These Venezuelans aren’t rioting. They are waiting in line for food. Their country has ample farmland and a great climate for growing food. They put all their faith in their socialist leaders to centrally plan their economy and create a government controlled paradise.
Venezuela has 211 billion barrels of oil reserves, 2nd only to Saudi Arabia on the planet. The socialists have been in charge for decades. Why are the people waiting in lines to get fuel for their homes? They put their trust in the all powerful, all benevolent socialist government.
Barack Obama and his minions believe government can allocate resources (your taxes) better than you can. Forward Amurika!!! Venezuela is our goal. Free shit for everyone. What could go wrong?
These damn idiots voted these socialist into office and now they are getting what every socialist nation gets.Shortages of the basic necessities of life and more poverty ,pain and misery.I have no sympathy for them.How many failed socialist nations does it take to prove socialism cannot work in real life.Most people learn nothing from history and we in the US are heading in the same direction.Disgusting.
“For the average person, many folks who don’t have health insurance initially, they’re going to have to make some choices. And they might end up having to switch doctors, in part because they’re saving money.”
Barack Obama
Venezuela’s toilet-paper shortage oddly worsening, despite Maduro’s “new economic order”
Erika Johnsen
When will President Nicolas Maduro finally free Venezuelans from the tyrannical shackles of supply and demand ruining their lives? Despite his best efforts at establishing price caps, government rationing, currency controls, and stationing troops at places of business in order to prevent the collusion of greedy profit-seekers and American imperialists in their “economic war” against him, the mass shortages of basic goods plaguing Venezuelans persist. Indeed, since parliament granted Maduro his requested “emergency decree powers” in the weeks before the country’s municipal elections and he promised to impose a “new economic order” of fairness and equality, the shortages, the rampant inflation, and the black-market exchange rate of more than ten times the official rate all seem to be getting even worse. It just doesn’t make any sense, amirite?
The Washington Post has a nice write-up of the continuously devolving situation in the Socialist utopia:
Employees at the Excelsior Gama supermarket had set out a load of extra-soft six-roll packs so large that it nearly blocked the aisle. To stock the shelves with it would have been pointless. Soon word spread that the long-awaited rolls had arrived, and despite a government-imposed limit of one package per person, the checkout lines stretched all the way to the decimated dairy case in the back of the store.
“This is so depressing,” said Maria Plaza, 30, a lawyer, an hour and a half into her wait. “Pathetic.” …
“Soon we’ll be using newspaper, just like they do in Cuba!” said an elderly man nearby, inching forward in line. “Yeah! Like Cuba!” others shouted. …
[Sidebar: Er, no actually — they probably won’t even have that. Venezuela is struggling with a major shortage of newsprint, too, with press outlets unsure of whether they’ll be able to keep their newspapers in circulation.]
The arrival of basic staples such as cooking oil, chicken, flour or milk brings Venezuelans running to supermarkets and touches off surreal mob scenes, even as the government imposes price caps and rationing to prevent hoarding. …
“The store owners are doing this on purpose, to increase sales,” said Marjorie Urdaneta, a government supporter who said she believes Maduro when he accuses businesses of colluding with foreign powers to wage “economic war” against him.
“He should tell the stores: Make these items available — or else,” she said. …
“Make these items available — or else”? …Well. That’s one economic template that will certainly help to incentivize people’s behavior — just probably not with the precise types of incentives Venezuela needs right now.
Where’s the picture of these idiots waiting in line for toilet paper?
This is what our country will be in a few years.
Thanks to democrats, we now live in a socialist country. How can you say otherwise when half the population is getting money from the government? The democrats have become the modern day American socialist party. Liberal progressives stealing money from the productive and redistributing it to the lazy masses who don’t have to work for a living. Once the productive quit being productive or flee the country or are taxed to death and become bankrupt, we’ll be Venezuela. Book it Danno.
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Thanks for the toilet paper picture.That’s what happens when you don’t prep…
When you going to post my “corruption” post? I submitted it yesterday
AWD
It says you are still editing it.
The only reason Venezuelans are turning against Maduro is because they think he’s not as good as Chavez at “helping the people”. Few disagree that the government exists to help the people. The concept of the government existing mainly for defense against external threats and to provide a framework of law is totally foreign to them. Americans increasingly share the Latino hope for a beneficent government, and the more Latinos who get the vote here, the worse it’ll get. Our best hope is to restrict the vote to as few as possible and drag out for as long as possible the time when they can vote. By then – if we’re lucky – they may have internalized some individualism. I think that Tejanos are not particularly “progressive”, so that gives us a little hope.
Nope, it’s done
My only problem with any of this is that Democrats are blamed for all of it. In so far as I can tell, both parties have adopted the redistribution model. The only differerence is who receives the windfall. This issue has been studies in depth with pretty much 0 difference between the two political parties. Government expands equally fast regardless of the party in power.
I’m shocked that quantitative easing hasn’t performed economic miracles there like it has in this country. Have you noticed that we seem to be permanently trapped in a “recovery” mode that could be likened to a stroke victim getting around with the use of a walker?
Maduro Warns Venezuelan Protesters “We Are Coming For You”; Calls John Kerry A “Murderer”
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/15/2014 19:34 -0400
As the daily street protests grow bloodier and bloodier, Venezuelan President Maduro has escalated his comments today, exclaiming that he “won’t be bullied,” and warning “prepare yourself, we are coming for you,” if protesters don’t “go home within hours.”
