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This Is What Happens To Car Sales In A "Socialist Utopia" (243 sold in June! LOL)
Zero Hedge ^ | 7-13-16 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 07/13/2016 2:49:11 PM PDT by dynachrome

Before the 'election' of President Maduro, Venezuelan domestic car sales were in the 8 to 10,000 range per month. Since Maduro's election things have gone south fast in the socialist utopia...

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: autosales; carsales; feelthebern; venezuela
Nice chart at the site!
1 posted on 07/13/2016 2:49:12 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Car ownership is frowned upon in a socialist utopia. Everyone uses public transportation.


2 posted on 07/13/2016 2:58:32 PM PDT by Duke C.
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To: dynachrome

Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth.

Socialism is the equal distribution of misery, except for the ruling class.


3 posted on 07/13/2016 3:02:50 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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Socialism is just Neo-Feudalism, with the promise to protect the peasants within the castle wall if raiders come replaced with the government raiding the peasants of their money. Then saying the government will provide them with food, housing & health with a pittance of the money that was stolen.


4 posted on 07/13/2016 3:20:31 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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5 posted on 07/13/2016 3:22:23 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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Yep. In the feudal societies, the lord left the peasants with just enough to survive and certainly not enough to get ahead.


6 posted on 07/13/2016 3:23:47 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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7 posted on 07/13/2016 3:25:31 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: dynachrome

Another biased capitalist-running-dog article. Whomcares about cars? Let them peddle bicycles as they did in Mao’s China!

Death to Inequality!! Chavez!! Maduro!! Lenin!! Old Major!!


8 posted on 07/13/2016 3:34:39 PM PDT by RossA
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All hail Queen Hillary!

It brings me great joy to see Queen Hillary riding in her limousine!

Rejoice in your blisters!


9 posted on 07/13/2016 3:34:49 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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I thought people were eating each other there ?

Who are these 243 people who decided to buy a car ?


10 posted on 07/13/2016 3:35:34 PM PDT by Celerity
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“just enough to survive and certainly not enough to get ahead.”

Sounds like how Cops are treated in America.


11 posted on 07/13/2016 3:42:15 PM PDT by Celerity
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12 posted on 07/13/2016 4:10:56 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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Thanks, Blam!


13 posted on 07/13/2016 4:18:58 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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8 to 10,000 ? 8 is not that many


14 posted on 07/13/2016 4:54:39 PM PDT by stylin19a
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Great poster! Thanks!


15 posted on 07/13/2016 5:45:20 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: dynachrome
8 to 10,000 range per month

That is a pretty wide range. If it were not for the chart, I would question if 243 sold is really outside of the ordinary.

16 posted on 07/15/2016 4:02:16 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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