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To: SkyDancer

It would really show the world how evil socialism is if the US would start dropping food like we did after WWII. I can’t remember details of the WWII drop but we did it because the people were starving. Anything to bring attn to what socialism really is.


7 posted on 06/08/2016 6:10:11 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: ncpatriot

Was it the Marshall Plan that was doing it? But then, it wasn’t the people’s fault. It’s always the government. So maybe we can start dropping food packages into Venezuela. However the government there is blaming America for their problems. And also Bush.


9 posted on 06/08/2016 6:12:41 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: ncpatriot

The food drop you’re speaking off was towards the end of the war in Europe. After Bernard Montgomerys disastrous “Operation Market Garden’’ in Holland in Sept. 1944 , the Germans blockaded the entire country and starved the Dutch people. As it became clear Germany was going to lose the war the Allies appealed to the Germans to allow food drops to the Dutch populace to avoid a catastrophe and put the German occupiers in a better light. Te Germans allowed the Allied air forces to air drop food to the Dutch people .


17 posted on 06/08/2016 7:15:38 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: ncpatriot

“It would really show the world how evil socialism is if the US would start dropping food like we did after WWII”

Even better would be to drop pallets of machine guns and ammunition all over the country. That would solve the food problem quicker than any other solution.


19 posted on 06/08/2016 7:26:05 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: ncpatriot

My wife is taking care of a gal, she was born in Germany.

“So what caused you to come to America?”

“I was a child in West Berlin after the war. The boxes dropped with food had U.S.A. written on them. I told myself ‘I want to live THERE!’”


26 posted on 06/08/2016 9:33:12 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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