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Venezuela Increasingly Looks Like A War Zone
Over the years, we have repeatedly poked fun at the transformation of Venezuela into a "socialist utopia" - an economy in a state of terminal collapse, where the destruction of the currency (one black market Bolivar is now worth 107 times less than the official currency's exchange rate) and the resulting hyperinflation is only matched be barren wasteland that local stores have transformed into now that conventional supply chains are irreparably broken.
Just this past Wednesday we showed a clip of what is currently taking place inside Venezuela supermarkets, noting that "the hyperinflationary collapse in Venezuela is reaching its terminal phase. With inflation soaring at least 65%, murder rates the 2nd highest in the world, and chronic food (and toilet paper shortages), the following disturbing clip shows what is rapidly becoming major social unrest in the Maduro's socialist paradise... and perhaps more importantly, Venezuela shows us what the end game for every fiat money system looks like (and perhaps Janet and her colleagues should remember that)."
Unfortunately, while mocking socialist paradises everywhere is a recurring theme especially once they have completely run out of other people's money to burn through, what always follows next is far less amusing - complete social collapse, with riots, civil war and deaths not far behind.
That is precisely what the video shown below has captured. In the clip, a demonstration against Venezuela's poor transportation services quickly turned violent. End result: one person dead from a gunshot wound, more than 80 arrested and four shops looted on the Manuel Piar Avenue in San Felix.
What is most distrubing is how comparable to an open war zone what was once a vibrant, rich and beautiful Latin American country has become.
This is just the beginning: with the ongoing collapse of the economy, the resultant acts of social violence will only deteriorate and claim more innocent lives, until the "socialist utopia" ends as it always does: with the arrival of a military coup or a full blown civil war.
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Looks like South side of Chicago or North side of Milwaukee
"Looks like South side of Chicago or North side of Milwaukee"
Well, I got the shit kicked out of me in Wisconsin once
when people have nothing left to lose, they lose it... G. Celente
In a socialist system, shelves go empty because no one produces.
In a capitalist system, shelves stay full and product expires because no one can afford the product, and the product ends up in landfills.
Why are we stuck with these 19th Century pre-industrial revolution economic debates? Both systems are catastrophic failures and need 21st Century thinking to solve 21st Century problems.
"Why are we stuck with these 19th Century pre-industrial revolution economic debates? "
Populaces are languishing under 19th Century or earlier power structures dominated predominantly by 19th Century or earlier political and monied interests that have no interest in the general populaces -only in perpetuating their political and rentier fiefdoms.
The fact is: neither Socialism or Capitalism has actually been implemented anywhere. These terms are used to bamboozle people into thinking that something different is being implemented and that their political and economic decisions are actually unique and self determined.
Socialism doesn't exist: Oligarchy/Neo-feudalism does.
Capitalism doesn't exist: Oligarchy/neo-feudalism does.
Strip either of their exteriors and down to function, and you see that nothing resembling either of the claimed political systems actually exists in function in either case...
Large concentrations of political or economic power tend to work towards further consolidation.
What is required is de-consolidation, smaller and less powerful government and corporate organizations.
Divest power. 'Roll your own'. Fuck tha powleece. Down with 'authority. Etc...
< Detroit.
< Venezuela.
Which looks worse?
Detroit doesn't have 20,000 Cuban troops protecting the glorious leader and keeping him in power.
Cubans? Amatuers. Mugabe in Zimbabwe has North Korean troops to keep him in power.
Hey, keep it in perspective. Occupied Washington has a huge security apparatus. More than 20,000 I'm sure. Even The <privately owned> Federal Reserve has their own police force.
9 Doctor is a paid spammer, ignore the idiot.
I've been kicking around South America long enough to remember when Colombia was dangerous as hell and Venezuela was a paradise... Today, the opposite is true... Funny how shit happens...
Looks like a bunch of blacks and hispanics.
"People are starving-walk through a supermarket."
Starving? They look well fed to Scooby, just a bunch of ghetto people doing their thing.
Maybe Obama will invite a few of them to the Whitehouse to play some ball with the Chief Socialist. You know, show the world he be down wit dat.
Memphis police officer shot/killed last night. Traffic stop.
Hey thanks Federal Government for creating an environment where the people who protect us from the real terrorists, Obama's sons and daughters, are routinely killed.
Yea America.
