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NY Times: Venezuela’s Economic Devastation Comparable To Countries Destroyed By War
HotAir ^ | May 17, 2019 | JOHN SEXTON

Posted on 05/18/2019 7:09:31 AM PDT by FtrPilot

Democratic socialism is working in Venezuela. It’s working to make everyone miserable and hungry. The sign in the photo reads: “Maduro is hunger.” The NY Times reports the economic decline Venezuelans are now experiencing is unsurpassed in the past 45 years outside of countries in the midst of war:

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KEYWORDS: democratic; sanctions; socialism
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Venezuela is at war...a civil war. Unfortunately, only one side is armed.

If Venezuela's people had the Right to keep and bear arms, Maduro would be removed from power.

1 posted on 05/18/2019 7:09:31 AM PDT by FtrPilot
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And you can’t get rid of him because you don’t have guns or guts.


2 posted on 05/18/2019 7:10:50 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: FtrPilot

Another four years of Dummycrat rule with Hellary winning in 2016 and that would be us.


3 posted on 05/18/2019 7:11:32 AM PDT by WashingtonFire (We stand for God, For Country and for Trump)
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To: FtrPilot

Surprised that the NYT notices the total failure of Socialism in Venezuela. They have fawned over Fidel Castro’s rape of Cuba for decades.


4 posted on 05/18/2019 7:14:50 AM PDT by txrefugee
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And also consider that Uncle Walter was with the NYT all of those years as well.
5 posted on 05/18/2019 7:18:45 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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Venezuelans have the same natural rights as any Man—their government simply doesn’t recognize the fact.


6 posted on 05/18/2019 7:19:27 AM PDT by dinodino
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But then, Duranty spent most of the time in Moscow, which meant he never knew about the the forced famine in many parts of the USSR that mav have starved 14 million people to death.


7 posted on 05/18/2019 7:20:34 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: FtrPilot

It IS a war ... against common sense. Against God. Against the lessons of history. Against human nature.


8 posted on 05/18/2019 7:23:50 AM PDT by IronJack
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“Venezuelans have the same natural rights as any Man—their government simply doesn’t recognize the fact.”

A very cogent observation.

L


9 posted on 05/18/2019 7:25:40 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: FtrPilot

Feel the Bern!


10 posted on 05/18/2019 7:26:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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One interesting fact

I watched the demonstratis closely. I did not see any skinny people. My relatives that were alive and kicking during the Great Depression and WW II appeared lighter aand thinner than most of those demonstrating in Venezuela.

The same is true of the invading hoards

Hvving said that, I do not doubt the veracity of hunger in Venezuela


11 posted on 05/18/2019 7:28:29 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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Saw this thread, first thought was “Where’s the NYT’s Walter Duranty on this!”


12 posted on 05/18/2019 7:32:46 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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And it didn’t require anything but Communism!


13 posted on 05/18/2019 7:38:41 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: dinodino
Venezuelans have the same natural rights as any Man—their government simply doesn’t recognize the fact.

In 2012, Venezuela brought a new gun law into effect which bans the commercial sale of firearms and ammunition.

Until then, anyone with a gun permit could buy arms from a private company.

Under the new law, only the army, police and certain groups like security companies will be able to buy arms from the state-owned weapons manufacturer and importer.

"The ban is the latest attempt by the government to improve security and cut crime."

Venezuela shows what happens when citizens are disarmed. We must always be vigilant.

14 posted on 05/18/2019 7:48:21 AM PDT by FtrPilot
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California is quickly catching up to Venezuela on the slippery downslope. If California were not in a huge common market with the rest of the United States, it would have long ago been embargoed.

Attempted efforts to impose socialism anywhere end up either either a military dictatorship, or eternal civil unrest.

Sometimes both at once.


15 posted on 05/18/2019 8:03:47 AM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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Some sumbitch always wants to be the head mfwic.


16 posted on 05/18/2019 8:09:44 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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We need to send our SMART socialists down there to straighten things out!


17 posted on 05/18/2019 9:06:16 AM PDT by mowowie
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We need to send our SMART socialists down there to straighten things out!

That would be appropriate.

18 posted on 05/18/2019 9:23:21 AM PDT by FtrPilot
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Dr. Kenneth Ryker, in his Freedom in a Nutshell, wrote:
"The fundamental economic question to be answered in any society is "Who is to get how much of what?" The competing answers to that question are embodied in the ideological struggles in which we find ourselves engaged today.

There really are only three ways to answer this fundamental question. Dr. F. A. Harper analyzed these in his book, Liberty: A Path To Its Recovery, as follows:

1. Each person may have whatever he can grab.

2. Some person other than the one who produces the goods and services may decide who shall have the right of possession or use.

3. Each person may be allowed to have whatever he produces.

These three methods cover all the possibilities; there are no others.

The first is readily recognized as the law of the jungle; the second is that utilized by all authoritarian systems, while the third is the only method consistent with individual freedom.

"Who is to have how much of what?" That is the question. Communism has an answer, as does National Socialism and Fascism. The Fabians and Democratic Socialists think they have the answer. But when all these systems are analyzed, they come out the same, differing only in degree: The State will determine who is to get how much of what! This obviously means the economic questions will be answered by force and coercion.

But there is a better way: let the free market, willing exchange, profit and loss system determine what will be produced and in what quantity; who will produce it for what compensation; and who will receive it at what price.

There are really only two choices: to answer the economic questions by free choice — or by coercion!

(End of Quotation from "Freedom in a Nutshell," Kenneth Ryker.

Venezuelans need freedom: that's all they need in order to throw off the oppression, lack of individual opportunity and creativity, and the plenty that would result from that freedom. America stands as the greatest example of the ideas of liberty which has ever existed in the history of nations.

19 posted on 05/18/2019 10:12:35 AM PDT by loveliberty2 (`)
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"Look at us!  We're skinny as rails.  What's wrong
with you?  And you American bastards ... send
us your money!"
20 posted on 05/18/2019 10:53:15 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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