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New York Times Reporter Uses Takeout Food Excuse to Explain Venezuela Economic Collapse
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| July 4, 2016
| P.J. Gladnick
Posted on 07/04/2016 4:39:40 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
There is no consumerism in a socialism. There are no products to consume.
To: HiTech RedNeck
No. Essential supplies are literally, and lethally, inadequate. It’s not that they’ve forgotten how to cook it’s that there is nothing to cook, no way to obtain it, and evil men with guns will threaten or actually kill them to take any food obtained.
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posted on
07/04/2016 5:48:57 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
("Get the he11 out of my way!" - John Galt)
To: ctdonath2
We’re talking about the bigger picture, in which the people gave the nod to this evil regime because it was serving up their bread and circuses.
And now that its inefficiency has made everything scarce, why of course it is going to look out for itself first. However even yet they are not a total omni-police. The people are in a stupor and in psychological enslavement to it. In longer term communistic situations like Russia, the people learned various coping mechanisms.
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posted on
07/04/2016 6:03:57 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: ctdonath2
If the waste would stop, the inadequacy would probably cure itself rather quickly.
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posted on
07/04/2016 6:05:40 PM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
To: Robert DeLong
Why isn’t supply greater? Because resources are going to waste, not enough economic input to them to keep them going.
We can go deeper than the immediate picture of supply.
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posted on
07/04/2016 6:14:47 PM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
All of the mechanism’s of distribution have been crippled by nationalization.
To: PJ-Comix
Surprising that they even mentioned Venezuela ... they’ve been avoiding it like honesty, morals and ethics in the Democratic Party.
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posted on
07/04/2016 6:16:00 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
To: Robert DeLong
Well yes, it is a situation of choking, by government busybodies who claim to know better.
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posted on
07/04/2016 6:16:07 PM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: RetiredTexasVet
Evil has a hard time (actually finds it impossible) to be completely evil.
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07/04/2016 6:17:24 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: freedomwinsout
Who knows. This sounds a bit desperate on their part.
The leftists ARE the biggest part of the problem in Venezuela, with the way they have choked the whatsis out of the living creature that was Venezuela. There is a part the people have played in accepting this, but only a part.
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posted on
07/04/2016 6:25:10 PM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: PJ-Comix
The problem is most likely due to Chinese takeout. Everyone know when you eat Chinese food, you’re hungry again in an hour.
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posted on
07/04/2016 6:50:40 PM PDT
by
Newtoidaho
(Sprinkles are for winners.)
To: Newtoidaho
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posted on
07/04/2016 6:57:30 PM PDT
by
bankwalker
(Does a fish know that it's wet?)
To: HiTech RedNeck
At this point there’s nothing to waste.
Except human lives, which will cure itself rather quickly.
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posted on
07/04/2016 7:27:53 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
("Get the he11 out of my way!" - John Galt)
To: Tzimisce
“I would have blamed racism and George Bush if I had been this reporter.”
Can’t be racism. Racism only affects mexicans. Mexicans and Venezuelans aren’t the same thing? Right?
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posted on
07/04/2016 7:52:06 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: PJ-Comix
Nominate that man for 2016 Walter Duranty Award.
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posted on
07/04/2016 8:08:44 PM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: The Great RJ
Cooking anything at home in Venezuela is almost impossible when store shelves are bare of even rice, milk, beans and toilet paper Yeah, I make a mean toilet paper stew. Hmmmmm....
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07/04/2016 8:38:40 PM PDT
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super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting , knitting, always knitting)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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posted on
07/05/2016 7:53:17 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: PJ-Comix
He wrote the article based on what he was reading/watching.What is going on in a place like Venezuela would look horrifying.....
There is going to be enormous turmoil going on in this country,if not the whole region around it.
It would look like the collapse of Yugoslavia,or any other communist/socialist hellhole.
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