I want a job where I can go to work each day with my hands tied behind my back by the Federal Government, and have their FSA shoot at me. Yes sounds nice. $35k per year? Perfect.
Apparently he didn't have a licence.
license to be so ugly?
Detroit may not have 20,000 Cuban troops protecting the glorious leader but they have "enough" troops to protect whoever needs protecting. If they only have 50 with radio communications they can swell their ranks to 3000, 15,000 or 300,000 in a matter of hours and have any equipment neccessary to do the job. Detroit or anywhere USSA has nothing on Venezuela at this moment. Shelves are full, Costco has "fresh" seafood/beef, gas is lower now than two years ago and fat women ride around on electric carts in Wal-Mart spending their SNAP debit cards. When Detroit and everywhere else hits Venezuela economic levels then run the smart lip comments.
Detroit went tits up when Colman Young was elected. It looks like Beruit-1975
im coming to you from detroit and i can tell you black criminality and democratic rule for 40+ years created this shithole. beware of these two things.
its all in the culture, trace it back to its origin.
rowanda, chop.chop for example.
take any race.
german, snuff, snuff
huimans of all races have same problem- power hungry sociopaths amoungst.
but some races are definitely better suited to form govs that actually
dignify the individual with rights, but they NEVER last long.
in general, moar intellect = moar freedom
IMFO
Right -- because capitalist offshoring of manufacturing had nothing to do with where Detroit ended up.
Actually that is right. If the oligarchs weren't busy taxing, regulating, and monopolizing everything to death, then we could be much more competetive with the rest of the world and slash our production costs exponentially.
Last i saw they were down about 30% to around 900 cops in detroit for a city of 700,000.
Both Detroit and Venezuela elected their leaders. It looks like the majority in many places fall for the old free stuff promises, make The Rich pay.
this is chave's deal or was right? what happened to all that oil money? cant we buy their oil and get them some cash? too simple?
We tried that, don't you remember Citgo gas at every 7-11? 7-11 dumped them in late 2006 because Chavez was stirring the pot on El Bushee.
<< murder rates the 2nd highest in the world >>
2nd to Detroit, NYC, LA, Chicago, Baltimore, Ferguson, ....
Don't worry folks! Superman from China is here to help Venezuela.
I don't believe US ever did anything like this to help ANY nation. It is a deep pockets thing, US won't get it because they have all the debt while China has all the cash! :)
But yeah...US did place sanctions on Venezuela to be a party spoiler instead of helping the poor brethren of Venezuela! LOL (Humanity has really left this planet totally)
All the information below and billions were sent by China just in the last 1 year....
A friend in need is a friend indeed!
Meanwhile, America keeps riding on its high horse while removing its own sanctions on Iran and Cuba that have failed after so many decades! Everyone knows sanctions don't work!
What will America do next? Place sanctions on Vatican with 500 citizens or maybe Pitcairn Islands with just 50 citizens, just to show that they have might? I am sure that's coming next and US Congress will surely pass it unanimously.....:)
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Even the Iranians are helping.
Iran gives Venezuela $500 million credit line
obama took a trip and did a lot of golfing, that counts right?
Depends on who won! Obama seems like a sore loser!
Maybe Maduro beat him and has a better handicap which is why Obama sanctioned the entire nation upon his return from the golf course! :)
"A friend in need is a friend indeed!"
The world is quickly running out of Socialist Paradises with which to show your solidarity.
China "gave" money ? No, China bought resources for pennies on the dollar - where do you think all the oil money has gone ? Into the pockets of the Venezuelan leaders and their security forces. Same old story.
Where do you think oil money goes in each country? It's the same. Whether Nigeria or Iraq or Venezuela....corruption is worse than Ebola! It never goes away in the best of nations!
China is spreading the wealth and creating equality, as far as I can see, without interfering in the internal politics of every country because every country has the right to have its own political systems which are unique for their own situation and population and social systems.
No external force should come and preach any nation on how they should run their country! We are diverse and let diversity be there and not make everything homogenous, which is what the problem of the world has become. We read the same stuff, wear the same clothes, eat the same stuff....it has become useless to even travel nowadays!
Hello My Dubaibanker Friend.
Do I detect a tone of jealousy?
Do You Want to Sing Along with Scooby?
Would love to sing along with you Scooby, my dear friend!
I aint no jealous, it is what it is! US is toast under its heavy debt burden and is behaving like fish without water....
