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In Venezuela, they were teachers and doctors. To buy food, they became prostitutes.
Miami Herald ^ | Deptember 22, 2017 | Jim Wyss

Posted on 09/25/2017 1:31:54 PM PDT by grundle

Edited on 09/25/2017 1:32:32 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

At a squat, concrete brothel on the muddy banks of the Arauca River, Gabriel S

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KEYWORDS: communism; prostitution; venezuela
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To: ConservativeMind
This is what Socialism did to other countries: Russia, Cuba, etc.

Exactly. Way back in 2003 when I read that Chavez had started imposing price controls on food, I knew that in the long run, this would be the outcome. Because that's what always ends up happening in the long run when a country imposes price controls on food.

41 posted on 09/25/2017 3:27:23 PM PDT by grundle
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To: HLPhat
HLPhat said: "Seems to me not starving would be a good incentive."

It would be. Unfortunately, the actions of any particular individual do not make the difference between starving or not starving. Those millions of decisions that are made by the "collective" result in a system of helplessness.

In the early Soviet era the actual incentive was that one would be shot if one failed to work on a collective farm or wherever the central planners thought you should work.

I have always appreciated the picture of empty Soviet store shelves and people lined up to buy bread next to a picture of the bakery section of a typical American supermarket. The caption reads something like, "In socialism people wait for bread. In capitalism bread waits for people."

One of my neighbors periodically fills the back of her pickup with "day old" bread products from several local businesses. She feeds this to her sheep. People in the U.S. today have to work pretty hard to stay in poverty.

They have to ignore their opportunity to get an education, have children out of wedlock, use addictive drugs, or engage in some other self-defeating behavior.

42 posted on 09/25/2017 3:36:33 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: William Tell

>>Without the machine guns and barbed wire to imprison the people

http://www.vivaproject.ca/vanuatu.html


43 posted on 09/25/2017 3:37:34 PM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: William Tell

>>I have always appreciated the picture of empty Soviet store shelves

And the fact they had to build a wall to keep their human cattle - IN.


44 posted on 09/25/2017 3:39:20 PM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: grundle
Socialism!

Remember when they were known for becoming Miss Universe finalists or winners?


45 posted on 09/25/2017 3:47:53 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Are you saying that Steve Harvey’s “mistake” was a Freudian slip?


46 posted on 09/25/2017 4:29:16 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Travis McGee

Oh My.... Unbelievable!


47 posted on 09/25/2017 5:31:40 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: grundle

I likes my hos to be edumacated.


48 posted on 09/25/2017 5:35:47 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: Big Red Badger
Beauty is a national resource.


49 posted on 09/26/2017 4:12:55 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Okay

I’m moving South!


50 posted on 09/26/2017 4:54:56 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Big Red Badger

Just bring suitcases of food and you make lots of friends.


51 posted on 09/26/2017 4:56:50 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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