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Witnessing a ‘Complete Collapse of Society’ in Venezuela
TIME ^ | August 9, 2016 | by Olivier Laurent

Posted on 08/09/2016 2:29:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Publius

Thank you for the ping, Publius. Much appreciated. I was going to say, but on thinking it, it sounded too dismissive and you might think it rude, that I didn’t need to read the article. I thought you might interpret my comment negatively, as though I didn’t want to be pinged.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

But that was my first thought: I don’t even need to read it. I am not in the least bit curious. As other posters have said, it isn’t like we haven’t seen this kind of thing over and over and over again. We have read it in Atlas Shrugged. We have seen it in country over country throughout history. The power and money-hungry people in charge oppress people and appropriate more and more of the country’s wealth while suppressing the ability of people to make more via government intrusion, and piss away the stuff that they steal.

And still-STILL we get absolute IMBECILES world-wide who see this as though it just happened for the first time.

And the first thing out of their mouths is always: “They did it wrong.”

Unbelievable. “They did it wrong.”

Like so many liberal ideas, they build the edifice of their vision on a foundation of faulty premises, and the faulty premise of this is that it can be done at all. So we end up arguing with them about the details “They should have had a better system of setting and communicating prices”, “They made a mistake in analyzing the data”, or “The planning of projects was faulty”.

At this point, in the vision of what should happen, someone slaps them hard across the face and says: “Listen up. Socialism doesn’t work. It can’t work. It is corrupt from the inception, it is an a engine of graft and abuse with no redeeming aspects. It is MADE, no, DESIGNED to eat itself, but ONLY after eating everything and everyone else. Because when you determine what is fair compensation, there is always someone else to whom it isn’t fair. When a person determines how much another person should be able to earn, that person will always want more, and someone else is going to be jealous and envious because that person has MORE than they do. If you say you will give them more, they will WANT more.”

And then we snap back to reality, and the Leftist is still bleating that socialism is a good idea that is waiting for the right person...

If I sound angry, I am. We didn’t see this coming years or decades ago, we’ve seen it our whole life, it is stupid, cruel, and completely unnecessary. Good luck replacing that shattered hip with no anesthetic. Or being hungry enough to boil a leather shoe or belt and try to eat it. One thing I have learned from history, is that when people get hungry enough, they will try to eat nearly anything. Anything. From belts and shoes to other people.

And that, folks, is the final destination of socialism. Looking at an old boot, and wondering if there is anything nutritionally that can be gotten from it.

THAT is the essence of what socialism eventually comes to.


61 posted on 08/09/2016 6:00:52 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“I think the Bolivarian revolution is a lost opportunity for Latin America to change things that needed to be changed. It’s so sad to see how a true feeling of a society has failed so much. And it shows how dangerous populism can be.”


62 posted on 08/09/2016 6:04:18 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Pearls Before Swine
 
 
They're teetering on the edge of a re-imagining of 1975-era Cambodia. What's old is new again, and not in a good way.
 
 

63 posted on 08/09/2016 6:08:49 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That picture says it all.


64 posted on 08/09/2016 6:09:10 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

The best and brightest have found their way out of Venezuela over the past few decades (my wife worked with one 20+ years ago, who got out when the family saw the writing on the wall back then); the Creoles (Spanish-descended Latinos), as in Cuba, have largely abandoned the former colony to the people who lived there before as well as the descendants of the slaves brought over a century and a half ago. Spain is usually very accommodating in taking these people in when they can prove Spanish descent; better than importing Arabs or Incas...


65 posted on 08/09/2016 6:09:28 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
http://www.usdebtclock.org/


66 posted on 08/09/2016 6:10:51 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: blam

You’re right, the price collapse was huge, but nationalizing everything a few years earlier was also huge. They ran off every oil company and every supplier that was helping them pay for the welfare and put the welfare people in charge. Brilliant. Their revenues were falling before the price collapse, and expenses were rising. The perfect storm.


67 posted on 08/09/2016 6:20:35 PM PDT by MrKatykelly
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To: Rome2000

This is why American communists need to be neutralized with extreme prejudice, before they get so strong that they cannot be rooted out.

This election will be the last peaceful attempt to destroy these MF’s.

Trump or all bets are off.


Exactly right on all points!

No matter who wins in Nov., we’re going to see some SHTF.


68 posted on 08/09/2016 6:30:53 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Cheerio

Those who support socialist /liberals /progressives/ Marxists/ communists /democrats (but I repeat myself), may not like living on their knees, but they obviously love the taste.

It matters not whether one feels sorry for them. You can’t fix stupid.


69 posted on 08/09/2016 6:54:56 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

LMAO.


70 posted on 08/09/2016 7:15:19 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ahhh, the rewards of socialism.


71 posted on 08/09/2016 7:16:40 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

When it arrives for America, it will be much worse. The un-collapsed world can aid Venezuela. When collapse arrives here, there will be no source for aid and utter chaos will rule the times.


72 posted on 08/09/2016 7:39:49 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Coming to a country near you. Really.


73 posted on 08/09/2016 7:48:33 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: riri
"THIS IS what democracy, ultimately, looks like"

what is the alternative?...seriously..

74 posted on 08/09/2016 7:50:15 PM PDT by cherry
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To: unixfox

>>Never put all your eggs in one basket.<<

Now, if only there were eggs. And, what’s a basket?


75 posted on 08/09/2016 7:51:42 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Next comes revolution.


76 posted on 08/09/2016 7:56:03 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: hal ogen
"...and that dead commie a-hole’s daughter is worth several billion US dollars"

communism is and always has been about enriching certain people under the pretense of "spreading the wealth"....

the wealth is spread to the govt hackies....

77 posted on 08/09/2016 7:58:44 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

A constitutional Republic. BUT, if the sovereigns allow an oligarchy to push the law aside and ignore the Constitutional directions, then it is no longer a Constitutional Republic, kind of where America is now, under the criminal enterprise in power.


78 posted on 08/09/2016 8:07:12 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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To: blam
The oil price collapse didn’t help this situation either. Most of the Chavez social programs were supported by oil revenue.

Saudi did not collapse with falling oil revenues. They did not collapse because they are not socialists. It should be noted that Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world.

79 posted on 08/09/2016 9:00:34 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND ROUGHNECK MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN , CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Venezuela is a warning lesson. One of the things it teaches is that if you need to learn how to grow food that is not recognizable as food.

The other is that you need to keep something available for confiscation.

There are a number of plants that will not kill you but will make you extremely uncomfortable if eaten.

Keeping some of these on hand can be highly useful.

80 posted on 08/09/2016 9:32:15 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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