Posted on 05/28/2017 4:53:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
With all of the unrest, riots and murders in Venezuela these days, it’s easy to overlook one very basic question about the abysmal conditions its citizens are enduring. Venezuela has some of the richest farmland in the western hemisphere and was a net exporter of agricultural products until very recently. How can the people be starving? That’s the question being tackled at the Washington Post this week and the answer comes down to a single source: it’s the socialism, stupid.
At a time of empty supermarkets and spreading hunger, the country’s farms are producing less and less, not more, making the caloric deficit even worse.The case of Escobar’s chicken farm is only one of thousands of such examples, but it’s an excellent one to describe the problems the farmers are facing. He had a ranch with nearly a quarter million hens in a country where people are starving to death. That would mean the opportunity of a lifetime in any free portion of the world. But the socialist regime in Venezuela has taken charge of every aspect of the food production and distribution supply chain. They determine how much Escobar will be paid for his eggs and it turns out to be a net loss for him rather than a profit. Unable to buy sufficient amounts of feed and new chicks to raise, Escobar’s farm is withering and will soon be gone.Drive around the countryside outside the capital, Caracas, and there’s everything a farmer needs: fertile land, water, sunshine and gasoline at 4 cents a gallon, cheapest in the world. Yet somehow families here are just as scrawny-looking as the city-dwelling Venezuelans waiting in bread lines or picking through garbage for scraps.
Having attempted for years to defy conventional economics, the country now faces a painful reckoning with basic arithmetic.
“Last year I had 200,000 hens,” said Saulo Escobar, who runs a poultry and hog farm here in the state of Aragua, an hour outside Caracas. “Now I have 70,000.”
Lack of water is quicker than famine.
Cut off the electricity to limit the diaspora. Electric pumps are the primary vector for fuel and water distribution. The fuel may well run short before water gains critical attention. Gangs will likely monopolize resources making possible any excursions.
Watch Venezuela, that is what the NWO types policies always lead to. I read recently, that many of the military are beginning to side with the people.
I still remember reading how Russia took all the grain away from the farmers and let them starve to death, so you can be sure that when commies want to use food as a weapon, they will.
Together we can!
It takes a village!
The Founders made their views on Democracy clear, as is evidenced by this quote from John Adams.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams
This constant talk of "Democracy" from the fake news imbecile propagandists and communist politicians is nauseating.
The march towards communism begins with democracy, and the example of Venezuela will surely be repeated here in the USA unless steps are taken to disenfranchise the parasite class.
Will Trump be the beginning of the turning of the tide or a footnote?
Even Hitler was a able to make a rational case for the danger of democracy, universal suffrage, and its ultimate degeneration into Bolshevism.
“...democracy will in practice lead to the destruction of a people’s true values. And this also serves to explain how it is that people with a great past from the time when they surrender themselves to the unlimited, democratic rule of the masses slowly lose their former position; for the outstanding achievements of individuals...are now rendered practically ineffective through the oppression of mere numbers.”
“Democracy is the canal through which bolshevism lets its poisons flow into the separate countries and lets work there long enough for these infections to lead to a crippling of intelligence and of the force of resistance.”
“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”
I am confident that President Trump WILL turn the tide!
Against both Islam and Communism.
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