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Communism, by Any Other Name, Would Still Stink

Filed under: Venezuela

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Venezuelans wait in line outside a state-run market
in Caracas on Oct. 30, 2007 hoping for the chance to buy groceries.

"It takes a miracle to find milk."

-- Venezuelan construction worker Gustavo Arteaga, 37-year-old father-of-two, who has to take days off from work in order to spend sufficient time searching for basic food products to feed his hungry family.

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The world's command economies are showing predictable signs of destroying themselves. Venezuela, despite it's oil riches, can't put milk on the table. Russia, similarly blessed with fossil fuels, is experiencing such vicious inflation that Soviet-style price controls have been imposed. And we've just discovered that Chinese factories are spewing out poison toys to the world's children.

Looks like a job for SUPER capitalism!

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Artfldgr says:

they do not believe that success comes from the application of principals and merit, that its a trick, a outcome of interpersonal manipulations. after all, they see enemies everywhere that cause their 'perfect' plans to fail, its never their plans.

however, people are NATURALLY CAPATALIST because their survival depends on it.

if you have 200 people and food for only 75, distributing it evenly among all the people would result in all of them dying.

nature solved the problem a long time ago in that those who shared like this died, and those that didnt survived, while those that refused to compete also died.

taking from those who have more to give to those that have less (and not by voluntary charitible action), ends up creating a lot that have less than they need to all survive.

i bet chavez has no problem getting milk, because he is more equal than everyone else, and of course the foot can starve and be cut off, but chavez believes he is the brain, and the NATURAL order he sees is that the politic brain is the most important thing.

the other thing is that all that will happen now will be ascribed to growing pains, enemies of the state, and not that their plans are screwed up and such.

so the misery will grow... and grow, and they will believe that the more misery, the more progress they are making... because progress requires uncomfortable changes... no?


meanwhile... students are being shot at (as clearly predicted), and so they will not be able to turn a pickle into a cucumber.



Vova says:

I love Venezuela; I used to hang out there so I know the country well--from Pico Bolivar and Pico Humboldt to Canaima and Kavac, Angell Fall, Paraguana peninsula, Marcaibo, name it. The most beautiful women (after Trinidad), so Sharapova doesn't stand a chance there. When I played there Hugo was just a thug in jail. But Venezuela is both like "Russia" and unlike "Russia": the similarity is that the country is rich, the people poor, and it's ruled by animals. The difference in that there are still humans left in Venezuela whereas there are almost none in "Russia"


Kim Zigfeld says:

RUSSIAN BEAR:

I warned you. Because of your obscene comment directed at a fellow commenter, your comments have been deleted and you are now banned from commenting on this blog until you apologize and reform your childish ways. Until then go play with your poop somewhere else, you piece of filth.


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