100,000 Venezuelans cross border shopping for scarce food

[RodISHI]

Name a nation that doesn't have taxes to pay for the roads, police, military, clean air, water and food standards, invest in science, r&d, etc. You can't

What if I could name 6 hotshot?

United Arab Emirates

• Oman

• Bahrain

• Qatar

• Saudi Arabia

• Kuwait

10 Countries With Zero Income Taxes -- The Motley Fool

Some of the most oppressive money regimes in the world that keep a world of shit stirred among the poorer ME nations through deceptive religious rhetoric. The sad thing is the old GOP and the Clinton Democrats appear to want that same shit here in the U.S. and for the whole world for they can be the ruling class. Oklahoma and Texas are looking like prime examples of an oppressive police state where they can even empty out pre paid cards of the poor via a simple traffic stop.

 

[RodISHI]

This isn't because of poor management of the monetary system, or that there are shortages in all economies.

What's going on in Venezuela is because of gross mismanagement of the economy by the Chavez and Maduro governments. There were shortages before the price of oil collapsed.

These two idiots were grossly ignorant on how an economy runs. There are so many examples in Venezuela, it's hard to know where to start.

But ultimately, they tried to set prices to benefit the poor and wound up creating shortages everywhere. And rather than blame their own gross incompetence, they blamed capitalists, America, speculators, and pretty much everyone else.

Socialists and communists who don't understand how the price system works are ultimately bound to fail, as they have over and over and over again.

Marx said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Venezuela is about as farcical as it gets, since this has happened several times in Latin America before. It's doubly farcical since Chavez effectively was following Marxist principles.

The two idiots instituted price controls in response to rising inflation in an effort to help the poor. That and the devaluation of the bolivar due to the controls on foreign exchange and the labyrinth of exchange rates which created a black market. Either way you look at it, poor monetary policies appear to be the culprit.

Neither of the idiots was/are Marxist.

Wrong. On both accounts. Karl Marx is the father of Communism. This is what happens when Communist takes over. Poverty, starvation, destruction...... sad but true. Communism / socialism is the most brutal form of Government on the face of the earth.

Venezuela has not achieved socialism. Venezuelan leaders are reformist, populist criminals, content to use a mixed economy to loot the country and enrich their friends, which seems more in line with capitalism to me. It most certainly isn't marxist. Chavez even denounced marxism as being outdated and advocated for what he called 21st century socialism (reformism).

Those who call themselves capitalist who oppress free markets via legislation to force their products onto the public are not truly capitalist.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Are you now using the term satanist as a euphemism for Jew?

Are you now suggesting that all Communists are Jews?!

I don't believe god's chosen people are all communists, nor do I believe all communists are god's chosen people. Though I can understand why god's chosen would want to undermine all other religions and can see the connection.

If you believe the Jews are God's chosen people why did you falsely accuse Israel of crimes? Why did you lie about the ICJ being unable to act - implying some reason for failure to act against Israel? Did you not realize the cases ICJ heard were available on Google and that Picaro would find and use those cases to expose your attempts to lie and deceive the readers?

And now here you are again attempting to portray yourself as honoring God's chosen people again not realizing that I already saw the evidence just yesterday of your anti-semitism on Picaro's diologue w/ you on USMB. You see your lies have caught up with you and now your credibility has been lost.

 

[Tehon]

This isn't because of poor management of the monetary system, or that there are shortages in all economies.

What's going on in Venezuela is because of gross mismanagement of the economy by the Chavez and Maduro governments. There were shortages before the price of oil collapsed.

These two idiots were grossly ignorant on how an economy runs. There are so many examples in Venezuela, it's hard to know where to start.

But ultimately, they tried to set prices to benefit the poor and wound up creating shortages everywhere. And rather than blame their own gross incompetence, they blamed capitalists, America, speculators, and pretty much everyone else.

Socialists and communists who don't understand how the price system works are ultimately bound to fail, as they have over and over and over again.

Marx said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Venezuela is about as farcical as it gets, since this has happened several times in Latin America before. It's doubly farcical since Chavez effectively was following Marxist principles.

