag of coffee and hide it under the bed. You’ll thank yourself for your wise prescience.


36 posted on 02/19/2016 3:26:46 PM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: SkyDancer

I think they already did that to the food hoarders


37 posted on 02/19/2016 4:00:11 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey (You don't have to like Trump, his enemies certainly don't.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

38 posted on 02/19/2016 4:07:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Vigilanteman
That book and movie changed my life and outlook.

Reading Mila 18 by Leon Uris changed my life at 13 years old....

Made me realize evil is a real thing and alive and well...

I buy my children (six) on their 16th birthday both Mila 18 and Atlas Shrugged...with a nice incentive to finish both...

Of course, I could just put my kids head to the wall....that normally works so well.../ S

39 posted on 02/19/2016 4:08:01 PM PST by Popman
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To: dp0622
kids go to college and come home brainwashed

Only if you never built within them the basic fundamentals of reason and logic...

Of course some will be permanently brain washed until mugged by life...

40 posted on 02/19/2016 4:12:08 PM PST by Popman
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