[mikelets456]

Ahhh, the sweet smell of free enterprise....**cough** controlled by the government **cough**

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[Texas Fossil]

The flat spin decent that is characteristic of all Marxist governments.

You do not recover from flat spins easily.

Can be fatal.

[Red Badger]

Define “temporarily takeover”..................

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Here comes famine!

[kittymyrib]

No doubt BO will have to send rice shipments to Venezuela next year so that his political mentor doesn’t look like a failure. It may make some of the smarter peasants in the USA who voted for Santa Obama a bit nervous if their counterparts in Venezuela are starving.

[Tarpon]

All fall down, like all state run ‘for the common good’ Communist political systems. Next, off to the gulags, then when they fill, they will need to dispose of the overflow.

Chavez is the Obamaloons template for America.

[theDentist]

I’m sure Obama is looking to Hugo as a mentor and an example for us all....

[shoutingandpointing]

"Chavez orders rice plants takeover"

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lol

Sorry, but that headline caused an image of Venezuelan rice plants on the march a la the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and the "apple tree" scene from the Wizard of Oz to flash before my eyes.

Huggy Shovies just needs to stop. Really.

[Vaquero]

this turd needs a lead aspirin to cure Venezuela's headache.

[11th Commandment]

Well it won't be long before Americans will be asked to donate money to Venezuela starvation relief funds. I am sure Americans will be guilted into donating by Hollywood liberals by implying that our excesses is leading to starvation of the poor in this otherwise rich country.

[conservativemusician]

Thanks Hugo. Just what the big O needs. More great ideas.

[antiRepublicrat]

This government is here to protect the people, not the bourgeoisie or the rich

So the rich aren't people. Dehumanizing a group is the first step in persecution. It is the basis for selling all further persecution to the masses.

Time for the rich to leave, and see what happens to the country then. Being rich, they are de facto the ones who best know how to generate value and improve an economy.

[Nathan Zachary]

Stalin ordered all the grain quota's filled too, and took every scrap of grain from every farmer. 10 million Ukrainians (many million more by other counts) starved to death.

I wonder how many Venezuelans are going to starve to death when the food processors are boarded up...

[OldNavyVet]

Another Cuba ... no hope in a nation leads to no food in that nation.

[Pessimist]

Paging Sean Penn & Danny Glover....

[caseinpoint]

It certainly appears things are spinning out of control down there. Chavez built his empire on a house of cards, or shall we say bread and circuses. Oil prices are way down, inflation is at 31 percent, price controls aren’t working as well as he hoped. Another article indicated the Cargil plant was “temporarily” taken over because it failed to print the government-mandated price on its packaging of rice while it appears Cargil is saying the offending rice packaging isn’t intended for the end consumer but for another processing. (Incidentally I have a few manufactured items from the old Soviet Union which have the price permanently affixed like a brand.) Government intervention with the market is a never-ending spiral of further intervention. Obama, are you listening?

[Piquaboy]

King Barack will take close notice of this so that he can do the same to us.

[Hacklehead]

Coming soon to a country near you.

[chainsaw]

Get ready for a wave of Venezuelans in the US as their food supply dries up.