Posted on 05/13/2016 4:11:05 PM PDT by Lorianne
This is what happens when you mix hyper-inflation, price controls, and totlaitarianism.
Pan Am Post reports:
Ramón Muchacho, Mayor of Chacao in Caracas, said the streets of the capital of Venezuela are filled with people killing animals for food. Through Twitter, Muchacho reported that in Venezuela, it is a “painful reality” that people “hunt cats, dogs and pigeons” to ease their hunger... The population’s desperation has begun to show, with looting and robberies for food increasing all the time. This Sunday, May 1, six Venezuelan military officials were arrested for stealing goats to ease their hunger, as there was no food at the Fort Manaure military base... .Supermarkets are registered into a system in such a way that they are not permitted to sell Venezuelans food 15 days since their purchase of the same product. As a result, long food lines have formed all over the country, with many people reselling their share to earn an “extra income.” -RW
It is almost impossible for me to imagine being in such a position.
Can cannibalism be far behind?
They already are throwing them off. In the last election, Maduro's party was practically destroyed, and he has lost most legislative powers. The opposition has circulated petitions to oust Madro, (the legal procedure there) and has gotten enough signatures. They have done everything they can so far. The next step us Maduro is impeached, or there is a revolution
And gullible Americans think it can’t happen here...
Welcome to you future, milenials and Berners. Idiots.
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A very good friend is Venezuelan - lives there, visits here, was an ambassador of theirs........there should have been a revolution long ago.....
But in Chicago, the thug culture dominates, and those who hate it are both in a minority - and pretty powerless to do anything, as the thugs have the guns.........
The consequences are horrific. Unexpectedly!
2+2=4. Unexpectedly!
Time to head El Norte!
I don’t disagree with your post, but the “thug culture” has roots. I believe it’s to easy to absolve all but the thug. There is a sub-culture that implicitly or explicitly supports this behavior. Their very well may be innocents in the crossfire also a lot of complicity. The same for Venezuela.
Your link is about Germany. Is that the article intended?
Common sense says they’d reach a point of suffering enough to throw off the evil system that has enslaved them - but this just shows how incredibly deceptive and gripping socialism and communism are.........
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One possibility why nations who have come under the boot of Communism or other tyranny don’t often successfully throw them off from “common sense” is that the first thing a dictator or oligarchy does is Take. Away. The. Guns.
They can have some North Koreans come over and show them how to make grass salad and tree bark soup.
Hungry people rarly revolt. That’s just a progressive myth.
In India there is a caste system of rat catchers (to help the farmers). They get to keep and eat the rats and the rice they find in the rat tunnels. Good catchers will have enough to cook and sell for additional income.
That would be an easy source of protein - think of them as squirrel without the bushy tails.
What a horrible grim existence that must be.
But hey, at least those capitalist pigs are finally paying for their crimes, eh?
I read an article awhile back where a rat catcher got a microloan to buy a new $50 invention to blow smoke down the hole. He doubled his rat count. Gets 25 cents a rat from the farmer, his wife cooked the extras and sold them for 25 cents.
He said with the new device he can send his kids to “college” (I’m guessing more like high school) - and that they won’t have to grow up to be rat catchers.
Capitalism and dreaming big at the most basic.
Yeah, and then they kept favored people, but that didn't last either.
Kush
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