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Socalist dream crumbles...as usual


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2013 Oct 7, 3:30am   2,028 views  3 comments

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/10359267/As-socialist-dream-crumbles-Venezuelans-find-Nicolas-Maduro-a-bad-copy-of-Chavez.html

The army has been sent into toilet paper factories, fights for basic foodstuffs have resulted in several deaths and new, multi-million dollar oil tankers are sitting idle in dock. And, despite sitting on the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela’s socialist government can’t quite manage to keep the lights on. Now many in Venezuela are wondering how much longer President Nicolas Maduro, the anointed successor of the country’s firebrand Leftist leader Hugo Chavez, can keep hold of the reins of its crumbling socialist revolution. Last week Mr Maduro was forced to turn to a well-worn answer for his country’s woes, blaming...

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1   edvard2   2013 Oct 7, 3:32am  

Interesting to quote from Venezuelan news even though it has zilch to do with us.

2   MisdemeanorRebel   2013 Oct 7, 3:58am  

I made a comment about Hitler.

I confused the Daily Mail, where the Lord who owned it during the 30s was a fascist sympathizer, a correspondent with Hitler, and encouraged Britons to join the Blackshirts led by Mosley, a British fascist group, with the Daily Telegraph.

So I deleted the comment.

That being said, here's Venezuelas GDP growth. Note Chavez takes office in 1999, and the country has been continually governed by a left-wing coalition since that year, except for a few days of coup leaders in 2004.

Controlling the prices of basic foodstuffs while taking every advantage of a commodity spike to invest in public works has been amazing for VZ. The GDP exploded 400% in little more than a decade.

3   HEY YOU   2013 Oct 7, 5:04am  

Socialism is alive & well in the U.S with Republicans on some kind of govt. assistance,payroll or subsidy.

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