Posted on 04/24/2017 8:27:24 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
That’s going to be some long and hard hand augering. I wonder if Arts Manufacturing and Supply will extend them credit?
I hope not, cause China is still red.
Not all that different than cr@p hole cities here.
Hopefully this doesn’t end the way Tiananmen ended. Better that it end with Maduro against the wall and gunned down much like Ceaucescu.
I suspect Trump’s position on this is “they got themselves into this mess...”
It really is a shame but such a wonderful lesson in the failures of Socialism it is too bad our Brown SHirt Media refuses to teach it. During my deployment to Panama in the 90s I knew a number of well off Panamanians who loved to go there on vacation “because it was the wealthiest country in South America and a fantastic place to shop”. Not kidding. In just 25 years look what Socialism can accomplish.
In The Art of War the aspiring general is advised to be meticulous in his preparation of the battlefield. Realizing that war is what happens when “politics by other means” has failed one can expect Venezuela to devolve soon into a state of war if not already. From decades of studying war from a primarily medical perspective one realizes quickly that one aspect of this preparation of the battlefield has to encompass the medical conditions. At this time the medical conditions in Venezuela are abysmal. I read the average Venezuelan has lost 17 pounds in the last year. This tells me malnutrition is rampant. People who are starving are going to put community hygiene very far down the list of priorities.
War in such conditions produces casualties from disease far in excess of combat casualties. The almost inevitable war brewing in Venezuela will kill thousands if not hundreds of thousands from Cholera and no asymmetry in technology will matter. Disease kills friends and foe.
When the population of Venezuela has been reduced sufficiently hostilities will cease. The only winner will be the grim reaper.
We would need a Constitutional Amendment to allow states to restrict the vote, since the 14th, 19th and 24th(?) Amendments pretty much took care of restricting it.
Restricting the vote to real property owners make sense, since they’re typically paying the whole enchilada (income, sales, and property taxes, in addition to various excises).
That and he has his hands more than full trying to pull America’s butt out of the fire. I hate to be callous but Venezuela is not a threat to us, not a trade partner and in our current national crisis is pretty darn low on the list of priorities.
And we could even reinstate that restriction and be *gag* gender-neutral about it. If you rent an apartment or own a house you get to vote, so long as you’re not on any kind of state or federal assistance. Simple as that.
Now we also desperately need to raise the voting age by at least 5 years with an exception for members of the armed services. But I can tell you right now that is gonna be one hell of an uphill battle because clueless college brats are one of the core Democrat voting classes. They will NOT stand idly by and lose them.
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