The two idiots instituted price controls in response to rising inflation in an effort to help the poor. That and the devaluation of the bolivar due to the controls on foreign exchange and the labyrinth of exchange rates which created a black market. Either way you look at it, poor monetary policies appear to be the culprit.

Neither of the idiots was/are Marxist.

Wrong. On both accounts. Karl Marx is the father of Communism. This is what happens when Communist takes over. Poverty, starvation, destruction...... sad but true. Communism / socialism is the most brutal form of Government on the face of the earth.

Venezuela has not achieved socialism. Venezuelan leaders are reformist, populist criminals, content to use a mixed economy to loot the country and enrich their friends, which seems more in line with capitalism to me. It most certainly isn't marxist. Chavez even denounced marxism as being outdated and advocated for what he called 21st century socialism (reformism).

Those who call themselves capitalist who oppress free markets via legislation to force their products onto the public are not truly capitalist.

I don't believe that, I believe it is the very nature of capitalism to seek ever expanding profits by whatever means is at the capitalist's disposal. Crony capitalism is a meaningless term used to disguise the true nature of capitalism. Truly free markets, if such a thing were to exist, would descend into tyranny via monopolization.

 

[Tehon]

Are you now using the term satanist as a euphemism for Jew?

Are you now suggesting that all Communists are Jews?!

I don't believe god's chosen people are all communists, nor do I believe all communists are god's chosen people. Though I can understand why god's chosen would want to undermine all other religions and can see the connection.

If you believe the Jews are God's chosen people why did you falsely accuse Israel of crimes? Why did you lie about the ICJ being unable to act - implying some reason for failure to act against Israel? Did you not realize the cases ICJ heard were available on Google and that Picaro would find and use those cases to expose your attempts to lie and deceive the readers?

And now here you are again attempting to portray yourself as honoring God's chosen people again not realizing that I already saw the evidence just yesterday of your anti-semitism on Picaro's diologue w/ you on USMB. You see your lies have caught up with you and now your credibility has been lost.

I don't believe the Jews are god's chosen people, I was being facetious.

 

[RodISHI]

This isn't because of poor management of the monetary system, or that there are shortages in all economies.

What's going on in Venezuela is because of gross mismanagement of the economy by the Chavez and Maduro governments. There were shortages before the price of oil collapsed.

These two idiots were grossly ignorant on how an economy runs. There are so many examples in Venezuela, it's hard to know where to start.

But ultimately, they tried to set prices to benefit the poor and wound up creating shortages everywhere. And rather than blame their own gross incompetence, they blamed capitalists, America, speculators, and pretty much everyone else.

Socialists and communists who don't understand how the price system works are ultimately bound to fail, as they have over and over and over again.

Marx said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Venezuela is about as farcical as it gets, since this has happened several times in Latin America before. It's doubly farcical since Chavez effectively was following Marxist principles.

The two idiots instituted price controls in response to rising inflation in an effort to help the poor. That and the devaluation of the bolivar due to the controls on foreign exchange and the labyrinth of exchange rates which created a black market. Either way you look at it, poor monetary policies appear to be the culprit.

Neither of the idiots was/are Marxist.

Wrong. On both accounts. Karl Marx is the father of Communism. This is what happens when Communist takes over. Poverty, starvation, destruction...... sad but true. Communism / socialism is the most brutal form of Government on the face of the earth.

Venezuela has not achieved socialism. Venezuelan leaders are reformist, populist criminals, content to use a mixed economy to loot the country and enrich their friends, which seems more in line with capitalism to me. It most certainly isn't marxist. Chavez even denounced marxism as being outdated and advocated for what he called 21st century socialism (reformism).

Those who call themselves capitalist who oppress free markets via legislation to force their products onto the public are not truly capitalist.

I don't believe that, I believe it is the very nature of capitalism to seek ever expanding profits by whatever means is at the capitalist's disposal. Crony capitalism is a meaningless term used to disguise the true nature of capitalism. Truly free markets, if such a thing were to exist, would descend into tyranny via monopolization.