Who would I be jealous against?
I am just stating the facts as they are and opine on a few things based on the facts!
I was being cheeky, not jealous!
"The purpose of a System is what it does." -- "Have Fun at Work"
The fact is: neither Socialism or Capitalism has actually been implemented anywhere.
You gotta love these "it just hasn't been done right yet" arguments.
What is required is de-consolidation, smaller and less powerful government and corporate organizations.
I agree. But why don't they form naturally? We just continually ramp up through consolidation ... then fracture in a catastrophic event ... and do it again, over and over and over again.
@ ThroxxOfVron
+100
Mr Tyler keeps saying that Vnzla has a socialist system but he fails to recognize that the entire economy is in the hands of the same old olygarchs that kept the country poor for a century. The current gov has not been able to start producing anything (shame on them) and the old guard is very happy with this.
"Both systems are catastrophic failures....."
Bullshit. You are either a liberal or have failed in life.
The capitalist system, in it's purest form, works just fine.
Elderly and physically incapable aside:
If you don't work, you don't eat. Period. We will carry you for a short time, but you will be required to step up or go hungry.
If you make lousy choices in life, you live with them. Failure in life IS AN OPTION. The world also needs ditch diggers.
If you make lousy business decisions, the enterprise should be allowed to fail.
There is no such thing as FAIR. Nothing in life is fair.
If you can't afford it, don't buy it on credit.
Work hard and stay out of debt.
If you can't afford a family, don't start one.
Sometimes you have to work 2-3 jobs you HATE in order to afford your lifestyle, and family.
Think long and hard before casting votes for idiots who look good on late night television.
Think long and hard before casting votes for carrear politicians who have no experience in the real world.
Corrupt politicians should be jailed, not voted back into office.
This list can go, but you may get the point.
An ethical society can flousirsh under capitalism.
When liberalism sets in, it should be stomped out like a roach. Violently.
Keep liberalism at bay, and all it's slippery forms, and capitalism will flourish.
'The capitalist system, in it's purest form, works just fine. '
No one has ever seen Capitalism.
If we had Capitalism, and it worked; there wuld be no reason for people to commit crimes like manipulating every manner of trade via either government intervention or simple fraud.
Libor, Commodities, energy, fx, interest rates, and just about everything else has been manipulated and gamed.
You are not merely wrong; but, most obviously a total ass if you think that the comfort of your position has anything do with a personal superiority of intellect or will or ability..
You have clung to some game or another. One rentier stream or fraud or another. Old money/power or violence or the like.
There are very very few well-off people who can honestly claim to be even remotely self-made -or honest.
What we have, always and everywhere, is Darwinism. Sometimes it's a more individual Darwinism, like medieval England and the early United States, where idiots are allowed to fail, and their children either starve or get adopted by functioning families. Usually it's a more collective Darwinism, as in Venezuela, where the idiots are allowed to drag everyone else down with them.
Since no one wants capitalism aka individual Darwinism anymore, I present the three rules of surviving under socialism:
* Don't live in a city
* Don't live in a desert
* Know which weeds are edible
Dave, its like risk transfer. Eventually, all the risk has been transfered to the system and we have systemic risk and it all blows up.
I'm self made, honest...now all we need to establish is the definition of "well off". Here is where things get subjective. One person may need very little in worldly goods to be comfortable and someone else may not have enough regardless of how much they already have. No matter how wealthy one is and no matter at what age disease or other circumstances can change the playing field at any time. Personally speaking I'm wealthier now than I was 40 years ago...but...40 years ago I was healthier than I am now. So..what's the criteria? For most it's a moving target unless your George Soros, but then, is eating babies and drinking their blood an aquired taste or does it come naturally?
You did not build that school you were educated in. What roads did you take to get there? What force protected your rights?
Self made on the backs of many.
Seriously? Piss off, Lizzie. Back in the days that schools actually educated children a co-op of neighbors would build it. That way they were all able to say self made. Look at a primer from that time and ask yourself why you aren't actually smarter than a fifth grader...
/Government is a necessary evil and should not be worshipped.
So basically you're a loser and you blame capitalism for the actions of criminals. LOL
If capitalism works why are people committing crimes? You can't seriously be that fucking stupid. The system doesn't cause people to become sociopaths.
