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http://www.miamiherald.com/new...rticle206950449.html ...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV | ||
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Little ray of sunshine |
Venezuela sucks. I heard an interview of a 30-something woman who was a nurse in a smaller town. She hadn't been paid for being a nurse in 18 months, or something along those lines. To support her children, she traveled to a larger city on her "days off" to work as a prostitute. This is not uncommon. (At least it isn't a crime. I understand that prostitution is legal and regulated there.) The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Thank you Very little |
either way she goes she is screwed.... It's a tough situation, oil prices down, Venezuela doesn't have the cash flow to sustain its socialist/Marxist government, you'd think this would be a major discussion for youth as to why this type of governance fails, A perfect example of how, socialism is great until you run out of other peoples money. | |||
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Lawyers, Guns and Money |
... and then it's enforced at the barrel of a gun. The Chávez government banned private gun ownership in 2012. But now... Maduro is arming his supporters: Socialist Venezuelan Leader Steps Up Arming of Supporters After Outlawing, Confiscating Civilian Guns Maduro plans to arm 400,000 supporters amid protests and unrest http://freebeacon.com/issues/s...ating-civilian-guns/ "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
When you get to that point, there's no discussing politics, just survival. The politics can easily be spun to blame the imperialistic USA whose policies made Venezuela what it is today. Not that I subscribe to this notion, but that's how I'm seeing liberal articles about Venezuela today. Just 3 or 4 years ago, Venezuela was a star country in the multinational company I worked for. Our group over there got the drop on our competitors in the face of government regulations and we cornered the market. Then a few years later, faced with what was coming down the line, we actually closed up shop and stopped doing business over there ahead of the current situation. What was egregious was someone in government wanted to know months ahead of time what we wanted to import down to the sku and lot number and to get approval. We tried to work with that for a while but more and more regulations and the risk of the government taking over the business assets made the decision for our company. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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As bad as it is now, I fear its likely to get even worse. Quite sad and completely unnecessary. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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Peace through superior firepower |
I'm out. That's as far as I got. | |||
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Looks like a good place to send the Socialist loving air heads from our Colleges for a first hand experience. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
I’d feel sorry for them, except that most of ‘em voted for Chávez and Maduro. They’re getting what they deserve. Serious about crackers | |||
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I didn’t, and I highly doubt that more than 40% of the votes (after the initial Chavez election) went to Chavez, and definitely not Maduro. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
^^^^ Yeah, I was planning to edit my post to add that elections under Maduro were bogus, but your post beat me to it. Serious about crackers | |||
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I want to know why Danny Glover, Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Jesse Jackson, Michael Moore, etc, who praised Chavez and his socialist paradise, are not down there doing their part to help the people who are starving and fighting over garbage. . | |||
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No worries! Remember this is a complex issue, and your initial statement of “they deserved it” is a bit harsh. Did we deserve Obama in 2008 and 2012, or are there a bunch of morons out there? I’d imagine it’s more the latter, unfortunately. | |||
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Lawyers, Guns and Money |
Socialism kills. Unfortunately, we are not teaching that in our socialist "public" schools. We are "educating" a bunch of morons here too. We are raising an army of young socialists in our public schools. We will suffer for it. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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