That was why monopoly laws were on the books. Can't tell you where those are at today because I do not know if they kept them in place or did away with them through more legislation. I have no doubt when they repealed the Glass Steagall Act and convinced a lot of people to invest their retirement funds with unscrupulous investment bankers that opened the door for a lot of the mess we are seeing today in the USA.

 

[Ridgerunner]

toodles Tehran...

 

[Tehon]

The two idiots instituted price controls in response to rising inflation in an effort to help the poor. That and the devaluation of the bolivar due to the controls on foreign exchange and the labyrinth of exchange rates which created a black market. Either way you look at it, poor monetary policies appear to be the culprit.

Neither of the idiots was/are Marxist.

Wrong. On both accounts. Karl Marx is the father of Communism. This is what happens when Communist takes over. Poverty, starvation, destruction...... sad but true. Communism / socialism is the most brutal form of Government on the face of the earth.

Venezuela has not achieved socialism. Venezuelan leaders are reformist, populist criminals, content to use a mixed economy to loot the country and enrich their friends, which seems more in line with capitalism to me. It most certainly isn't marxist. Chavez even denounced marxism as being outdated and advocated for what he called 21st century socialism (reformism).

Those who call themselves capitalist who oppress free markets via legislation to force their products onto the public are not truly capitalist.

I don't believe that, I believe it is the very nature of capitalism to seek ever expanding profits by whatever means is at the capitalist's disposal. Crony capitalism is a meaningless term used to disguise the true nature of capitalism. Truly free markets, if such a thing were to exist, would descend into tyranny via monopolization.

That was why monopoly laws were on the books. Can't tell you where those are at today because I do not know if they kept them in place or did away with them through more legislation. I have no doubt when they repealed the Glass Steagall Act and convinced a lot of people to invest their retirement funds with unscrupulous investment bankers that opened the door for a lot of the mess we are seeing today in the USA.

40+ years of neoliberal entrenchment in our government has effectively neutered antitrust.

 

[RodISHI]

Wrong. On both accounts. Karl Marx is the father of Communism. This is what happens when Communist takes over. Poverty, starvation, destruction...... sad but true. Communism / socialism is the most brutal form of Government on the face of the earth.

Venezuela has not achieved socialism. Venezuelan leaders are reformist, populist criminals, content to use a mixed economy to loot the country and enrich their friends, which seems more in line with capitalism to me. It most certainly isn't marxist. Chavez even denounced marxism as being outdated and advocated for what he called 21st century socialism (reformism).

Those who call themselves capitalist who oppress free markets via legislation to force their products onto the public are not truly capitalist.

I don't believe that, I believe it is the very nature of capitalism to seek ever expanding profits by whatever means is at the capitalist's disposal. Crony capitalism is a meaningless term used to disguise the true nature of capitalism. Truly free markets, if such a thing were to exist, would descend into tyranny via monopolization.

That was why monopoly laws were on the books. Can't tell you where those are at today because I do not know if they kept them in place or did away with them through more legislation. I have no doubt when they repealed the Glass Steagall Act and convinced a lot of people to invest their retirement funds with unscrupulous investment bankers that opened the door for a lot of the mess we are seeing today in the USA.

40+ years of neoliberal entrenchment in our government has effectively neutered antitrust.

That an neocons. It is two sides of a coin. It is that away across the globe as you get these factions that believe that they are above the laws and not really criminals when in fact they are criminals against both humanity and God.

 

[Tehon]

Venezuela has not achieved socialism. Venezuelan leaders are reformist, populist criminals, content to use a mixed economy to loot the country and enrich their friends, which seems more in line with capitalism to me. It most certainly isn't marxist. Chavez even denounced marxism as being outdated and advocated for what he called 21st century socialism (reformism).

Those who call themselves capitalist who oppress free markets via legislation to force their products onto the public are not truly capitalist.

I don't believe that, I believe it is the very nature of capitalism to seek ever expanding profits by whatever means is at the capitalist's disposal. Crony capitalism is a meaningless term used to disguise the true nature of capitalism. Truly free markets, if such a thing were to exist, would descend into tyranny via monopolization.

