Horrific situation in Venezuela

DerekJohnson

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/world/americas/venezuela-crisis-colombia-migration.html

dnc

Heartbreaking read

HoustonHusky

Fuck the NYTimes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/opinion/why-chavez-was-re-elected.html

doogie

Transition from late stage socialism to totalitarian communism is speshul.

GrundleStiltzkin

HoustonHusky said:

Fuck the NYTimes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/opinion/why-chavez-was-re-elected.html

Then there is the other side of the story: Since the Chávez government got control over the national oil industry, poverty has been cut by half, and extreme poverty by 70 percent. College enrollment has more than doubled, millions of people have access to health care for the first time and the number of people eligible for public pensions has quadrupled.

So it should not be surprising that most Venezuelans would reelect a president who has improved their living standards. That’s what has happened with all of the leftist governments that now govern most of South America. This is despite the fact that they, like Chávez, have most of their countries’ media against them, and their opposition has most of the wealth and income of their respective countries.

Wow, fuck them again.

LebamDawg

To Michael "I'm not too fat" Moore and Sean Penn this is the kind of government that we need here. I hope they are successful in their endeavors. Oops if they are would that be collusion?

CuntWaffle

doogie said:

Transition from late stage socialism to totalitarian communism is speshul.

Hondos wet dream

greenblood

I hear that crypto-currency is going to save them...

Nothing says desperation like relying on "Bitcoin's" illegitimate baby brother to pull you out of economic collapse.

GrundleStiltzkin

Venezuela moving towards a failed state status?

greenblood

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/22235681/marcos-carvajal-former-pitcher-dies-venezuela-amid-lack-medication

Socialist economies are great for the people, until they aren't.

greenblood

Derek, do you have a pseudonym for some of your work?

https://order-order.com/2017/06/27/lefties-duped-by-why-socialism-works-guide-on-amazon/

Sledog

The majority of this bored thinks this is what Americas needs!

Kaepsknee

This is the kind of thing that would never happen in Sweden.

UWhuskytskeet

HoustonHusky said:

Fuck the NYTimes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/opinion/why-chavez-was-re-elected.html

It was an op-ed. There are several shitty op-eds a day.

GrundleStiltzkin

UWhuskytskeet said:

HoustonHusky said:

Fuck the NYTimes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/opinion/why-chavez-was-re-elected.html

It was an op-ed. There are several shitty op-eds a day.

Mark Weisbrot is codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington and president of Just Foreign Policy.

Fair point.

But still, fuck them.

TurdBomber

Wow. Venezuelan moms have plump firm tittays.

TurdBomber

The more socialist Seattle becomes, the more third-world conditions we see on our streets, parks and greenbelts. Same-old, same-old of Capitalism-hating lefties who fail to grasp that it's the EFFICIENT USE of capital that resolves these problems and fuels the marketplace, and not the IDEOLOGICAL DEPLOYMENT of capital to those most-deserving of it, or whatever fairness or equity rationale the clowns in power choose to invoke.

Same shit we've seen over and over, and the same dead end for those who turn away from the fundamentals of the marketplace. Yet ideological idiots still shill for Socialism as the ultimate answer to all of society's ills.

Christ. What more do you have to see than this? That's where it always goes.

greenblood

TurdBuffer said:

The more socialist Seattle becomes, the more third-world conditions we see on our streets, parks and greenbelts. Same-old, same-old of Capitalism-hating lefties who fail to grasp that it's the EFFICIENT USE of capital that resolves these problems and fuels the marketplace, and not the IDEOLOGICAL DEPLOYMENT of capital to those most-deserving of it, or whatever fairness or equity rationale the clowns in power choose to invoke.

Same shit we've seen over and over, and the same dead end for those who turn away from the fundamentals of the marketplace. Yet ideological idiots still shill for Socialism as the ultimate answer to all of society's ills.

Christ. What more do you have to see than this? That's where it always goes.

Even countries like Sweden have adopted a more market friendly environment after their job rates and average wages sputtered.

GrundleStiltzkin

greenblood said:

TurdBuffer said:

The more socialist Seattle becomes, the more third-world conditions we see on our streets, parks and greenbelts. Same-old, same-old of Capitalism-hating lefties who fail to grasp that it's the EFFICIENT USE of capital that resolves these problems and fuels the marketplace, and not the IDEOLOGICAL DEPLOYMENT of capital to those most-deserving of it, or whatever fairness or equity rationale the clowns in power choose to invoke.

Same shit we've seen over and over, and the same dead end for those who turn away from the fundamentals of the marketplace. Yet ideological idiots still shill for Socialism as the ultimate answer to all of society's ills.

Christ. What more do you have to see than this? That's where it always goes.

Even countries like Sweden have adopted a more market friendly environment after their job rates and average wages sputtered.

But what of the train unions?

HoustonHusky

UWhuskytskeet said:

HoustonHusky said:

Fuck the NYTimes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/opinion/why-chavez-was-re-elected.html

It was an op-ed. There are several shitty op-eds a day.

You suggesting the whole paper isn't one big op-ed?

CirrhosisDawg

HoustonHusky said:

UWhuskytskeet said:

HoustonHusky said:

Fuck the NYTimes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/opinion/why-chavez-was-re-elected.html

It was an op-ed. There are several shitty op-eds a day.

You suggesting the whole paper isn't one big op-ed?

Need a safe space? Foxnews will make you feel better buttercup. All of this nasty “news” and “opinion”is no place for a sensitive person like you.