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2015-04-14 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Fred 2015-04-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Let them eat . . . toilet paper.

Posted by gorb 2015-04-14 00:26|| 2015-04-14 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Pretty much the end-stage of any People's Party / Workers collective paradise.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-04-14 01:19|| 2015-04-14 01:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm sure the little people are happy to starve while the glorious leaders continue to eat like kings. Just like Stalin and his cronies did.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-04-14 02:05|| 2015-04-14 02:05|| Front Page Top

Posted by 2015-04-14 05:57|| 2015-04-14 05:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Typical Socialist ending...shared misery for all..Sean Penn was a big fan..I'm sure he'd be happy to donate all his millions for the cause..

Posted by Warthog 2015-04-14 09:27|| 2015-04-14 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 I see plenty fried yucca, I see plantains by the by the boat load and maybe black beans once a week.

Posted by Shipman 2015-04-14 10:16|| 2015-04-14 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 But what might occur in just a few weeks from now is the total standstill of the country after running out of supplies, because companies are not getting the necessary dollars from the Government to pay for imports, Dallen said.

I think I see the problem

Posted by Frank G 2015-04-14 10:41|| 2015-04-14 10:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Yea, well, it'll take a lot longer in USA.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-04-14 12:01|| 2015-04-14 12:01|| Front Page Top

#9 #8 Yea, well, it'll take a lot longer in USA.

Only because we still have a productive class we can mooch off of and the govt hasn't totally munged up the economy yet.

Posted by SteveS 2015-04-14 12:14|| 2015-04-14 12:14|| Front Page Top

#10 the govt hasn't totally munged up the economy yet.

That's not for a lack of trying Steve.

Posted by AlanC 2015-04-14 12:36|| 2015-04-14 12:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Not for lack of succeeding either. The productive class is getting smaller daily.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-04-14 12:40|| 2015-04-14 12:40|| Front Page Top

#12 'Freedom is just another word for nothing left lose' Sometimes it takes actual pain for some folks to learn an important lesson.

Posted by Airandee 2015-04-14 13:46|| 2015-04-14 13:46|| Front Page Top

#13 And this is only getting started.

Posted by newc 2015-04-14 15:00|| 2015-04-14 15:00|| Front Page Top

#14 Soylent Green distribution coming soon(tm).

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-14 17:37|| 2015-04-14 17:37|| Front Page Top

#15 The Venezuelans voted for this.

My sympathy meter reads zero.

Posted by charger 2015-04-14 20:05|| 2015-04-14 20:05|| Front Page Top

#16 Bad Luck.

Posted by Devo 2015-04-14 20:36|| 2015-04-14 20:36|| Front Page Top

#17 ^ Heinlein fan

Posted by Frank G 2015-04-14 21:32|| 2015-04-14 21:32|| Front Page Top

#18 The Venezuelans voted for this.

Maybe. We know Carter 'certified' the first election, probably as good as any Chicago vote. He may have justified it in his mind as to avoid violence and/or civil war. Instead he may have sold the population into socialist slavery. As they say about 'good intentions'...

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-14 22:15|| 2015-04-14 22:15|| Front Page Top

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