Things are starting to get bad in Venezuela, people eating their pets

Titties, get it right wrote:

Dwumpfling wrote:

[quote]haaaaaaaaaaaaaa wrote:

the red state takers that's suck the teet of NYC and SF liberal elite capitalists v.

At least us red state takers know it's a TEAT cause we have milked a couple of cows in our day.

Moran

The red staters are smart. They play the game they are dealt while trying to improve it. It's rather like having a good designated hitter in baseball while preferring the old game before the designated hitter.

I have a friend in Connecticut who votes for Democrats. He says it would be wise for voters to elect local Republicans (because they are tight with the local peoples' money) and Democrats at the Federal level (because they are all for snatching money from people in other states). He admits this is not sustainable given current trends.

I think this is actually to preclude emigration.

Chavez's daughter and the former treasurer still have their multi-billions in Swiss bank accounts I presume.

https://www.france24.com/en/20181005-venezuela-forms-immigration-police-strengthen-border-controls

anon. wrote:

Don't laugh people it could happen in the United States.

You're going to need the Americanized immigrants

to show you how to cook meat, it's in their primal

brains. Not yours

Love minus zero no limit.

When i'm elected i promise to turn the country into a socialist utopia!

Ill also get rid of punctuation.

Why aren't the pets eating their people?

...+...-xyz wrote:

I think this is actually to preclude emigration.

Chavez's daughter and the former treasurer still have their multi-billions in Swiss bank accounts I presume.

https://www.france24.com/en/20181005-venezuela-forms-immigration-police-strengthen-border-controls

Naw, they stashed it in nearby Panama

Read "The Panama Papers."

Ciro wrote:

Nobody is advocating following Venezuela's model, what people are suggesting is something more similar to Scandinavian countries. There is of course some balanced merit to that discussion, but right out of the gate you tilt it to the extreme.

I've lived half of my life in Europe and half in the US, there are pro's and con's.

As for conservative objection to socialism, how any different than bailing out banks, farmers, industry and corporations but I never hear the right complaining about that.

Well, then, open your ears and close your mouth for a bit because conservatives DO in fact complain about that.

Remember when the power was out in this capitalist country for 11 months and no one cared? At least Whitefish Power and Ryan Zinke got paid though.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/8/15/17692414/puerto-rico-power-electricity-restored-hurricane-maria

huh?????? wrote:

[quote]Ciro wrote:

To the OP why did bother dispelling a political stance that no-one supports to being with?

I see probably 4-5 posters already on one page that are admitting that they agree with the basic type of govt that Venezuela has. Fools do think Socialism can work and just hasn't been done "the right way" yet. I tend to think if something has been tried 100 times in various places throughout the globe and has never been successful (and often has led to mass genocide) then it can never work. But that's just me, I'm no wanna-be liberal elite know-it-all.[/quote

I agree with you 100 per. Was thinking same thing. Its scary isn't it. Such enemys of this country, why not go move and live there, in... say Venezuela...and stay there.

haaaaaaaaaaaaaa wrote:

She's a genius, she has all sorts of valuable life experience that dictates that she could do Socialism the "right way". I hope she relocates to Venezuela ASAP and becomes their leader to help them out. She could bring Bernie with her to be her grandfather/right-hand man.

Socialism has not made life tough in VEN, sanctions by US have caused severe harm. George W Bush tried to overthrow the left leaning government there. Bush was not successful. Bush Administration placed sanctions on VEN. The sanctions have broken VEN.

problem here has nothing to do with socialism or capitalism - Chavez just used a socialist revolution to install himself as Dictator, and Maduro just carried on the tradition. These guys (and many of the African dictators) make corruption in the US look like amateurs. They steadily line their pockets, plus those of their 10,000 or so buddies in military, police, government, and oil industry with all the proceeds of the country. No money goes back into maintenance of the oil machinery or the country's infrastructure. This process eventually just breaks the country down as nothing works any more - electric grid broken, cant pump out anymore oil, roads decrepit.

At last minute, Maduro will jet out to exile somewhere, and the people will rebuild the infrastructure with an international bailout, and then 25 years later will elect another dictator.

As someone above pointed out, South Africa is next on this list.