"So basically you're a loser and you blame capitalism for the actions of criminals. LOL
If capitalism works why are people committing crimes? You can't seriously be that fucking stupid. The system doesn't cause people to become sociopaths. "
IF that is directed at me I will rebut.
There is little that can be defined as capitalism functioning in the United States or anywhere else on the planet..
There is NO broad systemic capitalist economic system in function anywhere.
There is plenty of crime, though, masquerading as captialism.
..& most of the purer expressions of capitalism are denounced as crime.
IMHO, captialism exists primarily/exclusively in grey/black markets such as the drug trade and prostitution, etc...
Capitalism sounds like an excellent idea. I like the concept quite a bit more than most other theoretical economic systems I hear boadly discussed. Maybe someone somewhere will actually implement it; but, we don't have it presently so arguing it's merit or lack thereof is rather ridiculous to me in the contest of assessing the politically manufactured economic and social destruction of Venezueala.
As long as there is intervention in the markets, there is no capitalism. It is that simple.
Thank you
I don't have the stomach to respond to that avatar. Except with a kick to the g-string.
Capitalism was pretty much the dominant force for about the first 400 years in America. This in a way includes the original Puritan attempt at collectivism which nearly killed them. At least it was voluntary and they changed it quickly.
By the 20th Century the usual elites were taking over and we get progressive-leftist ideas. Then elites create things like the Fed and assert the need for ever more policing functions. Drugs get outlawed and trade gets regulated and government favors were not far behind.
All systems, by definition, have rules. Whether good or bad, those rules must somehow be enforced, which leads to the question: who enforces the rules, and who polices the enforcers, given that the power to do so ultimately makes THEM the enforcer.
It's a Prisoner's Dilemma where early defectors become the ultimate enforcers. This is true regardless of what system you try to implement, the only variable being the rate of decay once corruption inevitably sets in.
In short, the pursuit of narrow self-interest ultimately renders all systems unworkable and eventually leads to their demise.
The system didn't create sociopaths but it certainly promotes them.
You would be wrong in your thinking, especially if you have none of the traits you assume others don't have either. I know plenty that started with nothing, were given nothing, and became multimillionaires on their own.
It requires moving to an area where money is flowing and not staying in a hick joint because of bad influences or preferences. The first rule I passed on to my grown son and daughter at an early age, BEWARE OF DETRACTORS, it is negative energy from people that choose that path.
Give it a try, you have a head on your shoulders or you wouldn't be hanging around here.
Success is always held in high regard, especially by the successful.
Divine Wind
In a way here in America it's even simpler. The American Dream is still pretty much alive, to those (on the whole) who will work for it. To attain the American Dream, here are three simple rules:
-- Finish school, don't drop out, go to college or vocational school
-- Don't ever quit your job unless you have a better one all lined up
-- Don't have children outside of marriage
It really is that simple. It may not be easy, but it is a simple program.
Some will fall through the cracks, but with Americans doing the above, we can take care of everyone.
38,
Your posts are invariably 100% spot on.
+1000
i agree with most of your posts, but not this one.
there is no simple recipe for success.
school and college are no guarantee of success (however you define that). there are plenty of broke english grads and women's studies majors that have loads of debt and no opportunities besides flipping burgers.
i went to college because my parents wanted me to, and convinced me that i should. in retrospect, i should not have, it was not necessary.
it wasn't until i dropped out, figured things out for myself, and started my own company, that i found my own direction and started to find some success.
there might be some professions where a degree is needed, there might be some people who actually know what they want to do with their lives, where college would be useful. but to say it's definitely for everyone is a mistake.
I'm surprised you didn't include "go to church on Sunday."
I broke all those rules except the children out of wedlock one (dodged that bullet), and yet by my own criteria, I consider myself successful.
But then, I was following the Canadian Dream, so results may vary...
My first and pretty well only rule is this: Whatever you do (and you must DO something) put some honest effort into it, and if you fail, don't give up, just try something else.
As for taking care of everyone, sorry. NO. I deeply resent being forced to carry people who simply DO NOT TRY. If someone is persevering and fails for reasons beyond their control, that's a different matter, but it's not what I see around me. What I see is a hoard of Free Lunchkateers with no self respect or initiative who think the world owes them a living simply because they showed up. Well FUCK THEM and the government they rode in on.
Clear enough?
Free lunchers, like people who inherit money for a living?
It is also important to live way below your means.
