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Small problem: Socialist Venezuela has run out of food
Canada Free Press ^ | 02/19/16 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 02/19/2016 2:13:00 PM PST by Sean_Anthony

Oh, and the power's out, so they can't preserve what little is sitting around.

I’m sure the Bernie lovers will come up with a reason this is different and not the same, but every policy the Chavistas have put in place in Venezuela since the revolution has more or less tracked to what Bernie Sanders would do here - with one exception. At least Hugo Chavez and his hapless successor Nicolas Maduro believed in exploiting the country’s oil resources. It’s just that they used them to grease their own palms rather than meet the needs of their people, which is how we got to the point that one of the most oil-rich nations on Earth has no power. And no food. And no medicine. And no toilet paper, not that there’s anything available for you to eat and thus necessitate . . . OK, I’ll stop there:

According to figures published by newspaper El Tiempo, there is a shortage of 90% on staple goods such as flour, coffee, sugar, and meat, and 80% shortage in medicines.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; cuba; food; hellhole; hugochavez; hugochavezlegacy; nicaragua; power; russia; socialism; venezuela
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1 posted on 02/19/2016 2:13:00 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

Maybe they just need to crank up the socialism a notch or two?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHmTqoLjlXo


2 posted on 02/19/2016 2:15:45 PM PST by soycd
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To: Sean_Anthony

They need to call 1800 FRANCIS


3 posted on 02/19/2016 2:15:59 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump the lying RNC/GOPe Open Borders elite thugs! Say hell no to their candidates! Go TRUMP!)
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To: soycd

Obama’s plan for America.


4 posted on 02/19/2016 2:17:51 PM PST by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Venezuela hasn’t run out of food. Greedy capitalist swine stole all the food. It’s Bush’s fault. Global warming. Raise taxes and nationalize food production comrades. FORWARD!!!


5 posted on 02/19/2016 2:18:15 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Grampa Dave

dont tell the under 35 crowd in this country.

socialism is the COOLEST thing nowadays.

like i said, millions of fathers out there forgot to put millions of kids heads against a wall over the past 20 years.

if i spouted socialism in front of my pop, the only thing that would have beaten me the ER were the lights on the ambulance


6 posted on 02/19/2016 2:18:49 PM PST by dp0622
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To: Sean_Anthony

Save your powder, folks. Let’s work on allowing the college rubes to put the Bern over the top first!


7 posted on 02/19/2016 2:20:09 PM PST by jimmygrace
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To: Sean_Anthony

My biggest fear is it coming here.


8 posted on 02/19/2016 2:20:59 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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Well they ran out of toilet paper awhile back, so it’s probably a good thing the food has now run out. No input = no output.


9 posted on 02/19/2016 2:21:17 PM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: dp0622

“dont tell the under 35 crowd in this country. socialism is the COOLEST thing nowadays.”

It is until a few years later when they want promoted. Reality is a bitch.


10 posted on 02/19/2016 2:21:22 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Didn’t Hugo Chavez die with billions? How does that happen with “Fair Socialism”?


11 posted on 02/19/2016 2:21:25 PM PST by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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"According to figures published by newspaper El Tiempo, there is a shortage of 90% on staple goods such as flour, coffee, sugar, and meat, and 80% shortage in medicines."

It's true communism implemented correctly.

12 posted on 02/19/2016 2:22:51 PM PST by StormEye
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——like i said, millions of fathers out there forgot to put millions of kids heads against a wall over the past 20 years——

Please never procreate....no need to put your kids head up against the wall..

You teach them by example...


13 posted on 02/19/2016 2:24:03 PM PST by Popman
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To: Sean_Anthony
1. Run out of other people's money. Check

2. Run out of other people's food. Check.

3. Run out of other people?

Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go?
Timothy, Timothy, God why don't I know?

14 posted on 02/19/2016 2:29:40 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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Next there’ll be a government hit squad going door to door to confiscate food and other necessities to share with those that do not have as much. IOW socialism at its finest.


15 posted on 02/19/2016 2:32:12 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Sean_Anthony

Probably a lot of those socialists need to lose weight. So what if they run out of food?


16 posted on 02/19/2016 2:38:28 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Sean_Anthony

If old Bernie doesn’t win the Dem nomination he can always go back to writing hard core porn. Interesting that the media never asks him about his smelly background.


17 posted on 02/19/2016 2:39:18 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Sean_Anthony

Socialism: a political system for the systematically stupid.

Yeah, just allow total power and money into the hands of a few! What could go wrong?

Is it coming to America? It seems it’s a virus that hits everybody eventually.


18 posted on 02/19/2016 2:46:12 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: dp0622

You are so right. I could never have openly, vocally supported socialism in my parents’household. My parents weren’t college-educated or well-read or any of that, but they were blessed with an abundance of common sense in many areas including the political. And they certainly weren’t afraid of me, like so many parents today of their children. And they knew instinctively that holding hands and singing “Kumbaya” would solve nothing.


19 posted on 02/19/2016 2:47:10 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: Sean_Anthony

Obama’s America will rush to the rescue.

Propping up socialist regimes is in this phony’s DNA.


20 posted on 02/19/2016 2:47:16 PM PST by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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