[SaxxonWoods]

I feel sorry for these people. I know many will say it’s their own fault but I don’t buy that at all.

[Beowulf9]

I do too. People under Communism or Socialism are just forced to live by those systems.

[Lurker]

“I know many will say it’s their own fault but I don’t buy that at all.”

You should. They voted for it. Now they’re getting it.

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[abb]

When you don’t have guns and can’t fight back, it’s what happens.

[BipolarBob]

I know many will say it’s their own fault but I don’t buy that at all.

I'm with you 100%. I hear people mocking them and it makes me sick. Starvation is not funny.

[rdcbn]

I feel sorry for these people. I know many will say it’s their own fault but I don’t buy that at all.

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I don't have the slightest sympathy

Back when gas prices were in the stratosphere and Hugo Chavez was able steal enough of other peoples money to buy votes, these guys were in the Chavista street battalions clubbing into a bloody pulp anyone who dared oppose Hugo Chavez and they cheered when Hugo humbled the “wealthy” professional class that kept the economy running.

Now they have run out of other people's money to steal and the once wealthy Venezuelan economy has been driven into the ground is literally grinding to a halt

People vigorously opposed Chavez when it could have made a difference but the Chavistas destroyed so much over the last 20 years things are so fun down that the Germans in post war Germany were better placed to rebuild

The Chavez and Maduro governments were so incredibly abusive to their capitalist neighbors that their foreign business partners abandoned their capability to refine the low quality, difficult to refine thick, high sulfur crude oil that Venezuela has in such huge reserves. Venezuela cannot even refine their own crude oil so it's of little value in today's fracking oil economy

Absent an American led Equivalent of the Marshall Plan, Venezuela is going to keep going further and further into collapse it has willfully defaulted on its debt, burned its bridges with the world economic community so as to have no access to foreign capitol, its industrial infrastructure is obsolete and completely worn out and it has destroyed the value of its single most exportable commodity, hi sulfur crude oil, because its hostility has forced the few (mostly American) refineries that could refine its oil products to retool their refineries for other grades of crude oil and abandon their capability to refine Venezuelan crude.

Venezuela can do little but act as a warning to others to avoid going down the same Marxist path Venezuela went

[metmom]

I feel sorry for these people. I know many will say it’s their own fault but I don’t buy that at all.

When a corrupt and immoral government seizes military control of a country, there's precious little the average person can do to stop it.

I hear that all the time living in the state of NY and many people, of callous heart, blame EVERYONE in the state for the condition it's in.

I'm sure it makes them feel all smug and superior to everyone else, but is really very indicative of the moral bankruptcy of a person's heart to make those kinds of broad brush statements.

I can see where it also makes them feel they can absolve themselves of any need to show mercy and compassion on those suffering under circumstances beyond their control.

[thecodont]

http://www.meatlessmonday.com/about-us/

“Meatless Monday is a global movement with a simple message: Once a week, cut the meat.”

They’re just doing their part. /sarc

[rrrod]

I’m in Colombia now and there’s an estmated 2 million refugees from Venezuela here....most are allowed to work and go about their lives in peace. When asked about the problems they will say it’s the older generation that voted for Chaves. They brought this on themselves.

[4yearlurker]

It’s like Bernie supporters bringing us down with them.

[Salvavida]

So you are saying you have no life experience living in Latin American countries? They own this. All of it. They were shown the benefits of capitalism by having one of the best economies in Latin American, and rejected it.

Unfortunately, they won't learn from it. Such is the latino mind. Now they are bringing it here.

[MichaelCorleone]

“I feel sorry for these people. I know many will say it’s their own fault but I don’t buy that at all.”

I agree.

Also, seems that quite a bit of food we sent to PR went undistributed due to their own corrupt political leaders. Some of it should have been diverted to Venezuela.

The cause was just as noble.

[Mark was here]

Do you believe decision makers, should not be responsible for their decisions?

[OneVike]

They elected the idiots that moved them farther and farther left. The exact same thing the college and high-school kids will do in the USA one day. Vote for Socialism today, and tomorrow the government will be a totalitarian nightmare like Venezuela.

I do blame them. How stupid one must be to think that taking from the rich will last very long.