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December 30, 2016

Cue Venezuela’s Ration Cards

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So there we have it, the infamous ‘ration card’ – the end result in every communist country.
China, Cuba, Nicaragua, the Soviet Union, Angola and Mozambique. I could go on, but it’s too depressing. Oh sure, Venezuela under Chavez pretended that this was not their end goal. They liked to call it first the ‘Third Way’, then ‘Participatory and Protagonist Democracy’, then ‘Democratic Socialism’, to eventually land on just plain old ‘Socialism’. 19 years of stupidity. It’s all the same. After all the money has been stolen from bank accounts and companies nationalized to be redistributed to idiots; malinvested into grandiose schemes of national pride that remain half-finished and crumbling into the Caribbean storms; dumped in to purchase weapons that sputter away their utility for lack of maintenance and purpose; or simply frittered away on propaganda or whatever else the Politburos come up with that morning in the shower (they, at least, still have water), we arrive at the ration card. Stability. This is what the communist regimes say it’s about. Food stability. | Joel D. Hirst's Blog

Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 30, 2016 9:43 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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At least the "proper" people are millionaires (in dollars, not Venezuelan scrip).
Kinda like how our politicians become millionaires on 150K a year, or less.

Posted by: OldFert at December 30, 2016 6:29 PM

Kinda like EBT cards. Vote for me and I'll give you some of his. Works until you run out of his.

Posted by: J Kass at December 30, 2016 9:09 PM

What a time for Thomas Sowell to retire. Socialism never works in the end, yet folks still gravitate toward it. I guess it is the lure of "free stuff".

Posted by: Snakepit Kansas at December 31, 2016 6:51 AM

"the infamous ‘ration card’ – the end result in every communist country."

End result? Nope, just another transition. Wait for the next!

Posted by: itor at January 3, 2017 9:33 PM

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