I concur to a point. But capitalism tends to morph into monopolies. We need to bring back the Sherman Anti Trust Act and break up companies that hold the nation hostage.
Thus modified capitalism, step one. Pure capitalism is harsh and inhumane when many are soooo well off. Step two....tax the rich. And so it goes...
Capitalist is a false cognitive. We've never experienced real capitalism in human history. We came close at the beginning of the American experiment before it reverted to fascism.
Capitalism is alive and well. It's just been outlawed.
It's called CASH bitchez. I see it everywhere. People doing deals/trade off the books.
If it's not on the books, you can do whatever the fuck you want - as long as you don't get caught.
9th dr. what an idiot yes your living in a catastrophic failure, I will not bother to explain you woud'nt get it..
"In a capitalist system, shelves stay full and product expires because no one can afford the product, and the product ends up in landfills."
Why don't you go shopping at a Walmart and you'll see that what you say is not true.
You are full of sh.t!
WIC cards and welfare subsidize both the employees and the customers of Wallmart.
Neither forced re-distributive schemes exemplify capitalism in my opinion...
In Soviet America, product expires you.
Clinton/Sanders 2016 campaign ad?
I guess nobody is buying food at the grocery stores and we've all starved to death and don't know that we're zombies. LMAO!!!
Some of the dumbest shit I ever heard.
Your response was quite funny and pretty good. It shows that at least 47 voters are still stuck in the left-right paradigm.
You cant have a succesful capitalism without freemarkets so you are partially right. We cant use centralized debt as universal monetary unit. Gold /silver freemarkets capitalism is the solution.
It is not really socialism at the root of it, it is satanism. It always destroys everything it comes into contact with. The governments of the world are all working with Satan, here is a leaked satanic New World Order/Annunaki website to prove it.... http://revelation12.ca/?p=2089
Yes, 9th Doctor. Surely someone could come up with a global government and solve all these problems. Wait... what?
Disagree. Capitalism is not a 'catastophic failure'. When the law does not apply to all then any system will fail. There is no ''21st Century thinking'. It's all wash, rinse, repeat. Romove government intervention (too big to fail) and apply the law to all (rich and poor) and the system will function much better but never be perfect, of course.
Disagree. Capitalism is not a 'catastophic failure'. When the law does not apply to all then any system will fail. There is no ''21st Century thinking'. It's all wash, rinse, repeat. Romove government intervention (too big to fail) and apply the law to all (rich and poor) and the system will function much better but never be perfectly, of course.
when government has a near monopoly on teaching our youth, they tend to indoctrinate with neo-liberal socialism while ignoring reality altogether.
true story
"Why are we stuck with these 19th Century pre-industrial revolution economic debates? Both systems are catastrophic failures and need 21st Century thinking to solve 21st Century problems."
The laws of math have existed since B.C. Every cycle has an up phase and a down phase and mathematically, that will not change. Kondratiev did not create a cycle, he discovered one.
Catastrophic failure occurs in the down phase of any cycle. There is no non catastrophic system.
The Roman Empire doesn't exist any more. It had an up cycle phase and a down cycle phase.
There is nothing new under the sun- a line written in Ecclesiaties - in B.C. There is no 21st century thinking. A stopped clock is right twice a day. Thus the politicians all claim they will save the economy, when the down phase of a cycle turns up all on its own.
You should have just zipped in and zipped out.
+1 for the Stripes reference
Is it Mob or Monkey mentality?
Monkey, and somebody give that monkey a banana.
So the Oligarchs want to institute communism globally, under the guise of a Technocracy/Scientific Dictatorship. It's never worked ever in the history of humanity, why do they insist on it?
Dual mental illnesses of narcissism and inflated ego with a lack of empathy or concern for the results of their actions so basically psychopaths
So, in short, human nature?
Because they're psychopaths and they figure they'll be on top and in control.
All they care about is personal power.
Village Not-Idiot, I think you hit upon the major point here, at least for me. Look at those videos. I find it profoundly grim and sad looking at those empty store shelves. Those shelves were built for products that used to be there. We are looking at nuclear economic destruction.
Here is perhaps the biggest myth in the history of government: Leftists care for "the people/little guy/masses/serfs". They care about themselves and power, first, second, third...99th, then you. Castro did not give a shit that his country was shit. He and bro Raul were in charge. They could jail anyone who did not listen to his three hour dipshit public rants. Mao, Kim, Stalin, and thousands of others are all the same. They cared about the country only in that it was the base of their power.
