Venezuela falling apart

[The Green Barbarian]

C'mon, GB, ya gotta smile at yourself and everyone's foibles on here on the odd occasion.

Sure, the only reason I post here actually is because I have so much fun. Actually met some pretty cool people through this forum too. Everyone has an opinion, but on here you have to take it all with a grain of salt. I'm just as guilty as anyone of not following that advice and letting my emotions get the better of me. I definitely have way more fun when I'm not fighting with people, though I know you'd probably disagree. :)

BTW, who does Venezuela continue to support?

I don't think they support anyone else. I will look into it.

[The Green Barbarian]

So Maduro makes another move to turn Venezuela into a dictatorship. The natural evolution of the evil left. Even super lunatic leftist Jeremy Corbyn may have to admit that supporting Chavez and then Maduro was monumentally stupid. Guess what Jeremy? All of your policies are stupid!! What a bonehead!

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.telegraph ... -urge/amp/

[averagejoe]

Socialism Has Destroyed Venezuela

Friedrich Hayek famously observed that socialist central planning puts countries on the road to serfdom.

The latest dead end on that highway to hell—already littered with the human victims of past failed attempts in places like Cuba and the old Soviet Union—is in Caracas, Venezuela.

That is where, last weekend, President Nicolás Maduro and the thousands of Cuban communists who actually run his government took the final step to squash the rights of individual Venezuelan citizens and impose an authoritarian dictatorship.

Hayek could have told us: It is the logical last act in the Venezuelan tragedy that began nearly 20 years ago with the election of Maduro’s mentor (and Fidel Castro’s protégé), Hugo Chavez.

http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/02/socia ... venezuela/

[averagejoe]

Leftist utopia!

Whatever happened to all those leftists who went gaga over Venezuela?

"Schadenfreude" can be defined as feeling happy when something goes wrong for someone. In the case of the left's fascination with and praise for Venezuela over the years, the current catastrophe in that country has absolutely vindicated those of us who knew that the fall of the Chavistas was inevitable and that the moral blindness of the left to the authoritarian impulses of Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, would come back to bite them someday.

Today is that day.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... zuela.html

[averagejoe]

LOL...No wonder Bernie Sanders supports are leftwing nutcases....

5 Years Ago Bernie Sanders Said that Venezuela is the True American Dream

In an essay lamenting what he described as the intractable income inequality of the American economy, Senator Sanders declared: “These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger.”

Despite receiving trillions of dollars in oil revenue over recent decades, Venezuela is in the midst of an unprecedented economic collapse, owing precisely to the redistributionist programs that Sanders has extolled as a model for the U.S. economy. Grocery store shelves are barren, hospitals have no access to vital medicines, rationing is under way, and riots have begun to coalesce in the streets of Caracas.

Ecuador’s President, Rafael Correa, is preparing to leave a country mired in a deep recession and facing a currency crisis. Like Venezuela, Ecuador has been ruled by a socialist government that was able to subsidize its social engineering projects through oil revenues. The end of the oil boom has left the government without the means of paying for its programs, and as Correa prepares to leave office – most likely turning it over to Vice President Lenin Moreno – he used a recent earthquake as a pretext for a huge tax increase.

Argentina, the third of Sanders’ economic role models, is a country with immense natural and industrial wealth that has seen its economy strip-mined by a kleptocratic government. Under President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the government’s official statistics agency, Indec, released a steady stream of fabrications to disguise the country’s decline – which were accepted at face value by credulous people like Bernie Sanders. __ Sanders’ Words Come Back to Haunt.

https://alfinnextlevel.wordpress.com/20 ... e-sanders/

[d0nb]

Bernie is such a typical socialist wannabe. A total hypocrite.

Socialists never seem able to learn that, like umpires, the role of government should be limited to enforcing the rules of the game without bias. When it starts playing the game and adjusting the rules to dictate outcomes, things end badly.

