Posted on 06/16/2016 6:20:56 AM PDT by C19fan
Venezuela's super-rich are enjoying lavish parties and gourmet cuisine, while middle-class people are forced to scavenge for food as the Socialist country's economy collapses. In the opulent Caracas Country Club, where membership costs an astonishing £77,000 – 458 times the average Venezuelan salary – glamorous women in cocktail dresses were seen relishing a banquet of beef and lobster, followed by a colourful selection of puddings. Meanwhile, in the Petare slum a few miles away, home to 370,000 Venezuelans, ordinary middle-class people were rummaging in stinking piles of rubbish for rotten cabbage leaves, desiccated limes and scraps of fetid meat.
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Same as in the old Soviet era Russia and eastern Europe. Venuzuelans are living in a real Orwellian hell.
This is the future America’s Friends of the Revolution envision for themselves.
Ah, state of affairs and the affairs of state coming to a country club near you -— the now Bernified Democrat (Uniparty) Party!
Man! Venezuela sounds ripe for a REAL Revolution. I mean one that will make the French Revolution look like a Sunday School Ice Cream Social. Those wealthy folks best enjoy their lobster now...
A “let them eat cake” attitude. We all know where the last person to express that attitude ended up.
But Socialism is about egalitarianism! How could this possibly happen?! I guess the right people just weren’t in charge.
Sounds like they’ve achieved “full communism” (a term used by elites in the USSR to describe a period when all would be rich)
Maduro might want to take a glance at a photo of Mussolini’s final moments and ponder deeply...
What? I thought Socialism takes from the rich and gives to the poor. At least, that’s what Obozo is doing. You mean some of the leaders in Venezuela aren’t following the script?
Sounds like Obama’s vision for America.
Maybe there’s a second career for the jug eared Muslim down in Caracas.
For now. They are ripe for a revolution.
Maybe there’s a second career for the jug eared Muslim down in Caracas.
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He should take Hollywood there with him.
Venezuela has problems, there's no doubt. 100% self-inflicted.
But there are an awful lot of well-fed looking, "starving" people in those pictures. Reminded me of the media hysteria following Katrina, with 300lb welfare cases chanting "Help Us! Help Us!" into the news cameras .....because they missed lunch.
With this article, I think that it's more instructional to watch what the opportunists do - and how the media reacts to them - when society goes to hell in a handbasket.
Potentially coming soon, to a theater near you.
This is the plan Hillary and her billionaire contributors have for the USA.
You have been warned.
Just like our Limousine Liberals in d.c.!
How ... Hobbesian.
Exactly right. This is the end-point of socialism everywhere. Viva la revolucion! Camarero! Mas Dom Perignon!
Maybe Bernie could land a gig helping them get it right.
"Socialist Dream." That's the problem, lady. You had a bad dream.
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