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'We want food!': Venezuela crisis deepens
www.globalpost.com ^ | May 18, 2016 | Staff

Posted on 05/18/2016 10:55:31 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 05/18/2016 10:55:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Oh boy!

ANOTHER successful social experiment!


2 posted on 05/18/2016 10:56:30 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: Red Badger

There’s never a Hugo Chavez around to lynch when you need one.


3 posted on 05/18/2016 10:57:21 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Red Badger

This is trending on all of the Facebook news feeds, and on Twitter, right? So that all of Bernie’s fans can see it.

NOT!!!!!


4 posted on 05/18/2016 11:00:22 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Red Badger
"The president however says he is fighting an "economic war" being waged by Venezuela's "fascist" right supported by the "imperialist" United States."

In the free world, we call this the free market. Yes, I'm enjoying my cheap(er) gas Venezuela. My advice to you, don't be a petro economy. Try the free markets and let your people produce something. The only thing Venezuela has exported in the last 15 years is oil and misery...
5 posted on 05/18/2016 11:00:53 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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I thought they produced oil...what is going on? If you have oil, then refine it and sell it, put your people to work, don’t expect the world to support you without doing anything...


6 posted on 05/18/2016 11:01:36 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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But now the people no longer want revolution -- what they want is food," she said.

Socialism at work.

7 posted on 05/18/2016 11:02:24 AM PDT by Canedawg (Make America Great Again)
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To: Red Badger

Well you voted for socialism, and you got it.


8 posted on 05/18/2016 11:03:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Yo-Yo

But Hugo will not even be denounced, he will be made a hero that could have “fixed’ the problems if he had lived. Once again, Marxist will deify another dead thug and talk about the glory days. Think Che, Stalin, Lenin, etc...


9 posted on 05/18/2016 11:05:04 AM PDT by fatez (Ya, well, you know, that's just your opinion man...)
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To: TMSuchman; Roos_Girl

Ping.


10 posted on 05/18/2016 11:05:21 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Red Badger

Just read the most depressing article in the New York Times - in the life-style Food section - about an ordinary woman in the worker’s paradise of Cuba hunting for food for dinner. Dented cans, frozen chicken parts in warm freezers, ground beef extended with soybean and one measly green pepper extolled by the lib reporter as wonderfully tasty compared to lousy American produce. In fact, the reporter was quite taken with Cubans obvious adoration of food due to the fact that they don’t have any. And an hilarious laugh at the ‘folklore’ that when the Soviet Union collapsed, all the pussy cats of Havana disappeared from the streets into the stew pots. Oh, yes, like that has never happened.


11 posted on 05/18/2016 11:05:53 AM PDT 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: Tilted Irish Kilt

Ping.


12 posted on 05/18/2016 11:06:09 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Red Badger
Somehow..., I suspect that a lot of food is "Lost" while the soldiers deliver it.....
13 posted on 05/18/2016 11:06:11 AM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: Red Badger

This could easily be us by next year. By next fall, even.


14 posted on 05/18/2016 11:06:22 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

I laugh at the venezuelans who are choking on their socialst s*** sammich. Hahahaaaaaa.


15 posted on 05/18/2016 11:06:43 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Red Badger

Not to make light of the situation down there, but most of those people in that photograph look fairly well-fed. I’m sure panic is setting in, but they don’t appear to be starving just yet. I wouldn’t want to be in their situation at all, though.


16 posted on 05/18/2016 11:06:53 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: HarleyLady27

When you steal all the profits and don’t pay your suppliers, then no one wants to sell you stuff or help make your refineries and production keep working.


17 posted on 05/18/2016 11:07:37 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Red Badger

It would be helpful for those of us who see these articles to post them to Facebook. Socialism in action. Permanent poverty.

Make them go viral.

The average income of Russians during the Soviet Union was very low. It peaked during Brezhnev’s time in office at 1/4 of US per capita income. Really bad performance for a country that size and with the rich resources Russia has available.

The 12 guys on the Politburo did fine, however, with summer homes and servants in the country. They thought everything was fine.


18 posted on 05/18/2016 11:08:54 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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Seventy percent of Venezuelans want a change of government, according to a poll by the firm Datanalisis.

Should've thought about that before voting for the socialists in the first place.

19 posted on 05/18/2016 11:10:08 AM PDT by dfwgator
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But now the people no longer want revolution -- what they want is food

You had food but wanted revolution. Which one is it?

20 posted on 05/18/2016 11:10:14 AM PDT by johniegrad
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