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Witnessing a ‘Complete Collapse of Society’ in Venezuela
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| August 9, 2016
| by Olivier Laurent
Posted on 08/09/2016 2:29:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
more like Witnessing the Culmination of Socialism...
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posted on
08/09/2016 3:21:51 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
08/09/2016 3:26:07 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: blam
The oil price collapse didn’t help this situation either. Most of the Chavez social programs were supported by oil revenue. The Saudi welfare state is also supported by oil revenues.
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posted on
08/09/2016 3:27:30 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: Secret Agent Man
I wonder what the (reported) unemployment rate is in Venezuela, it’s gotta be like 2-3% or lower now? Is that how things will be here in the US when ours gets that low under Hillary?
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posted on
08/09/2016 3:48:18 PM PDT
by
infool7
(The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
To: blam
Never put all your eggs in one basket.
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posted on
08/09/2016 3:55:45 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
...and that dead commie a-hole’s daughter is worth several billion US dollars.
46
posted on
08/09/2016 3:56:21 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
To: hal ogen
And were ten years behind them….
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posted on
08/09/2016 4:05:29 PM PDT
by
Hojczyk
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Witnessing a ‘Complete Collapse of Society’ in Venezuela
This is, of course, exactly what the left wants to happen here. Then they will restructure the USA in their wet dream of a Marxist society.
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posted on
08/09/2016 4:06:31 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; stephenjohnbanker; ...
Current President Nicholas Carudo is the worst President in years, even more autocratic than Hugo Chavez ever was. On top of everything else, Venezuela has endured a drought, the worst in years. Things are so bad, most animals in the Caracas zoo have starved. No one has ever seen anything like this. This could become a massive humanitarian crisis.
There are a lot of good people who opposed both Chavez and Carudo who are caught in this and they deserve our sympathy.
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posted on
08/09/2016 4:08:28 PM PDT
by
Clintonfatigued
(The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Send every American professor and journalist down there.
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posted on
08/09/2016 4:09:32 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Clintonfatigued; Oldeconomybuyer; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead
“There are a lot of good people who opposed both Chavez and Carudo who are caught in this and they deserve our sympathy.”
I am friends with one here in AZ who managed to get out.
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posted on
08/09/2016 4:11:17 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: Cheerio
“The taste of what is to come under another RAT regime.”
You must live in a friggin’ sh*thole if you’re expecting to wait in line for TP and eat your pets.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
08/09/2016 4:18:30 PM PDT
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Danny Glover could buy them quite a lot of medicine if he
would give back the 20 million dollars he stole from
Venezuela for the movie he was paid for and never delivered.
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posted on
08/09/2016 4:19:58 PM PDT
by
Rockpile
(GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
08/09/2016 4:55:53 PM PDT
by
aquila48
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Been saying that for years now.
To: rbg81
If you read the article, the writer is still very sympathetic to socialism in the face of incontrovertible evidence of it’s failure.
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posted on
08/09/2016 5:31:31 PM PDT
by
Ouderkirk
(To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
To: Ouderkirk
As the last line indicates, he blames the failure on “popularism”, not socialism (or Marxism).
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posted on
08/09/2016 5:33:06 PM PDT
by
rbg81
(Truth is stranger than fiction)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Looking at those two in the picture, the word that comes to my mind is where pork comes from. Both Communist pigs.
To: Augie; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
Prepper Ping list
" Venezuela is now a country in freefall" - Time.com
hat tip to DuncanWaring !
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posted on
08/09/2016 5:50:10 PM PDT
by
Tilted Irish Kilt
( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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