Venezuela. A picture is worth a thousand words

[Baron]

What's is going on in Venezuela. This brilliant picture explains it better as MS presstitutes

 

[Baron]

Just for remembrance

 

[Penelope]

Glad you brought this up. What happened to Venezuela was the global recession of 2008, plus they have smuggling of gas.
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Dec 2014 article so we were not exporting it then. We will be sorry if we continue on this way of fossil fuel subsidies and Trump and GOP stopping of clean energy subsidies.
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The reasons for large fluctuations in oil prices are often different. During the boom and bust of oil markets between 2007 and 2008, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the U.S. benchmark for oil prices, climbed all the way to $147 in June 2008 and within a matter of months fell to $30 in December of the same year. Speculation in the futures markets, as opposed to any significant shift in supply and demand, was largely to blame for the rapid rise and fall of prices during that period. Today it is a different story.

Demand has slowed somewhat due to a weak global economy, use of alternative fuels, and increased energy efficiency. In addition, the United States has become the world's largest oil producer. While the U.S. does not export crude oil, its increased production has curbed imports, resulting in excess supply. Although the fracking boom has helped to increase supply and steal market share from the Middle East, it is the Saudi response to the increased production from North American shale that has sent the price of oil tumbling.

The reason for lower gas prices: Saudi Arabia and fracking

 

[Penelope]

Just for remembrance

And you thought it was socialism for the poor, nope, socialism for the wealthy.

 

[JimBowie1958]

 

[Bleipriester]

Trump: First term but already two inaugurations.

 

[Penelope]

Who do you think are paying for the fuel subsidies, the working class.

 

[Bleipriester]

How to bring democracy...

 

[Baron]

I'm still thinking about two dictators like Bokassa and Duvalier. One was cannibale,the other one just mass murder, but both of them friends of US presidents

 

[depotoo]

Yeah, a picture says it all, through many, many years now

 

[Bleipriester]

Yeah, a picture says it all, through many, many years now
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Privately owned store shelves = capitalism, artificial shortage to blackmail the people and government.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

What's is going on in Venezuela. This brilliant picture explains it better as MS presstitutes

Hey go ask these countries how great Socialism worked for them.

1 Soviet Union
2 East Germany
3 Czechoslovakia
4 Poland
5 Cuba
6 Venezuela
7 Detroit
Every where a liberal/progressive/Marxist/Fascist/Communist/Socialist(they are all the same) gets in power they enrich themselves, and the people end up suffering, then get murdered by their government, until enough rebel against them. France is now starting to feel the pressure with yellow vests, soon, that country will have to either kill their own or expect a major rebellion....

Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals

2. Of Means and Ends [Forget moral or ethical considerations]

"The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody." p.24

 

[depotoo]

Yeah, a picture says it all, through many, many years now
View attachment 245106

Privately owned store shelves = capitalism, artificial shortage to blackmail the people and government.

Wow, you really have been brain washed. That’s why US grocery shelves have looked like this forever

 

[georgephillip]

What's is going on in Venezuela. This brilliant picture explains it better as MS presstitutes

Blaming Socialism, US Media Distorts Venezuela’s Food Crisis

"The facts are clear — Venezuela does have a food crisis.

"Mainstream U.S. media, however, blames the socialist government that has radically improved the country’s standard of living instead of right-wing U.S.-backed opposition forces intentionally sabotaging the economy.

"Since the early 2000s, supermarket owners affiliated with Venezuela’s opposition have been purposefully hoarding food products so they can resell them at higher prices and make large profits.

"Food importing companies owned by the country’s wealthy right-wing elite are also manipulating import figures to raise prices.

"In 2013, former Venezuelan Central Bank chief Edmee Betancourt reported that the country lost between US$15 and $20 billion dollars the previous year through such fraudulent import deals."

Imho, Maduro has proven himself incapable of governing Venezuela; however, his authority has more democratic legitimacy than his self-appointed rival who has sold out to US imperial interests.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Socialism happened in Venezuela

And the loons on the left want it here. Morons

 

[anynameyouwish]

What's is going on in Venezuela. This brilliant picture explains it better as MS presstitutes

Why is it that when a rational person wants to talk about socialist democracies like Norway and Finland (which have the happiest citizens in the world) conservatives IMMEDIATELY SAY "oh....you want to be like VENEZUELA, do you?"

 

[Bleipriester]

Yeah, a picture says it all, through many, many years now
View attachment 245106

Privately owned store shelves = capitalism, artificial shortage to blackmail the people and government.

Wow, you really have been brain washed. That’s why US grocery shelves have looked like this forever
View attachment 245108

There is no foreign power pushing your opposition to the limits.

 

[depotoo]

Chavez nationalized stores yet you want to blame the US.

Yeah, a picture says it all, through many, many years now
View attachment 245106

Privately owned store shelves = capitalism, artificial shortage to blackmail the people and government.

Wow, you really have been brain washed. That’s why US grocery shelves have looked like this forever
View attachment 245108

There is no foreign power pushing your opposition to the limits.

 

[initforme]

Another socialism thread....ad nauseum. Socialism this and socialism that. Last I checked we are capitalistic. And that has no chance of changing . Socialism has not an ounce of foothold here

 

[anynameyouwish]

Socialism happened in Venezuela

And the loons on the left want it here. Morons

"Socialism happened in Venezuela

And the loons on the left want it here. Morons"

I have no idea what the LOONS on THE LEFT actually want as I don't know any LOONS on the LEFT.

However, as a sane and rational lib/prog I can assure you that I do NOT want SOCIALISM like they have in venezuela.

SInce the USA already has SOME socialism that seems to work well some of us would like JUST a WEE BIT MORE socialism (affordable healthcare...)