They were/are all psycho sociopaths. If they really really cared they would look at these videos, look at their country and at a friggin' minimum evaluate the effectiveness of their ideas. However, arrogance is necessary when you are a narcisistic megalomaniac. I remember Chavez kissing the cross always like he was God's personal socialist representative. He was an ass.
Presuming the elections were even halfway honest this is a testament to the stupidity of "the people". When you give it all to the strong man in the hope he will save you or work some economic miracle you this crap...every time.
I know, when the right guy or leftist team comes along in Bolivia, Argentina, Greece, Brazil,...USA we will get it right. The 163rd time will the time we get it right.
For anyone not involved, look, listen, learn, take copious notes. Then vote like you have a brain.
Okay FreedomGuy, so far so good until the last sentence. "Vote like you have a brain" Which would fix it, Bush or Clinton?
Who likes whack-a-mole contests?
short of revolution all you have is voting. I'd go for a Rand Paul, maybe Cruz or anyone who will break the system like a third party.
Bush and Clinton are the same party of incumbent power.
If Jeb and Hillary face off I am moving to a friggin beach in SE Asia and figuring out how long I can last on $28.35/day or whatever I have. Otherwise, I will have to live here on a steady diet of Valium, Prozac and oxycontin to keep the pain away.
"The Jewish people as a whole will become its own Messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship.
In this New World Order the children of Israel will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands."
— Baruch Levy, Letter to Karl Marx, 'La Revue de Paris', p.574, June 1, 1928
There is some good news in the war with the tribe - Asians are not giving in to their manipulations.
"Jewish difficulties in penetrating close-knit Far Eastern monopolies, many of which are open in their belief that Jews are capable and ruthless opponents in business, thus persist. East Asians are seemingly aware that giving Jewish businessmen an inch will normally lead to non-Jews losing a mile. It is this honest grappling with the facts that kept Daniel Loeb off the board at Sony, and prevented Elliot Associates from making even slight gains at Samsung."
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/08/paul-singer-and-universalit...
Control freak fucks. In polite company it's called authoritarian.
Because its a path to power that is empowered by dependency. Imagine how empowering it would be if one individual or one group had an iron grip control on all fresh water in the country over the last few hundred years. Managed smartly, they could have forged a monarchy in the US.
IF you go far enough north (on the edge of the City), you get to "While Folks" Bay (also known as White Fish Bay) which is very nice ... quiet, clean streets with a nice walk to the lake. Living north of Seattle now and I find it not much different. I think I'll stay however.
It's all good until the big one hits.
This is how US will look like after the middle class got destroyed. And emptied shelves through monetary policy, wasn't that Bernankes wet dream?
why do you think they built the Shanghai World Financial Center? Looks to me like 1913 all over again after sucking a huge chunk of the manufacturing sector OUT of the US. I guess they aren't through sucking the life out of the US yet. What I believe in is:
Article 1 Section 8
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"
I don't see free trade policy complying with this at all. Gutting manufacturing like steel plants and all kinds of electronics manufacturing is a national security concern as well as an economic security concerning all US workers. Its like handing destruction of the US into the 1 billion hands of China and its government.
"To borrow money on the credit of the United States;" Okay, I don't know about this one...what credit? Whose money? The Federal Reserve.... I don't get why such things exist.
"To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;"
Regulate commerce with foreign nations..... I think the founders knew what they were writing about and weren't as corrupt and stupid as the current crop of systemically corrupt politicians. Almost all of the foreign nations have VAT taxes that protect their domestic economies and we have so-called 'free trade zones' within the US which is utterly unconstitutional... SCOTUS is awol on their responsibility as a court.
"To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;" -Violated the US Constitution by 'saving' the corrupt bankers.
"To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;" -Again, federal reserve is a violation of the Constitution...
At least I now understand exactly why Hitler came to power but his objectives were not focused very well if he truly wanted to defend Germany from the bankers and financiers who likely wrote the stipulations of the Versailles treaty and were the root cause of the nations radicalization... in 1923 and in 1929
What is the Venezailan language? It sounds like spanish but it's not. I can only understand a few words of this.
Well, its Venezailan, of course. I think Rosetta Stone has a teaching CD you can buy.
