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Venezuelans staying the night outside stores for food
El Universal ^ | January 12, 2014 | Carrir, Abrer

Posted on 01/12/2015 9:56:42 PM PST by GeronL

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To: GeronL
Meanwhile the bus driver Maduro, 22 family members and much of his cabinet are on a world tour! How nice for them.

Collectivism always ends up the same: the self-appointed liars and incompetants living high on the hog. How surprising. People never learn from history.

61 posted on 01/12/2015 11:08:01 PM PST by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: LibWhacker

Actually I think it is the Minister of Feeding


62 posted on 01/12/2015 11:09:42 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

When Kruschev visited the U.S. the one thing that impressed him most was: supermarkets! “How do you control this?!” he asked. The answer: “We don’t.”


63 posted on 01/12/2015 11:19:26 PM PST by Dallas59
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To: LibWhacker

I believe we already have one THE WOOKIE =)


64 posted on 01/12/2015 11:19:30 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: Dallas59

bump

It is funny that foreigners who come here from certain countries think it must be some kind of trick or propaganda and that people can’t really get that food.


65 posted on 01/12/2015 11:23:27 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

“”No matter if I am very fond of this government, this is not fair,” a consumer said waiting in a line, where she spent seventeen hours.”

WOW!

Even when the situation gets this bad people don’t wake up. It’s always amazed me how much people will put up with before they rebel.


66 posted on 01/12/2015 11:23:28 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Dallas59

That was Khrushchev, tovarish. Ypa!


67 posted on 01/12/2015 11:26:30 PM PST by Pelham (WWIII. Islam vs the West)
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To: GeronL
The obvious solution is to empty the cities and have the people produce the necessities. And then shoot all the intellectuals.

It worked in Cambodia. Why wouldn't it work in Venezuela?

68 posted on 01/12/2015 11:26:39 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: GeronL

There is no incentive to produce.

This a Venezuela’s “Going Galt” moment.


70 posted on 01/12/2015 11:50:18 PM PST by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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To: GeronL

The national cops (National Guard) are heavily armed. Around ten years ago the NG was sent around to local police stations in Caracas to seize shotguns and tactical weapons from the local police.

The locals were allowed to keep their pistols...


71 posted on 01/12/2015 11:55:09 PM PST by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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To: VanShuyten

lol


72 posted on 01/13/2015 12:08:45 AM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

The more you post, the ore it sounds like us too...


73 posted on 01/13/2015 12:57:52 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: aquila48

People will willingly go into camps if they are fed the right story


74 posted on 01/13/2015 12:58:27 AM PST by varyouga
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To: aquila48

North Korea comes to mind but Venezuela has no fences - you’ll know things are getting real bad when the refugees pour out.


75 posted on 01/13/2015 1:01:10 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Nextrush

I remember that, and also remember arguing with silly liberals touting the old should-have-been-hung-after-his-first-coup-plot Chavez’s “democratic election” that things would end up this way sooner or later.

Hugo brought in Cubans to replace Venezuelan security people too, didn’t he?


76 posted on 01/13/2015 1:04:28 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: GeronL

The proverbial “You reap what you sow” scenario in full executable mode. You asked for Chaves/Maduro, so the needle on my give a damn meter hasn’t budged.


77 posted on 01/13/2015 1:05:01 AM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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Venezuela is turning into North Korea right before our eyes.

Except obolo will rush in like the cavalry claiming a humanitarian crises. He won't let another socialist venture fail.

78 posted on 01/13/2015 1:07:53 AM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: garjog

Looking at that communist faux-squaw bitch (Warren) nauseates me.


79 posted on 01/13/2015 1:09:45 AM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: varyouga

“People will willingly go into camps if they are fed the right story”

I keep telling myself that Americans will wake up once their personal lives are significantly affected by what the politicians and bureaucrats do.

Judging from the reaction of the starving Venezuelans, I may have been telling myself a lie.


80 posted on 01/13/2015 1:22:14 AM PST by aquila48
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