[averagejoe]

Why all liberals should live in a COMMUNIST state for a month

The Health Ranger explains why all liberals and “progressives” should live in a socialist or communist nation for a year. It will dramatically change their views on liberty vs. big government.

Try living in Venezuela, communist China, Cuba or North Korea for a year, and you’ll suddenly LOVE America a whole lot more!

http://investmentwatchblog.com/why-all- ... r-a-month/

[johnny24]

Why all liberals should live in a COMMUNIST state for a month

The Health Ranger explains why all liberals and “progressives” should live in a socialist or communist nation for a year. It will dramatically change their views on liberty vs. big government.

Try living in Venezuela, communist China, Cuba or North Korea for a year, and you’ll suddenly LOVE America a whole lot more!

Who cares? Why do we need to love America? We live in Canada. This is like saying I should eat dog crap, so I can love the taste of liver.

[JagXKR]

And dog crap is very much a kin to communism. Both are not good for you.

[The Green Barbarian]

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/inews.co.uk ... state/amp/

[The Green Barbarian]

I see the LA Times is blasting brainless idiot and LEAP Manifesto author Naomi Klein for her support of the lunatic leftists in Venezuela and rightly so. Her and her grinning bonehead husband Avi Lewis are national embarrassments to this country.

The list of Western leftists who once sang the Venezuelan government’s praises is long, and Naomi Klein figures near the top.

In 2004, she signed a petition headlined, “We would vote for Hugo Chavez.” Three years later, she lauded Venezuela as a place where “citizens had renewed their faith in the power of democracy to improve their lives.” In her 2007 book, “The Shock Doctrine,” she portrayed capitalism as a sort of global conspiracy that instigates financial crises and exploits poor countries in the wake of natural disasters. But Klein declared that Venezuela had been rendered immune to the “shocks” administered by free market fundamentalists thanks to Chavez’s “21st Century Socialism,” which had created “a zone of relative economic calm and predictability.”

Chavez’s untimely death from cancer in 2013 saw an outpouring of grief from the global left. The caudillo “demonstrated that it is possible to resist the neo-liberal dogma that holds sway over much of humanity,” wrote British journalist Owen Jones. “I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people,” said Oliver Stone, who would go on to replace Chavez with Vladimir Putin as the object of his twisted affection.

On the Venezuelan regime’s international propaganda channel, Telesur, American host Abby Martin — who used to ply her duplicitous trade at Russia Today — takes credulous viewers on Potemkin tours of supermarkets fully stocked with goods. It would be inaccurate to label the thoroughly unconvincing Martin, who combines the journalistic ethics of Walter Duranty with the charm of Ulrike Meinhof, a useful idiot. She's just an idiot.


Most of Chavismo’s earlier adherents have maintained a conspicuous silence in the face of the Venezuelan calamity. Those who do speak up, rather than apologize for getting things so wrong, blame collapsing oil prices for the country’s fate. Yet the decline in the value of petroleum has not led to rioting on the streets of Oslo. The tragedy of Venezuela is the predictable result of what happens when a strongman wages, in Chavez’s own words, “economic war on the bourgeoisie owners,” cracks down on media, prints money with reckless abandon and implements all manner of harebrained socialist schemes.

In the age of Trump, Brexit and a wider backlash against globalization, left-wing economic populists are enjoying a resurgence in mainstream credibility by railing against free trade and “neoliberals.” This is a scandal. For in the form of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the world has a petri dish in which to judge the sort of policies endorsed by Jones, Klein, British Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, homegrown socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and countless other deluded utopians.

There, the ghastly failures of their ideas are playing out for everyone to see; a real-time rebuke, as if another were needed, to socialism. That these people are considered authorities on anything other than purchasing Birkenstocks, much less running a country, is absurd.

So yes, let’s put term limits on pundits. And let’s start with anyone who praised the Venezuelan model.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-secur ... ll-silent/