Venezuelans cried at the sight of fully-stocked supermarket shelves in Colombia.

money.cnn.com ^ | July 20, 2016: 11:56 AM ET | by Patrick Gillespie, Rafael Romo contributed

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Pregnant women, children and even elderly Venezuelans crossed into Colombia on Sunday after the border was temporarily reopened, allowing them to buy basic foods and toiletries -- rare commodities in their home country.

Tearful Venezuelans had gone weeks without basic food items like milk, flour and toilet paper. It's a sad but common part of daily life today in crisis-ridden Venezuela, a country that has the world's largest proven reserves of oil. Colombian officials estimate that about 100,000 Venezuelans crossed the border.

Venezuela is expected to dive deeper into the abyss this year, according to new projections published Wednesday by the International Monetary Fund.

[TexasTransplant]

**** “We should start offering to BUY oter countries and make them new states.” ****

YEAH we have this thing called a printing press ... we can print as much money as we want!

“That” will be Obamas Legacy ... he has destroyed us

[Vince Ferrer]

"You know, it's funny. Sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is when people are lining up for food. That's a good thing. In other countries, people don't line up for food. The rich get the food and the poor starve to death," Bernie Sanders.

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A lady friend at work asked if a Venezuelan family could be convinced to sell a special-needs child and a smuggler paid to get her to America in return for a months’ worth of her disposable income for the family. (she lost hers to a drug-resistant pneumonia strain and the US adoption process is a cruel joke)

The grim part is they probably would, since with medicine and food both at a premium if you have any serious condition it is easily a death sentence.