That was why monopoly laws were on the books. Can't tell you where those are at today because I do not know if they kept them in place or did away with them through more legislation. I have no doubt when they repealed the Glass Steagall Act and convinced a lot of people to invest their retirement funds with unscrupulous investment bankers that opened the door for a lot of the mess we are seeing today in the USA.

40+ years of neoliberal entrenchment in our government has effectively neutered antitrust.

That an neocons. It is two sides of a coin. It is that away across the globe as you get these factions that believe that they are above the laws and not really criminals when in fact they are criminals against both humanity and God.

Kleptocracy is the economic model that has intertwined the once distinct factions.

 

[RodISHI]

Those who call themselves capitalist who oppress free markets via legislation to force their products onto the public are not truly capitalist.

I don't believe that, I believe it is the very nature of capitalism to seek ever expanding profits by whatever means is at the capitalist's disposal. Crony capitalism is a meaningless term used to disguise the true nature of capitalism. Truly free markets, if such a thing were to exist, would descend into tyranny via monopolization.

That was why monopoly laws were on the books. Can't tell you where those are at today because I do not know if they kept them in place or did away with them through more legislation. I have no doubt when they repealed the Glass Steagall Act and convinced a lot of people to invest their retirement funds with unscrupulous investment bankers that opened the door for a lot of the mess we are seeing today in the USA.

40+ years of neoliberal entrenchment in our government has effectively neutered antitrust.

That an neocons. It is two sides of a coin. It is that away across the globe as you get these factions that believe that they are above the laws and not really criminals when in fact they are criminals against both humanity and God.

Kleptocracy is the economic model that has intertwined the once distinct factions.

I think world trade needs to be done but with tight restrictions so locals are not displaced.

 

[Tehon]

I don't believe that, I believe it is the very nature of capitalism to seek ever expanding profits by whatever means is at the capitalist's disposal. Crony capitalism is a meaningless term used to disguise the true nature of capitalism. Truly free markets, if such a thing were to exist, would descend into tyranny via monopolization.

That was why monopoly laws were on the books. Can't tell you where those are at today because I do not know if they kept them in place or did away with them through more legislation. I have no doubt when they repealed the Glass Steagall Act and convinced a lot of people to invest their retirement funds with unscrupulous investment bankers that opened the door for a lot of the mess we are seeing today in the USA.

40+ years of neoliberal entrenchment in our government has effectively neutered antitrust.

That an neocons. It is two sides of a coin. It is that away across the globe as you get these factions that believe that they are above the laws and not really criminals when in fact they are criminals against both humanity and God.

Kleptocracy is the economic model that has intertwined the once distinct factions.

I think world trade needs to be done but with tight restrictions so locals are not displaced.

I would prefer a more isolationist approach where resources and technological know how are shared/exchanged globally while production and distribution is retained locally.

 

[RodISHI]

That was why monopoly laws were on the books. Can't tell you where those are at today because I do not know if they kept them in place or did away with them through more legislation. I have no doubt when they repealed the Glass Steagall Act and convinced a lot of people to invest their retirement funds with unscrupulous investment bankers that opened the door for a lot of the mess we are seeing today in the USA.

40+ years of neoliberal entrenchment in our government has effectively neutered antitrust.

That an neocons. It is two sides of a coin. It is that away across the globe as you get these factions that believe that they are above the laws and not really criminals when in fact they are criminals against both humanity and God.

Kleptocracy is the economic model that has intertwined the once distinct factions.

I think world trade needs to be done but with tight restrictions so locals are not displaced.

I would prefer a more isolationist approach where resources and technological know how are shared/exchanged globally while production and distribution is retained locally.

I think both could work for awhile to insure everyone gets fed. Too many areas are still lacking the resources around the globe to just shut it short without preparing for a disaster. It just needs to be done more logically for innocent people do not get hurt in the process and entire environments are not destroyed; and it can't be done with such massive force again where innocents are destroyed. We need more peace makers, some good statesmen and negotiators that are capable of making long lasting agreements that are not corrupted to put more corrupt people in power positions.