Posted on 02/21/2017 5:55:07 AM PST by Rockitz
A poll released this week among Venezuelan nationals found that 75 percent of Venezuelans reported losing “at least 19 pounds” in 2016, while 93 percent of Venezuelans said they do not have the money to secure three meals a day for themselves.
The Living Conditions Survey, organized in part by three national universities, also found that 83 percent of Venezuelans were below the nation’s poverty line.
While 78 percent of respondents confirmed that they eat breakfast, only 32 percent said they eat two meals a day.
A combination of socialist economic mismanagement, government rationing of basic goods, and corruption have contributed to the situation in which Venezuela currently finds itself. For years, finding supermarkets properly stocked with basics such as flour, vegetable oil, and butter has been an odyssey for most Venezuelans. Under Hugo Chávez’s successor, Nicolás Maduro, the situation has become more desperate, with many Venezuelans resorting to extreme measures to survive.
A poll released in September found that 15 percent of the nation relied on garbage, most from industrial businesses like groceries and restaurants, to eat. Over half of Venezuelans said they had experienced going to bed hungry, and a similar amount said they were forced to take days off from work to search for food.
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They would love nothing more than for this to happen.
All in the name of “health”!
Year-round growing season. The last thing Venezuela should have a problem with is food. How the heck did they manage to screw that up?
Socialism is death.
Trump should insist that Pope Francis visit Venezuela before he ever sets foot in the United States again. Let him witness what the socialism he advocates does to real people.
MMMMmmm...That’s good rat!!!
It’s high time that someone takes on Venezuela. I hope we have a tougher line against them now
Huh. I never thought of liberal, left-leaning socialism as a diet process, but I’m sure it works. Has anyone ever seen a fat North Korean?
Has anyone ever seen a fat North Korean?
HA!!
Someone needs to Tweet this, STAT, to that fat slob Socialist Michael Moore!
And Rosie...and Whoopie...and that Joy Behar beotch...and every other fat-rumped Socialist in Hollywood!
“Has anyone ever seen a fat North Korean?”
Just the ones in charge - and they’re killing one another off at an alarming rate!
But that’s GOOD News! ;)
That’s a great idea, but alas I live in the dark ages where there is no Twitter....
I’m just throwing it out there - other Freepers will most likely carry your water. ;)
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