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Venezuela’s death spiral is getting worse
The Washington Post ^ | August 8, 2016 | Matt O'Brien

Posted on 08/10/2016 2:23:24 PM PDT by detective

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This is what socialism is like in real life.

The stupid people in the MSM praised Chavez and what he was doing.

They are clueless as to why it went wrong.

1 posted on 08/10/2016 2:23:24 PM PDT by detective
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The irony is... now that socialism has made things REALLY bad... the people will now demand MORE socialism to fix it!

This is exactly what happened during the great depression.

And the result would have been the total collapse of the US had WW2 not come along and bailed out FDR and made it appear socialism could work.


2 posted on 08/10/2016 2:25:47 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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Have hugo’s daughter provided any relief to the peasantry from her billions of $$$$ US?


3 posted on 08/10/2016 2:27:29 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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bkmk


4 posted on 08/10/2016 2:27:52 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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Circling the drain only lasts so long....


5 posted on 08/10/2016 2:28:13 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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It has tried to repeal the law of supply and demand”

Just like every Candidate we in the Media have supported especially and including Obama,Clinton, and Bernie. This is the Result of their Policies which were taken right out of the DNC Platform


6 posted on 08/10/2016 2:28:55 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: hal ogen

of course not! only the evil rich that vote for someone else are expected to pay taxes!


7 posted on 08/10/2016 2:30:03 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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I am shocked. The WAPO actually reporting on the disaster that is socialism. Our radical left will probably complain.

Interesting that I had to go all the way to the end of the article before they finally used the name “socialism”.


8 posted on 08/10/2016 2:31:04 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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Clinton’s first term


9 posted on 08/10/2016 2:31:44 PM PDT by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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All that free stuff is sure getting expensive.


10 posted on 08/10/2016 2:32:24 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Someone should make a kickass video of the misery there and turn it into a political ad with a caption like this is your country on socialism-Hillary’s America...


11 posted on 08/10/2016 2:33:42 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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A PSA to VOTE for Mr. Trump!


12 posted on 08/10/2016 2:35:14 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; stephenjohnbanker

If it got any worse, it would become Ethiopia.


13 posted on 08/10/2016 2:36:26 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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The end game of socialism is always the same. Slavery to the State.


14 posted on 08/10/2016 2:36:39 PM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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They just need to pass new laws.


15 posted on 08/10/2016 2:37:04 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Trying to guess the next step of this dance. A cosmetic change in government, perhaps, with Maduro going to ground in Monaco, and an application from the “new” government to the IMF for a nice, juicy cash injection. UN money, maybe. They don’t have anything left to steal inside the country.


16 posted on 08/10/2016 2:38:43 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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It’s already Ethi-Utopia. And it was entirely predictable.


17 posted on 08/10/2016 2:39:04 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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First comes the working in the fields.

Then comes the dying in the fields.


18 posted on 08/10/2016 2:43:50 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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The death spiral is done on purpose. Communists governments destroy their own people to ensure submission. Only the naive pretend they can’t see the problem. it is on purpose.


19 posted on 08/10/2016 2:46:15 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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No mention of socialism in Washington Post.

Why not? Bolivarian socialism is a catastrophic failure.


20 posted on 08/10/2016 2:54:44 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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