Posted on 05/31/2016 4:10:48 PM PDT by george76
Venezuela is running out of just about everything. Food, medicine, electricity, toilet paper, condoms -- you name it. ( Full title ).
And over the weekend at least two large international airlines -- Lufthansa and LATAM -- said they will suspend service to Venezuela in the coming months due to the economic crisis.
The widespread scarcities and fleeing businesses reflect a country in crisis.
"There's a shortage of everything at some level," says Ricardo Cusanno, vice president of Venezuela's Chamber of Commerce. Cusanno says 85% of companies in Venezuela have halted production to some extent.
Venezuela's economy is spiraling into extreme recession. It is ironic given that the country sits on the world's largest proven oil reserves of oil. However Venezuela hasn't cut back from expensive government spending even as oil prices have lost half its value in the past two years.
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Rolling blackouts in Venezuela.
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A health care crisis.
Venezuela lacks roughly 80% of the basic medical supplies needed to treat its population, according to the Pharmaceutical Federation of Venezuela. People are dying in hospitals for lack of sufficient medicines and equipment.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Venezuela has hot babes. The smart ones could rent themselves out to the US men tired of the female attitudes here in the US and both countries would benefit. Match.com would go bankrupt.
There he is, the leader of the FSA, the Free S#it Army.
The model the Bern will never mention.
Like believing you can fix a torn condom with a little chewing gum.
**** “Where is that complete moron Sean Penn and his Chavista-loving side kick Danny Glover on their glorious nirvana called Venezuela having a few socialista hiccups?” *****
Ask Them ... When they come out of Hiding
(Danny First, cause that POS rubs me Wrong on a couple 3 or 4 levels)
I LOVE Lonesome Dove ... then Danny had to go Stupid... Now I have to Fast Forward through anything or Part he plays.
Movie/Story still Works without him ... Just dang it I did like his character... What a AZZZ Hole.
My family immigrated from Poland and I’m dating a POlish woman. I went to visit the family last year and they all can’t believe how much Obama sounds like the sock puppets the soviets installed and how stupid many people are for believing socialism. They have stories how people who were allowed to leave would bring back a bag of peanuts they took from the airplanes. They would all share. Or the times the entire clan would share tiny slices of a banana that had managed to make it from Cuba.
Now the wonders of socialism won’t even get you a banana in a banana republic...
I worked down there in the late '80s and even then, if you wanted a case of beer, you'd also have to buy a case of the govt, brand in order to get it. Clever way of forcing you to do that. You didn't actually have to buy a govt. case, just turn in the empties in order to get a regular brand. (cough)
The leadership will remain well stocked. That’s how socialism works.
The productive people respond to this by leaving if they can. If they stay, they are forced to produce under the gun (literally).
That lasts at most about one generation, because the next generation figures out that it's not worth it to bother becoming productive. You can survive better by just mooching and saying what it takes to please your political overlords.
The US is far down this road already, and every liberal Democrat election victory brings it closer.
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