Posted on 04/03/2016 4:27:06 PM PDT by MtnClimber
nezuela is, once again, in the throes of a full-blown electricity crisis. Citizens complain of unannounced blackouts are shutting down factories, forcing shopping malls to close early, and otherwise wreaking havoc on an already-sputtering economy. The crisis is so severe that President Nicolás Maduro has curtailed working hours for government workers. Last week he even extended the Holy Week holiday to reduce power usage.
And Venezuelans are preparing for even worse news. Many are anxiously monitoring the dwindling water supply of the enormous Guri dam, which supplies roughly half of the countrys electricity. Experts are predicting that, as soon as next week, water levels will reach such a low level that the turbines will have to be shut down. If that happens, the electricity crisis will turn into a catastrophe.
As Venezuelans await the fate, they must be wondering whether their countrys electricity supply will outlast its incompetent government. Because even though the imminent shutdown of the Guri dam is the result of a drought, its the socialist governments incompetence manifested in myriad fashions that is the root cause of the energy crisis.
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“They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work” - Cuban worker.
They’re getting what they voted for, why complain?
But, they are also voting me into slavery and poverty.
It’s not just Sanders who wants this, even skeezy RINO’s like McCain, Kasich, Bush, and Boehner want this eventually.
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Yes, we are both right. I also posted this in post #40 although I made a mistake in my italics off HTML.
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I’m sorry to say it, but this is isn’t a bad thing.
Human memory is short, and the human impetus towards political fantasy and tyranny is strong.
We seem to need an on-going, socialist disaster in motion at all times to keep us lucid to the dangers collectivism always poses. Like teachers pointing out the drug-addicted kid in your class who overdosed to keep everyone else way from drugs.
Old Rhodesian ex-pat joke...
Q: What did Zimbabweans light their houses with before candles?
A: Electricity.
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Ditto :)
Socialism works fine until you run out of someone’s electricity!
No “precision long-distance .50cal BMG riflemen” in that country, anymore. Sad.
atlas shrugged
Colombia’s economy grew by 3%,in comparison.Looks like the countries that went to the far-left,in Latin America,got royally screwed.Probably wouldn’t be the smartest to keep electing leftists.
We may not have to wait that long. If the water at the dam gets too low Obama is likely to blame it on evil Republicans and global warming and thus spend another zillion U.S. dollars for his socialist friends.
...that was elected...
I can’t imagine anyone building turbines where they’d likely be nationalized, but like power plants in Arizona built to sell power to California, the market might find a way if allowed to.
The Constitution does not give socialist idiots the right to vote away my freedom. The left disagrees and think they are god. I have a god test. Hitler failed.
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