Socialist paradise Venezuela on the verge of economic and social collapse

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No food. Rationed electricity. People dying because of poor healthcare.

If you like Venezuela, Feel The Bern!
 
No food. Rationed electricity. People dying because of poor healthcare.

If you like Venezuela, Feel The Bern!

A once beautiful nation has become a joke. Add to the list the fact that they can't even print anymore money because the company that prints their money has refused to print more because the government hasn't paid the printing bill.

And Maduro is trying to keep the natives restless by claiming that this is all a US plot.

Ishmael
 
You'd be happy there. Possession of small amounts of weed aren't against the law and they have a two day work week.
 
In 2013 the left wing rag Salon called Venezuela a socialist economic miracle.

Ummm...not so much.
 
A once beautiful nation has become a joke. Add to the list the fact that they can't even print anymore money because the company that prints their money has refused to print more because the government hasn't paid the printing bill.

And Maduro is trying to keep the natives restless by claiming that this is all a US plot.

Ishmael

They just don't have the right kind of socialism.
 
You'd be happy there. Possession of small amounts of weed aren't against the law and they have a two day work week.

Sounds lame.

I like large amounts and stacking money all week, not just two days.
 
Did they run out of oil or something?

LMAO. No, but Maduro, like Chavex before him, has been using PDVSA (the national oil company) as a jobs program for their supporters. Consequently they have one of the highest production costs of oil producing nation. They're pumping it alright,but they're losing their ass along the way.

Ishmael
 
Free healthcare and college for everyone!

You know what's frightening about that? The fact that there is a large group of his supporters out there that seem to believe he can make that happen without the consent of congress, which would be highly unlikely.

Ishmael
 
You know what's frightening about that? The fact that there is a large group of his supporters out there that seem to believe he can make that happen without the consent of congress, which would be highly unlikely.

Ishmael

You see bits and pieces of that stupidity around here all the time. The government has done a fine job turning the minds of an entire generation into a mass of sloppy, useless goo.

Outcome based education has been a resounding success for the Left.
 
LMAO. No, but Maduro, like Chavex before him, has been using PDVSA (the national oil company) as a jobs program for their supporters. Consequently they have one of the highest production costs of oil producing nation. They're pumping it alright,but they're losing their ass along the way.

Ishmael

So then this isn't an example the failure of socialism. It's an example of corruption succeeding too well.

Thanks! You're always a font of information.
 
You know what's frightening about that? The fact that there is a large group of his supporters out there that seem to believe he can make that happen without the consent of congress, which would be highly unlikely.

Ishmael

More accurately many Bernie supporters don't consider themselves Democrats and have no loyalty. Shit happens though.
 
If corruption can take down a nation, then a vote for Hillary is a vote for DEATH TO AMERICA!


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So then this isn't an example the failure of socialism. It's an example of corruption succeeding too well.

Thanks! You're always a font of information.

Depends on your POV sweetie. Most of the jobs in the old Soviet Union were job programs. Same in Cuba. Loyal 'party' members just got rewarded with the better jobs (I almost typed 'better paying jobs' there but in those sort of nations no one ever really gets paid.)

Ishmael
 
All of South America is based on the Socialist models.

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That's why they travel here, our emerging socialist model is still able, for a while yet, to fund its welfare programs.
 
Depends on your POV sweetie. Most of the jobs in the old Soviet Union were job programs. Same in Cuba. Loyal 'party' members just got rewarded with the better jobs (I almost typed 'better paying jobs' there but in those sort of nations no one ever really gets paid.)

Ishmael

Well, that can't happen here. We have checks and balances to prevent those types of things. :D
 
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