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Venezuela Is Collapsing and the Left Is Afraid to Admit Why
CNSNEWS.COM ^ | 02 JUNE 2016 | DANIEL MITCHELL

Posted on 08/19/2016 6:03:42 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

I feel sorry for the Venezuelan people, but I’m perversely glad that the country is collapsing.

That’s because it’s nice to have proof that Margaret Thatcher was right when she famously warned that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.

To be sure, we already had proof from Greece, France, the Soviet Union, Brazil, and many other places. But it’s still nice to have another piece of evidence that big government eventually produces very dire results.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
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To: rbg81

Ask them about the Muzzie problem. And if they want Sharia.


21 posted on 08/19/2016 6:34:57 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<<a<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; DarthVader

Hillary dispatched Bernie (and it appears that Bernie was in on it)
Hillary is decomposing right in front of everyone... and Bill may be ahead of her
Venezuela is self destructing
The “Imperial Anus” (HT DarthVader) 0bama has had to admit he Lied about 400 Million for Hostages Payment
Hillary cannot escape any Grand Jury or Congress Investigation pointed at her
muslims continue to slaughter anyone Not muslim all over the World ... The Royal Anus (Obama) is Financing the Slaughter with OUR MONEY! and not to forget... the worst of the worst being released from Guantanamo.
Both he and Hillary want to bring more of these murderers into our Country, and pay for their upkeep.
ETC ETC ETC
And yet we have a media that is so blind or paid for that they cannot report anything factual about anything happening on this entire Planet unless it is some little NO-Story anti-trump rant.
My God we are are a Stupid Gutless Nation!
Osama was right ... it was the right time to attack and Obama Proved it ... TWICE


22 posted on 08/19/2016 6:41:32 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Socialism is NOT about equality. It is actually predicated on exactly the opposite principle. Socialism is the political system that creates a dichotomy between demigods and the supposedly homogeneous masses. It is the ultimate ego trip for those with Messiah complexes. Marx was an arrogant a***ole who wanted to diminish everyone else (i.e. the ‘Bourgeoisie’) that he resented. The language of his writings exuded anger and bitterness, and IMHO he was a narcissist angry at the world because it didn’t recognize how ‘great’ he was.


23 posted on 08/19/2016 6:43:08 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: TexasTransplant

Posted that last little Rant to the wrong thread ...

spose it still works


24 posted on 08/19/2016 6:43:46 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

.........wow, I like the one about government offices only open 2 days a week!


25 posted on 08/19/2016 6:47:09 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: rbg81

But you can reply back, “why does collectivism fail every time it is tried, but every time free enterprise capitalism and private property is tried it succeeds?”


26 posted on 08/19/2016 6:58:12 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

That Just makes My Day ,
Sunshine!
Thank You!


27 posted on 08/19/2016 6:59:29 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Agreed. BUT - it’s taking them a very long time to steal ALL of our wealth - and there’s still time to turn this ship around.

Not MUCH time, but some. ;)


28 posted on 08/19/2016 7:00:32 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

Saw a statement once that Marx had a couple dozen
volumes of his writings stored in the Kremlin that they
will never release. If so, there must be some really
embarassing stuff for his Red worshippers.


29 posted on 08/19/2016 7:01:57 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Big Red Badger

:)


30 posted on 08/19/2016 7:02:05 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Socialism will work when.a 400 pound mother of 12 can decently wear size 00 yoga pants. In other words, never.


31 posted on 08/19/2016 7:06:41 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: SkyDancer

The left will never admit they’re wrong even if you have to eat sewage. It’s always somebody’s else fault.


32 posted on 08/19/2016 7:15:43 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Rockpile

Marx was a narcissistic jerk, on a good day, when the sun was shining. I’ve met my share of unintellectual ‘intellectuals’ in my life who think that by embracing Marx they are somehow avant garde and intellectually advanced and fashionable. The reality is that they are truly idiotic. I mean, pathetically stupid.


33 posted on 08/19/2016 7:16:44 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

What a wonderful post. Thank you, it gives me hope...


34 posted on 08/19/2016 7:24:01 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: rbg81

Sweden is a case study of a total disaster if I understand what is happening there right now.


35 posted on 08/19/2016 7:25:14 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob

:)


36 posted on 08/19/2016 7:28:03 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Democrat_media

Socialists stay employed because they are always busy destroying everything else.


37 posted on 08/19/2016 7:30:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

You are so right. God Bless America, and do you know why we are the land of the free? I think it’s because we have never had a dictator or a king (who is a dictator by another name.) I pray that we can continue this form of government, after what we’ve been through in the last 8 years. I think we are the only country who can claim that, but someone will always try to become our king or dictator.


38 posted on 08/19/2016 7:31:08 PM PDT by MondoQueen
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I feel really sorry for them, and especially those who didn’t vote for Hugo Chavez & company. But, sadly, too many of them did vote for this.

They’ll be coming here. Then they’ll eventually get U.S. citizenship, and start voting for the same policies.

Trump can’t get into office soon enough.


39 posted on 08/19/2016 8:24:11 PM PDT by HarborSentry
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This situation, along with the increasingly likely chance of a political meltdown in Nigeria, explains why I think there is a chance we could see US$85-plus per barrel pricing for crude oil, because the collapse of Venezuela and Nigeria could eliminate over 4 million barrels of oil export per day out of world markets. I could see the price of 87 pump octane (91 RON) unleaded gasoline go from $2.25/US gallon to $3.50/US gallon (or higher!) in a blink of an eye in Sacramento, CA if this happens.


40 posted on 08/19/2016 8:28:00 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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