But socialism works! We just have to give Obama a chance!
You’re just an evil capitalist pig!
The US media wants to blame Venezuela’s problems on the price of petroleum, which it is not.
The real culprit is Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship, but don’t tell the New York Times.
So what are you complaining about lady? I saw a bunch of dog food and puppy chow on the shelves. Eat some of that.
I guess when this happens in the US, we'll be hearing "I've always been an Obamista - I voted for him a bunch of times!"
"We have to keep him in Presidente."
The NYSlimes are also tacitly admitting that Venezuela’s entire lifeline normally are the proceeds of overpriced oil,
They should print more money, problem solved. This story will never be in the NYT or any other Marxist rag.
Pray America is waking
I would have long since gone back to cloth diapers. I’m old enough to remember them. I used to hang them in the sun to bleach out the stains. Right now I’m reading The Book Thief about a young girl in Nazi Germany. Lack of food was a constant issue. hmmm. I think I’ll go check the pantry. We’ve started making our own dog food so that has depleted some cans of stuff.
It continues to amaze me that people want more socialism. Yet, we see time and time again that it always ends the same way. The eventual collapse of the country subscribing to those policies: Venezuela, Greece, Argentina, USSR, Nicaragua, North Korea, etc.
It just never works.
What a mess!
Venezuela should have been one of the richest countries in all of South America just from its extensive oil reserves. But their zeal for a socialist state ruined everything, and it may take reforms like what happened in China in the early 1980’s to bring that country back.
There will be blood.
And not just in Venezuela.
Equal suffering and poverty for everyone except the elites. It’s the socialist way.
Have they tried a new Five Year Plan yet? How about doubling the number of firing squads to better incentivize the proletariat? That usually works too!
Somehow The Slimes overlooks the fact that ALL oil-producing countries are being affected by the same low oil prices, and yet it’s only Venezuelan that is imploding.
Have you seen the US is making a play for Petrocaribe’s customers?
Venezuela needs to sell that oil to others of course.
But what is more interesting IMO is that many of the countries owe fairly large amounts of debt under the deferred terms they have bought oil from Petrocaribe.
Comments closed. Must not have been going the way the Slimes wanted them to go.
That was fast. It seems it was only 10 years ago that Chavez was voted in, and the country is already in ruins.
Coming to a store near you, if the regime has its way...
The more people dependent on government, the more votes “they” get.
Ladies and gentlemen, they are checking IDs at the grocery stores in Venezuela to make sure you don’t exceed your ALLOWED ration.
“Comrade, do you hear the cry of the raven on the plains?
Comrade, do you hear the cry of your country in chains?”
Welcome to the promise of socialism.
I was down there in the late ‘80s, courtesy of a rent-a-rig company. Took a short flight from Caracas to Puerta La Cruz and flew over boondocks all the way.
I talked with one of the oil guys about that and he said that oil had ruined the country. ???
He said that when he first came down in the 40s, the locals were running around in burlap sacks that had holes cut in them for head and arms and lived on farms. Venezuela used to be self-sufficient in food, but that all went out the window when oil was discovered as people abandoned the farms and headed for the fields.
Even back then things were hard. We went to work at 5 a.m. every day and the first time I saw a large group of people milling around the camp entrance I got a little wall-eyed, thinking “protesters”. Not to worry - just people waiting to see if the could get a day job.
One of the guys was a dog lover and started buying hamburgers for the strays around the camp. He was told to stop, and I thought it was because of them crapping all over the place. The guy said no, it was because there were too many hungry people around and would get pretty ticked off seeing stray dogs fed while they were starving.
The one thing that hit me was not the wide disparity of rich and poor (no middle class), it was that no matter how poor people were, the rich tried to grind them down even further any way they could.
We had rigs out on Lake Maracaibo and worked out of Ciudad Ojeda. There was an American there who had a little ferry service, taking the crews out to the rigs. He said Venezuela was a Third World country even then and that they’d be Fourth World if things didn’t turn around. I always wondered at what point did he finally throw in the towel.