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The Maduro diet: How most Venezuelans lost an average of 19 pounds in 2016, plus another 24 pounds in 2017:

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1 posted on 11/27/2022 9:53:32 AM PST by grundle
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These people are INSANE. Government owning food production/distribution?

My wife was born in Czechoslovakia in 1952. USSR got them in what, 1956? and then invaded in 1968.

She grew up thinking bananas had brown spots all over the skin and that the inside banana was brown, gooey and mushy. THIS is what we would get eventually from this stinking government entrenching itself today.

Eventually it gets to the point where when the government pretends to pay their workers and the workers pretend to work.


61 posted on 11/27/2022 10:57:08 AM PST by Gaffer
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let them wi their hands out, eat ze bugs... the rest of us will eat steak


62 posted on 11/27/2022 10:59:06 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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If the government owned the means of food distribution, we’d all starve in a few months.


64 posted on 11/27/2022 11:01:08 AM PST by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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“Open-to-all” government cafeterias, wow, really evokes positive imagery. Eventually all you’ll get is cold gruel, and you’ll have to wait in line with bums and drug addicts.


65 posted on 11/27/2022 11:02:29 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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On the collective farms meals are served in cafeterias. Also in the GULAG. This is Collectivism writ large.


67 posted on 11/27/2022 11:23:28 AM PST by arthurus (covfefe ."|")
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Sometimes I read that Christianity is Socialism. Nothing could be further from the truth. Christians believe in voluntarily sharing what they own out of kindness. With Socialism no one owns anything and the government involuntary takes from some to give to others.

This is actually happening more and more today via taxes. As countries in the past have moved from Socialism to communism, this transfer of wealth happens via legal and physical force.


68 posted on 11/27/2022 11:53:29 AM PST by Freee-dame
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Yeah Chloe, you must be one of my DOGS!

My dogs are the ONLY entities that I know that get FREE HOUSING, FREE FOOD, FREE MEDICAL CARE, FREE TREATS, FREE TRANSPORTATION, PAY NO BILLS, ARE NOT REQUIRED TO WORK, they only bark, whine and say gimme more!

So come on down here Chloe and curl up at my feet so I can scratch you behind your ears!


70 posted on 11/27/2022 12:01:36 PM PST by 5th MEB
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That’s Communism,and it never works.🙄


74 posted on 11/27/2022 1:01:30 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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The same government that won’t answer my phone calls to their IRS about a refund they were sending me in 2-4 weeks... in July! Still not received. After you listen to their pitch to use their website then their automated “Push 3 if you want to pay your penalty. Push 4 if you want to pay this. Push 5 if you agree to the penalty we’ve assessed you...”

Then when you finally get to the actually phone ringing sound it answers and tells you they are too busy and won’t be answering their phone - please call back another time! Which I’ve done a dozen or more times!

Or the nice lady at the local SS office who couldn’t answer my basic question about a confusing letter I received. But assured me someone would be calling me to clarify it in 1-2 days. This was 10-12 days ago...

THAT GOVERNMENT you want to rely on for your FOOD!?!?!?

Fine if you’re the president or other high ranking bureaucrat. If you’re a peon or pawn figure on starving. Our government IS not reliable OR responsive to its citizens.


75 posted on 11/27/2022 1:03:06 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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How can people be so stupid as to give over control of their lives to a central force? Systems fail, and massive systems fail massively. They can also control or deprive massively.


76 posted on 11/27/2022 3:07:53 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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Another Los Angeles Times utopian socialism wish list.


77 posted on 11/27/2022 3:13:11 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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That would be the end of the age of abundance.


79 posted on 11/27/2022 3:32:40 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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Chloe forgot to include the anti-social parasite laws and the gulags needed to provide “free” food.


80 posted on 11/27/2022 3:39:43 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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Saw just a couple minutes of Kristi Noem on Bartiromo’s program today; China is buying up or leasing millions of acres of farm land AND fertilizer and food companies, amongst other things. THAT’S how you design a famine for us, the most, heretofore, productive land in the world.


81 posted on 11/27/2022 4:16:21 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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83 posted on 11/27/2022 7:44:13 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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