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Socialism Works: Venezuela Out of Food, Doctors Make $15 a Month and There's No Beer
Frontpage Mag ^ | 07/30/2015 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 07/30/2015 8:54:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Red Badger

Thank you for your kind words, FRiend.


61 posted on 07/30/2015 10:12:50 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Who can blame them for closing down?


62 posted on 07/30/2015 10:13:46 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: wally_bert

You are correct about that...Arkanicide and obamacide are happening as we speak.


63 posted on 07/30/2015 10:14:39 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

Pass them on.............................


64 posted on 07/30/2015 10:14:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: SeekAndFind
But using such absurdities in comedy sketches is getting harder amid a government clampdown on political satirists.

Just as the media here and in Europe will voluntarily clamp down on this story and refuse to air it.

65 posted on 07/30/2015 10:15:59 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump/Cruz '16)
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To: Red Badger

From Foster to Breitbart and Beyond.....

One or two coincidences, I’m sure, but enough deaths to be “suspicious”...


66 posted on 07/30/2015 10:24:17 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
"That's what they tell their people. And around half of them buy it."

During the Eisenhower admin vice-president Nixon took a diplomatic trip to Venezuela. He was spit on by angry crowds who mobbed his car.

There's been a very prominent leftist element in S. America for many decades telling the people all their problems are the fault of the wicked Yanquis. They probably believe it today.

67 posted on 07/30/2015 10:36:48 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s the lack of beer that scares me the most about socialism. Over in the Soviet Union, they had to dig potatoes out of the ground to make vodka. Even to this day, there are very few good Russian beers. I do not like vodka.


68 posted on 07/30/2015 10:45:09 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: knarf
I'm too lazy today to research THIS subject, but it seems to me that Venezuela was in the 80's and the 90's a pretty prosperous nation

Do I remember correctly ?

Yes, it was prosperous, by Latin American standards. I was there in Caracas and Merida six months before Hugo (may piss be upon him) took power. People there were friendly and very helpful to visitors, no matter where I went. I was very impressed. I still think about certain people I met there, and wonder how they are coping.

69 posted on 07/30/2015 10:51:35 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: left that other site

Especially after Wilson Ramos, Washington Nationals’ Catcher was briefly kidnapped in that socialists’ paradise


70 posted on 07/30/2015 10:58:39 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Democrat_media
Venezuela now is the USA in 10 years

It's going to take a LOT longer than 10 years for the USA to become Venezuela...

You severely underestimate the American people...

Venezuela has a long history of quasi-socialism or outright socialism, even though are are officially known as as Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela...

One man, Chavez, ruined the country, it took him 20 years with Cuban Fidel help...

The countries biggest problem has been brain drain, (1 million upper and middle class people left) anyone with one has left to escape Chavez and his minions

Atlas shrugged in slo mo..

At some point a new strongman will arise and throw the commies out...

71 posted on 07/30/2015 10:59:22 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: PROCON

I learned something today. Thanks.


72 posted on 07/30/2015 11:13:42 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t understand what is so hard about this.

They just need to pass laws to increase the amount of food, increase doctor pay and increase beer production.

Problem solved.


73 posted on 07/30/2015 11:18:12 AM PDT by nitzy (I don't vote for Republican'ts)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“And yet, like a moth to the flame, a large chunk of the US population votes for it because it gives them free stuff paid for by someone else, at least until the collapse.”

You know how the demonrats are always whining that the evil Republicans are “suppressing the vote”?

Maybe they should actually do that.


74 posted on 07/30/2015 11:36:24 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: left that other site

“Two of his close relatives, who were food producers in Venezuela had just been murdered by a bunch of government thugs who went right up to them on their farm, killed them, and took over.”

Yeah, I saw that on the front page of the Washington Post. (/s)

My condolences to your friend and his surviving relatives.


75 posted on 07/30/2015 11:39:17 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: M Kehoe

“Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried. I guess that’s not a clue to these people.”

Intellectual dishonesty is not merely the hallmark, the metier, the forte, the oeuvre of the liberal, it is the very sine qua non of liberalism. Compared to this, hypocrisy is a mere spear-carrier in the liberal’s limping army of sophistries, prevarication, and false moral equivalences.

The liberal himself somehow manages to suppress awareness of his own detachment from both reality and honesty, and in fact spends great volumes of energy swanning about in high dudgeon, gushing forth banshee wails of rage at the purported dishonesty and malice of his opponents. Spraying poison in all directions like a rabid cobra on meth, the liberal walks closed-minded through a world in which only he is open-minded, bigoted through a world in which only he is tolerant, ignorant through a world in which only he is educated, consumed by rage, hatred, and malice through a world in which only he is kind and nice.

All leftist thought, from the limousine liberalism of a George Clooney to the murderous horrors of Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot, is of and from Satan. Leftism is a contaminant in the human cognosphere, not a natural component of it.

Satan is smarter than we are, and he never sleeps. Those over whom he has the most influence are like maniacally evil energizer demons.

Every once in a while one of them escapes, as David Horowitz did, but who knows how or why?

Anyway, Satan knows that leftism is bad for humanity. That’s why he invented it, and that’s why he flim-flams those he can into trying to force it on us all.


76 posted on 07/30/2015 11:46:13 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc
Good post.

5.56mm

77 posted on 07/30/2015 11:59:51 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: SeekAndFind; All

“Under Mugabe, the price of an egg rose to 50 billion Zimbabwean dollars and a beer hit 150 billion dollars because Mugabe had the same idea of economics as Obama and Paul Krugman; just print more money.”

Is there anywhere on the net that shows what the true ‘cost’ of something should be in American dollars? I mean, we can’t be far off from the above, can we?

OK, maybe only 1 Billion for a beer at this point...but do you see what I mean?


78 posted on 07/30/2015 12:04:05 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
“Under Mugabe, the price of an egg rose to 50 billion Zimbabwean dollars and a beer hit 150 billion dollars because Mugabe had the same idea of economics as Obama and Paul Krugman; just print more money.”

Zimbabwe is the new Planet Algon....where an ordinary cup of drinking chocolate costs four million pounds,

79 posted on 07/30/2015 12:05:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Dr. Thorne

No BEER! Time for a Revolucion!


“When the revolution comes everyone will have peaches and cream!”

“But I don’t like peaches and cream!”

“When the revolution comes you WILL like peaches and cream!”


80 posted on 07/30/2015 12:08:26 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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