Posted on 06/03/2016 10:20:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Venezuela's economic chaos, critics say is the consequence of failed socialist policies for the last 17 years, especially price and currency controls.
Venezuelan security forces fired teargas at protesters chanting "We want food!" near Caracas' presidential palace on Thursday, the latest street violence in the crisis-hit OPEC nation.
Hundreds of angry Venezuelans heading towards Miraflores palace in downtown Caracas were met by National Guard troops and police who blocked a major road. President Nicolas Maduro, under intense pressure over a worsening economic crisis in the South American nation of 30 million, had been scheduled to address a rally of indigenous groups nearby around the same time.
The protest spilled out of long lines at shops in the area, witnesses said, after some people tried to hijack a food truck. "I've been here since eight in the morning. There's no more food in the shops and supermarkets," one woman told pro-opposition broadcaster Vivoplay. "We're hungry and tired."(continued)
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Satan loves it too: his trap worked.
Communism, socialism... it is all nothing more than “Neo-Feudalism”
It used to be, give us your grain and we will protect you within our walls...
Now it is..
Give us everything you make and we will protect you and feed you a ration within our ideological walls...
This is what happens when Socialism conditions your population to expect everything from the state. They either can't or won't fend for themselves. They expect the state to provide everything and will die if the state doesn't. Complete dependence on the all-powerful state to survive. Of course, some of them may want to grow their own food, but the state puts a stop to that with stifling regulations and taxes.
I feel bad for those free-market, freedom loving Venezuelans who are suffering, but overall, its their own damn fault.
Chavez and Maduro were elected, and for the most part, represent the culture and outlook of most of Venezuela.
What they were left without being placed in jeopardy of violation of the law, was probably itty bitty gardens.
They thought that the state would have some reason to bust its rear putting food out. They were wrong.
sadly, it seems this is the kind of world the NWO elite pukes want, it’s easier to control people when they are hungry.
“We want food!” is the new “Feel the Bern!”
And the gummit apparatchiks feel like such a big shot too
Where is robert kennedy jr?
FU
All Berned out.
Some places have made a half-and-half socialist and private system, work. Sweden did. But it was the private side that made it possible for the socialist side to keep humming. Systems like Venezuela will even eat their own seed corn.
Central and South Americans have had some real thugs in control.
The problem is when they throw them out they agree to even more government control. Rarely do they turn towards freedom.
Chile is the exception and had spectacular results but even now they are shifting left again.
The charitable impulse needs to be channeled towards the service of God. It’s the easiest thing in the world to say “we will set up a government program” — and then the easiest thing in the world to abuse it infinitely.
The political leaders and their armed goons won’t go hungry.
I love it when socialists suffer.
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The socialists in the ruling class are living a life of luxury.
Do they want food, or do they want socialism? Can’t have both
I’m surprised Obama isn’t flying them all in as refugees.
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Shhhh, hush.
Not really. It's working for the moment, but doesn't appear to be sustainable. Their average household debt has been rising steadily in the last 10 years. The high taxes needed to finance the government freebies is leaving them without enough disposable income to maintain their standard of living, and they keep borrowing more and more money to make up the difference.
Ooops. You’re right - best not to give them any ideas.
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