Posted on 05/13/2016 4:11:05 PM PDT by Lorianne
This is what happens when you mix hyper-inflation, price controls, and totlaitarianism.
Pan Am Post reports:
Ramón Muchacho, Mayor of Chacao in Caracas, said the streets of the capital of Venezuela are filled with people killing animals for food. Through Twitter, Muchacho reported that in Venezuela, it is a “painful reality” that people “hunt cats, dogs and pigeons” to ease their hunger... The population’s desperation has begun to show, with looting and robberies for food increasing all the time. This Sunday, May 1, six Venezuelan military officials were arrested for stealing goats to ease their hunger, as there was no food at the Fort Manaure military base... .Supermarkets are registered into a system in such a way that they are not permitted to sell Venezuelans food 15 days since their purchase of the same product. As a result, long food lines have formed all over the country, with many people reselling their share to earn an “extra income.” -RW
Dear Bernie,
That democratic socialism works pretty darned well, doesn’t it!
Mark
Ft. Manure?
Korean restaurants in that country will be doing good.
Lacking other means of expression I’ll bet they start writing blogs.
Because when you are subject to eating garbage and sleeping in the
gutter, blogging is the first and most obvious option. Yep. Blogging.
Ain’t socialism great? Now everyone is hungry. Except for the ruling class and those with political connections.
Most famine in the world is not caused by droughts and other natural conditions, most famines these days are caused by Totalitarian regimes.
Drat, they put the wrong Communists in charge, ...again.
If only they'd pick the correct Communists they'd achieve that Utopia of equality they promised.
Oh well, back to the drawing board Concentration Camps.
How come Hollywood leftists like Danny Glover and Sean Penn aren’t helping the people? They were friends with Chavez.
Sean Penn’s in hiding from El Chapo’s mob.
Every college professor in the US should be forced to do a yearlong sabbatical in Venezuela.
“People always have the kind of government they want. When they want change, they must change it.” - A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapon Shops Of Isher.
People of Venezuela wanted socialism. Now they got it....
In fairness to Sean Penn, he’s probably best advised to keep a low profile these days since he (unwittingly) aided the capture of El Chapo.
Why is this not on national news? World news?
Also: It’s reminiscent of Paris in the 1860’s where people would line up at a sewer to catch rats to eat; one person gets their rat and leaves and the line moved up.
As a result, long food lines have formed all over the country, with many people reselling their share to earn an “extra income.”
You got to know that won’t last too long.
During the 900 day siege of Leningrad, in the beginning people kept favored pets....but only for a while.
I find it very hard to believe how much the Venezuelans are willing to suffer while holding fast to an ideology that is literally killing them!
Common sense says they’d reach a point of suffering enough to throw off the evil system that has enslaved them - but this just shows how incredibly deceptive and gripping socialism and communism are.........
Soon to be manifest here........if Hitlery is put in office........electing Obama twice was borderline suicidal - but electing Hitlery will definitely be so.......still stunned that apparently half our citizens want her......that alone says we’re most likely beyond recovery........apart from divine intervention......
Bernie’s vision for America.
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