[EdnaMode]

Venezuela is proof that socialism doesn't work. Yet millions of people (especially millennials) want it in the US.

[Gay State Conservative]

Apart from the Communism part...I’ve read that Venezuela’s oil reserves are of some kind of inferior quality that’s not in high demand. IIRC is was something about high sulfur content.

[redfreedom]

Having a wealth of natural resources is quite meaningless to a millennial as it means opportunities for business and employment.

Our current culture has socially engineered these deadbeats to hate business and be too lazy to work.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

How can this be when Sean Penn assured us that “Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of vice president Nicolas Maduro,”

[BlessedBeGod]

Funny how the NY Times avoided saying why everyone has been starving to death. You'd think that would be the most important point that they would make in the article. Besides their oil production being a wreck, Maduro has totally destroyed their agriculture. They can't feed themselves like it used to be so easy to do.

[factoryrat]

Isn’t socialism wonderful!

This is what the socialist democrats and RINOs in the US aspire to. Total top down command and control.

Because starvation is for the little people. The elite are exempt.

[ExSES]

I know a couple of Venezuelan families. One, the husband, was a bank manager with a stay at home wife who managed their small estate, domestic help and raised the kids. He now mows lawns and his wife is a waitress here in the USA. The other..., the husband was an attorney and his wife a teacher. Quite prosperous prior to Chavez and Maduro..., he now labors in a tile installation crew and his wife is a motel maid! They all are just thankful that they can work and build a future here in the USA. They send money home to keep other family members to enable them to eat (when they can find food to buy....???)

Regardless of what troubles we native born Americans may grouse about..., just be thankful you were born here!!!

[Big Red Badger]

They Want it...
They Gits It!

[blueunicorn6]

The communist leaders are doing just fine.

Hungry people are easier to control.

[FreedomPoster]

I’ve confronted Leftist with Venezuela as the natural end state of Socialism. They poo-pah it, say it can’t happen here.

[Chickensoup]

they have money enough to embalm but not enough to feed the kid?

[Vinnie]

Chavez nationalized the American, foreign oil companies assets and drove out the foreign engineers that knew what they were doing.
Been downhill ever since.

[Billyv]

A true example of a country gone Galt.

[Bigg Red]

Trump’s fault, of course.

[eyeamok]

All Venezuela needs is a couple hundred thousand of our super smart, tolerant, equality loving University Students to go over there and show them how great socialism is

[grundle]

This is so sad.

Communism sucks.

[rlmorel]

Excellent video by Bill Whittle (about 4 minutes):

Socialism is for Suckers: Venezuela