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Venezuela’s Food Chain Is Breaking, and Millions Go Hungry
Wall Street Journal ^ | 10/01/20 | John Otis

Posted on 10/03/2020 4:12:08 AM PDT by Libloather

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To: Libloather
Send AOC and Bernie down on an advisory mission. They'll know what to do.

They could start by shooting some wreckers. That's a well tested strategy.

21 posted on 10/03/2020 4:57:55 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: PIF

A Venezuelan friend I’ve known for years sends hundreds of dollars per month down there so that family members can buy food on the black market. The salaries have been demolished by hyperinflation, such that there is absolutely no middle class, and no possibility of supporting a family without outside help. It is impossible to describe in words how shockingly deprived all the people are there...EXCEPT the Chavistas and their wealthy allies in Caracas.

As I understand it, a significant majority of the Venezuelans who are now citizens here will be voting Trump.


22 posted on 10/03/2020 4:58:41 AM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: Libloather

“The socialist dictator Maduro should win reelection.”

I do not know whether your comment is satire or a sincere prediction.

Our own Venezuelan test comes Nov 3rd. This is where we can clearly see what portion of our country is so stupid as to want to be just like Venezuela. People voting for their own doom.

Our very own commies want to take away our fossil fuels, which power our farming equipment and get the produce to the stores. Gee, seems like I read where that is already happening someplace else? /s/

And governor Screwsome of CA wants all cars electric by a certain date when they can’t even keep the lights on now. The sad part is people will actually vote for this.

Absolute madness.


23 posted on 10/03/2020 5:09:25 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: Lockbox

“But comrade there is equality, well except for the leaders who eat steak every night”

In case anyone has not seen it, there are 2 movies versions of “Animal Farm” available for free viewing on Youtube. The whole process of becoming communist is well documented there. Highly recommended.


24 posted on 10/03/2020 5:10:32 AM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

“because some dictator uses the word “equality.”

Winston Churchill is supposedly quoted as saying:

“Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth.

Socialism is the equal distribution of misery.

Communism is socialism with a gun pointed at your head”


25 posted on 10/03/2020 5:13:13 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: SanchoP

“rotten cheese
There is such a thing?”

Yes, cheese can go bad and make you very sick. There was an incident some years ago on the west coast involving Mexican cheese.


26 posted on 10/03/2020 5:13:39 AM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: beef
Yes, cheese can go bad and make you very sick. There was an incident some years ago on the west coast involving Mexican cheese.

That's Nacho Cheese!

27 posted on 10/03/2020 5:14:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Texas Eagle

“ I wonder how many Venezuelans are on public assistance (subsistence). Are they all on the gravy train.”
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The gravy train has pretty much dried up. But, what little gravy that is still flowing, mainly from Cuba, goes to Maduro Goons, and he keeps the military content enough to not enact a coup. At least for now....


28 posted on 10/03/2020 5:19:33 AM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: Libloather

He will because he counts the votes.


29 posted on 10/03/2020 5:21:20 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where do you find the word "except" in the 2nd Amendment?)
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To: Libloather

The sausage is free...but we’re out...come back tomorrow.


30 posted on 10/03/2020 5:21:25 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Libloather

Hasn’t this been going on for years now?


31 posted on 10/03/2020 5:21:33 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: 2banana
then something happened...

Some communist people did some communist thing.

32 posted on 10/03/2020 5:25:19 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Vaquero

Maduro and his close friends and supporters are not starving. The elite in communist countries like like royalty.


33 posted on 10/03/2020 5:34:13 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Libloather

They are getting what they voted for. Let them starve.


34 posted on 10/03/2020 5:50:27 AM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico)
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To: Libloather

During the worst of the US Covid pandemic our food delivery systems almost collapsed.

They didn’t thanks to the tremendous leadership of one Donald Trump.

People forget that.


35 posted on 10/03/2020 6:19:53 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: Libloather

Soylent Green is not far away then ?


36 posted on 10/03/2020 6:52:02 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: sockmonkey

So, it’s the wests fault they can’t get organized.
Marxism is suppose to be the grand organizer so they do not need the big eeeevil capitalist pigs.... wasn’t that the first chapter of obamaonmics?


37 posted on 10/03/2020 7:15:35 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: jdsteel

“During the worst of the US Covid pandemic our food delivery systems almost collapsed.”

bullshit


38 posted on 10/03/2020 7:39:09 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Libloather

It is kinda late to get this guy Maduro out.

The Cuban Secret Service some 60,000 are doing a great job for Cuba but not for Venezuela.

The brother of Fidel Castro is still running things in Cuba and when Maduro was going to give up the Cubans told him to go back to Venezuela.

A good friend was sending suitcases of basic food stuffs and medical stuff to his Mom and other family members. The list consisted of things that we take for granted and it readily available in the U.S.

39 posted on 10/03/2020 7:43:49 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas..)
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To: Libloather
IS BREAKING? Where the hell has the WSJ been the last few years, in cryogenic sleep with Fry?
40 posted on 10/03/2020 8:17:11 AM PDT by Mastador1
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