They were asking where the toilet paper was and the other guy said to use your Bolivar bucks
Coming to an Obama city near you
When chaos says hi, truckers will have to make a life/death decision as to whether it is worth it for him to drive into the inner city. Most will say, "um, no." Will they then deliver to outer areas? This is an impossible question due to a million variables. One thing is certain, if you can't exist on your own for at least several weeks, you are fuct.
Reginal Denny. Was that the black guy the cops beat or the white truck driver the rioters beat?
The trucker. The other is Rodney King.
Denny was the truck driver. I think his first name is Reginald. Amazing that he survived.
Denny broke a basic rule of urban trucking:
Doors locked, gun in cab.
I would NOT have stopped that truck in that situation. I would've laid on the horn and progressively picked up speed, then let the chips fall where they may.
You don't want to get out of the way of a truck blaring the horn and coming your way? That's your choice...
Deliver hell.
They'll cut the seal and auction off the contents.
I have a buddy from there. He got out to Norte Americana w/ his money. lucky dude.
I met someone from a European family upper middle class who were trying to get out a few years into Hugo Chavez. He had already been shot once. He spoke perfect English and had impeccible manners. Very sad. My guess is things are 5 to 10 times worse now.
The ZWO are doing this to America with open borders, Cloward Piven, TV, Hollywood, etc.
SWO (Satanic World Order)
Say Zionist SMG. I dare you. I double dog dare you.
See Eirik Marx-Leninsson, socialism works!
No matter what color you are.
This scenario could never happen in the USSA. 'Cuz we're exceptional.
/sarc
Socialism in the US works - at least for the .1% - exceptionalism, ya know?
funny how 2 people I know had over $100k in stock of certain banks that were not selected for saving and lost all of it. Highly selective socialism ....
Fucking Merikans have voted in shit for brains Obama and imported this shit . Why? for a little free shit, well motherfucker you see how it lands up.
Please understand, Obama is just the latest disaster. Things went bad a long time ago and since then have only gotten worse for Team USA.
Why aren't all these people at work making toilet paper and stuff?
Who needs TP when you've got bolivars?
Unless they got fringes on 'em, I'll bet they just moosh it around.
or US dollars
The problem here is the Bolivar is no longer 2-ply.
Because the government will dictate the price below your cost.
The currency is cheaper for wipes than is the toilet paper.
Predatory capitalism...or sumpin.
Yawn, g-night.
What the hell has this got to do with capitalism?
Absolutely nothing, I was playing off of Tylers article/commentary (or whatever the fuck it was) just before this one.
THIS is the final "product" of crony-socialism, Chavez did just fine didn't he, so is Maduro, likewise Castro, Raul may have more brains, we'll see.
Breshnev, Khrushchev, go right down the line, they even looked like thugs.
I think economic hitmen have been running around the world for a while now. That they would have some tentacles in Venezuela would not surprise me.
What is interesting is the order of appearance the 2 articles. A simple ploy to drum up posts and rile people up? Or, are we being conditioned by the Tyler's to equate Venezuela's problems to hitmen exclusively,maybe there is a a rogue tyler the ranks.
Anything I have learned from this site is trust no one, not even this site.
"A simple ploy to drum up posts and rile people up?"
Highly likely, Weekend Tyler can always hide behind the thin veneer of "fair & balanced" but I would advise against it, as then he would have to give his personal opinion of free economies and the captured regulatory state, which he still holds a personal grudge against and thinks can be somehow healed, which wouldn't go over to well among the riled up masses now...lol.
Let there be mayhem! ;-)
Fidel is a billionaire, who'd a thunk it?
A real communist/socialist utopia ;-)
Same with Jamie and Lloyd, birds of a feather flock together coupled with systemic government corruption.
The open ocean is starting to look better and better every day.
Uh Oh...
Here comes the Smokers.
A nuked DC looks better every dzy.
I hope our 'enemies find every hidey hole abd logsistics hub.
Attention K-Mart shoppers .... the blue light special is over !
it was so good they even took the blue lights!
Venezuela has been super reliant on oil revenues and this enabled her to run a pseudo economy with rich lashings of socialism. But as always when free shit runs out the plain shit continues to flow.
Then again, if the fruit of the Fed Reserves printing press no longer has customers, the same sort of shit is going to be served to the people of the USA, so let's not get overly excited by the demise of a badly run socialist experiment in Venezuela.