*VENEZUELAN PROTESTERS HAVE ‘HOURS’ TO CLEAR BARRICADES: MADURO
*MADURO SAYS HE’LL SEND ARMED FORCES TO ‘LIBERATE’ PROTEST AREAS
With 28 dead in the last month of protests, things are very serious but as we warned previously, Maduro still enjoying the support of the poor – as EuroNews reports, it appears he is not going anywhere soon. John Kerry also came under fire as the foreign minister called him “a “murderer of the Venezuelan people,” accusing him of encouraging the protests.
As Bloomberg reports,
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro says he will send armed forces to clear barricaded areas if “protesters don’t go home within hours.”
“Prepare yourself, we are coming for you,” Maduro tells soldiers at army event in Caracas
Plaza Altamira in eastern Caracas, the center of the protests, first to be “liberated,” Maduro says
As tensions with the US continue to rise:
The United States on Friday brushed aside “absurd” accusations by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that it was meddling in the country’s internal affairs by intervening in anti-government protests.
Venezuela’s foreign minister Elias Jaua had earlier called top US diplomat John Kerry a “murderer of the Venezuelan people,” accusing him of encouraging the protests that have killed 28 people in five weeks.
“The solution to Venezuela’s problems lies in democratic dialogue among Venezuelans, not in repression or in hurling verbal brickbats at the United States,” a state department official said on condition of anonymity.
“Venezuela’s government needs to focus on solving its growing economic and social problems, not on making absurd allegations against the United States.”
Maduro, however, charged that “the desperate government interventionism of the United States is clear.”
“There’s a slew of statements, threats of sanctions, threats of intervention. There has been lobbying by the highest officials in the US government,” he said.
As Stratfor notes, these protests could mark a turning point as the economic situation deteriorates there is a chance that protests like this could begin to generate additional social momentum in rejection of the status quo…Perhaps things could be changing for Maduro…
Relatively large student-led opposition protests convened in Caracas, Valencia, Maracaibo and many other cities throughout the country. Rough Stratfor estimates put the crowd in Caracas at between 15,000-20,000 people based on aerial photos posted on social media. Venezuela’s students are very politically active and protests are frequent. However, the relatively large turnout and widespread geographic distribution of this week’s protests indicate that the movement may be gaining traction.
The challenge that the student movement will face is in finding a way to include Venezuela’s laboring class, which for the most part still supports the government, and relies on its redistributive policies. Their inability to rouse broad support across Venezuela’s social and economic classes was in part why previous student uprisings, including significant protests in 2007, failed to generate enough momentum to trigger a significant political shift.
But the situation has changed in Venezuela, and as the economic situation deteriorates there is a chance that protests like this could begin to generate additional social momentum in rejection of the status quo. President Nicolas Maduro has been in office for less than a year, and in that time the inflation rate has surged to over 50 percent and food shortages are a daily problem. Though firmly in power, the Chavista government is still struggling to address massive social and economic challenges. Massive government spending, years of nationalization and an overreliance on imports for basic consumer goods have radically deteriorated inflation levels, and undermined industrial production.
How the government responds will play a key role in the development of these protests going forward. The government cannot afford to crack down too hard without risking even worse unrest in the future. For its part, the mainstream opposition must walk a careful line between supporting the sentiment behind open unrest and being seen as destabilizing the country. Maduro retains the power to punish opposition politicians, and reaffirmed that Feb. 11 when he stated on national television that he intends to renew the law allowing him to outlaw political candidates who threaten the peace of the country. The statement was a clear shot over the bow of opposition leaders, and may foreshadow a more aggressive government policy designed to limit political opposition.
Perhaps it is the use of armed forces directly and aggressively that will roil the “poor”‘s perspective – we will see
Admin
David Yeagley has passed away.
The great-great-grandson of the Comanche leader Bad Eagle (1839-1909), died on March 11 after a valiant struggle with cancer.
He was a good man. A brave man. A fighter. And a very, very smart man.
He could have been one of us.. he spoke his mind fearlessly, even when that led to him being dismissed from his work.
On Immigration:
American is not a haven for losers, criminals, and populations of failed Third World countries; but, open immigration has made it such. The Third World is overrun by mindless reproduction, low standards, destructive religion, filth and disease. To invite such defective masses is suicidal for any nation.
On Citizenship:
Few people should be allowed citizenship. It should be made precious. Very few people should have the right to vote, and that right must be earned with terrible trial and knowledge.
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Admin,
Can you post something about David Yeagley as a main article?
He was a good man.
Found out about Yeagley here:
Got my failure of civility book in. Great book from what I’ve read so far
sensetti
What I like about the book is that it’s written by two guys I can relate to, and the fact that they write in a very much no-bullshit style. Their message is clear: If you want to survive, you’re going to have to do THIS, which might be distasteful or morally repugnant, but you will have to do it to live. Period.
One thing one of the authors said was that the reason they lived when others died was because they brought one more magazine, one more pistol, one more of something else… not because they knew they would use it, but because they got in the habit of carrying extra stuff = just in case.
One of the things that I did was repurpose a bag that our chem gear was supposed to be stored in. They’re rubberized and pretty water resistant and plenty roomy. I would load up as many magazines as I could, and cram that bag full, then sealed it. Threw it over my shoulder with all the other crap I had to hump around, and it looked gay, but I was really, really glad I had it. A full load out (during my time) was 7 magazines – one in the rifle, 6 in your ammo pouches. That rubberized bag held way more than that…
Morally repugnant is not in my vernacular.