Every government on the planet has been serving up free shit in one form or another over the years based predominantly upon debt and eating into retirement savings of taxpayers, so the day of reckoning is not exclusive to any one particular nation.
"Venezuela has been super reliant on oil revenues and this enabled her to run a pseudo economy with rich lashings of socialism. But as always when free shit runs out the plain shit continues to flow. "
Those resources were not 'free'.
Squandering them on indolence and easy living was and is a crime against future generations.
Wantonly burning petroleum and turning it into giga-mega-tonnages of plastic garbage and the like will one day be most bitterly regretted.
I didn't say that the resources were free, but as you correctly state, it was spent handing out free shit to consumers who were not in any real way producers.
"But as always when free shit runs out the plain shit continues to flow. "
The 'free shit' was the mispriced oil.
The OIL was the backing of the currency.
The CALORIES IN THE OIL empowered 'INDUSTRIAL MONEY'.
The fact that INDUSTRIAL Level MONEY was primarily wasted on indolences and producing junk was very short sighted -and continues all over the Globe.
The oil was sold and the 'money' squandered on indolences and turned into garbage/pollution.
This was a horrible trade.
It was a horrible trade everywhere it was made: the US, Britain, Venezueal, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, etc...
One day certain petroleum products will be unbelievably expensive because the real price for acquiring and using such limited resources WILL be realized.
Dear Throxx,
You still miss the point. Oil might have been free but it was never shit to begin with.
It is its sale of oil that enables the purchase and distribution of free shit.
But once again, I agree with the balance of what you right in general.
So please do not try for a third time to tell me that oil was the free shit because it wasn't and never will be.
The fact remains that these one trick economies that are over reliant on one product/service etc are extremely fragile when things change and they are no longer the flavour of the month.
I think that you ALL have missed the point.
WHO BOUGHT THAT OIL? YOU DID.
YOU FUCKING HYPOCRITES. YOU SUPPORT THAT SOCIALIST SYSTEM UNTIL IT NO LONGER SERVES YOU A BENEFIT.
YOU SUPPORTED IT BY PURCHASING CITGO GASOLINE.
THAT IS RIGHT, YOU STUPID FUCKS. YOU SUPPORT SOCIALISM AS FINANCIAL SUPPORT IS SUPPORT.
YOU WRITE ABOUT THE EVILS OF SOCIALISM AND THEN YOU PAY FOR THE CONTINUANCE OF IT.
THE REASON FOR SCREAMING THIS, AT THE TOP OF MY FUCKING LUNGS, IS THAT YOU ARE ALL SO GOD DAMNED DEAF THAT YOU REFUSE TO HEAR IT.
YOU ALL MAKE ME SO SICK OF YOU.
YOU DO NOT LIKE SOCIALISM?
I CANNOT STAND SOCIALISM, MYSELF. BUT HYPOCRISY PISSES ME OFF MORE...HOMICIDALLY PISSES ME OFF.
IF YOU DO NOT LIKE IT THEN STOP PAYING FOR IT. IT IS YOUR FUCKING CHOICE.
YOU DO NOT LIKE SAUDI ARABIA CHOPPING HEADS FROM CRIMINALS' BODIES? THEN STOP BUYING SAUDI PRODUCTS. (Or at least withdraw as much as you can..TO YOUR OWN TOLERABLE LEVEL OF PAIN.)
YOU FUCKING NARCISSISTS.
GO WITHOUT...FOR A CHANGE. (It does not matter. Since you will not choose it then it has already be GOD ORDAINED for you. You will NOT have the choice. Financial Collapse is on the horizon and yu...YES YOU...will not be enjoying the life to which you have been accustomed. And YOU CAN BE CERTAIN THAT I WILL BE LAUGHING...AT THAT.)
FINANCIAL SUPPORT IS SUPPORT. YOU PAY FOR IT WITH THE CONTENTS OF YOUR WALLET AT THE GOD DAMNED GAS PUMP.
Go ahead and junk this. Then take a fucking good look in the mirror and attempt to convince yourself, through VAIN JUSTIFICATION. Love that BULLSHIT IMAGE that you PROJECT HERE.
The sad TRUTH is that you are VERY FUCKING UGLY AND DISGUSTING. Junking this post will NOT CHANGE THAT TRUTH.
I am ugly, I do not deserve what I have, and I will soon be without it. Good points and ones which we should all keep in mind.
I must say I refused to buy a single gallon of Citgo.