Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "BBC News" channel.

  1.  @lunafringe10  No. Venezuela's anti-business policies brought about its current situation. Throwing its productive citizens under the bus in favor of political lackeys was entirely Venezuela's idea.
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  2.    And when socialism doesn't starve people and have millions die, it cripples economies and stagnates societies. Guyana, Jamaica, India, Nicaragua, anywhere Eastern Europe, etc.
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  3. @UnoriginalAsshole LOL. Hard-working and government officials do not belong in the same sentence. And by the way, government officials care nothing about the people, election time aside.
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  4.  @reverie.b7401  Maybe not, but the poor are often foolish and ignorant.
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  5. Too bad that idea was what led to food shortages, famines and Zimbabwe being no longer able to feed itself. Taking land from those who knew how to farm and giving those who did not like the fellow African in the video.
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  6.  @natalieparedesparedes9102  Because socialism and communism is anti-humanity to the core.
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  7.  @meocean5499  Largely due to oil. And most of the money going to MPLA officials, family and friends.
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  8. Women still have value as personal maids and baby-making machines.
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  9. That's basically their social safety net, especially when they're no longer able to work and take care of themselves. Nursery homes don't exist there.
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  10. @ Fact Check Oh yes there are rich people in a socialist society. They're the government.
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  11.  @kofi5632  Social programs and public services =/= socialism. Try central planning, centralized authority and the general lack of (economic) freedom due to state control and the restricting/banning of private anything.
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  12. Apparently.
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  13.  @johnyohann6946  No it doesn't. Socialism and communism are one and the same. Socialism opposes the free market and the middle class. It supports government or some other centralized authority control of the production means.
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  14. Socialism and totalitarian dictatorships go hand in hand.
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  15.  @tracybzowy2486  <Not everyone likes being crammed into cities> Just like not everyone likes living in the middle of nowhere with no jobs or services having to drive just to get even the most simplest of things.
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  16. <Move to the smaller cities or even the towns in rural Canada and housing prices are very affordable> But fewer jobs and amenities.
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  17. Exactly.
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  18. Nah. It's the Venezuelan government.
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  19. Let me guess. Maduro is an innocent victim, right?
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  20. Except Alberta is about as well-liked as Quebec.
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  21. Underneath the compassion and empathy is contempt and condescension.
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  22. Yet all the biggest mass-murdering tyrants in history were Atheists.
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  23. Only because of Deng's capitalist reforms and Clinton shipping out all the American manufacturing jobs there.
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  24. Feed the hungry or buy votes from the hungry?
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  25. Not really. Maybe because North America wasn't dumb enough to adopt the central-planning policies of much of the rest of the world.
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  26. <Our leaders are dying in foreign hospitals because African leaders do not built "World class standard" hospitals in their countries> Mugabe Toure Amin Mobutu Dos Santos
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  27. Didn't it run out of french fries a couple of years ago?
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  28.  @fahoodie1852  Zimbabwe hasn't been capitalist since its Rhodesia Ian Smith days.
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  29. @ Alternate Man That's because socialism in its purest form puts power in the hands of the state. The more powerful the state becomes, the less freedom the average person gets to enjoy.
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  30. No it's not. How is a country with a large land mass and only 3 million people overpopulated?
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  31.  @jaxtonwilliamjaxtonwilliam508  For what?
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  32. Because they don't want to run the risk of getting their crops seized by the government?
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  33. While letting foreign migrants slave away and starve.
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  34.  @withastickangrywhiteman2822  Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Il-Sung, etc.
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  35.  @lamarazmoe6438  No. By socialism, he means: central planning state expropriation of land/business/resources/wealth the jailing/killing/exiling of the middle class one-party rule
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  36.  @andrei-jg6gd  And so far that would be nothing, right? Which explains why the government is begging White farmers to come back and make the land productive again.
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  37. I presume you're a ZANU-PF loyalist.
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  38. <How the Fck is our economy greater than Ghana’s, and even Nigeria’s, or Kenya, in per Capita income, these countries have been at peace since their independence, with no comparable war, yet somehow, the terrible Dos Santos regime, who inherited a country already turned apart by war, and started fixing it since 2002, was horrendous. Give me a break.> Yet Angola has a higher poverty rate than Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria as a solid 40% of Angolans live in poverty. Nigeria may not have had comparable war, but it was ravaged by political instability.
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  39. Or marginal at best.
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  40. And where is the money going to come from to pay for it?
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  41.  @MrSeekerOfPeace  Namely CCP money-launderers, or should I say investors?
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  42.  @keniacobacci1873  A left-wing rag. GTFO indeed.
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  43. The only rich people in Venezuela are Maduro, his comrades and Chavez's daughter.
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  44. Well, Latin America is White since it was founded by White Spaniards.
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  45. Not any more than national socialism or regular socialism. Agreed.
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  46. @ datautisticgamer He never cared to begin with aside from using the people for political (and personal) gain.
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  47.  @Smoke1  And interestingly had socialism for most of its post-independence existence.
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  48.  @Smoke1  I know, but it doesn't change the fact that many of the countries there tried socialism only to flounder all the same.
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  49. Resulting in his daughter being one of the richest people in Africa.
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  50.  @danchokonstantinov6735  While practicing imperialism against its neighbors like Afghanistan, Ukraine, the Baltics, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
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  51. Because ultimately they don't owe anyone anything
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  52.  @prabhakaranjeyamohan4579  <the control of production is under a authoritarian government.> Socialism in real-life practice.
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  53.  @jonathantan2469  Like the champagne socialist he is!
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  54. In the case of Venezuela, Maduro, Chavez's family and the PSUV are the 1%.
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  55.  @Appleriver3  He's right. Socialism restricts job availability to the public sector.
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  56. All because they were scared of LePen.
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  57. Even better to see 21st Century socialism running its course in Venezuela.
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  58.  @HWEspana  But those people are just using Quebec as a stepping stone to get to Toronto and Vancouver.
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  59. At the expense of the English, that is.
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  60. Thanks to capitalism propping up their socialism. LOL
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  61. No. Thanks to 21st Century Venezuelan socialism.
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  62. Why? The Venezuelan people got exactly what they voted for. Let them live with the consequences in peace.
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  63. In Venezuela's case, it's government-imposed starvation. Not that far off from a lot communist regimes of the past.
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  64. Compassion for what? The people pretty much got what they voted for, and now want to cry about the results upon finding it too unbearable to live with.
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  65.  @mariannedooley9877  You need not look any further than the African-American community for a prime example of what you're talking about.
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  66.  @sizanogreen  Compassion? Or virtue-signalling.
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  67. Hardly. The average Brit still have it better than the average Venezuelan.
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  68. @Lovebombs ROFL.
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  69. Exactly.
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  70. Birth control is the least of its issues. Venezuela's #1 issue is the Maduro government.
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  71. And cheap foreign labor.
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  72. Canada has already done that.
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  73. But in all fairness, most voters are not that bright.
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  74. Pretty much.
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  75. True. But to many people, Toronto and Vancouver are the only Canadian places worth living in as they won't consider anywhere else.
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  76. No. Try mismanagement, corruption and good old-fashioned socialists being socialists.
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  77.  @jokerofmorocco  Like Jean-Bedel Bokassa of the CAR and Francisco Macias Nguema of Equatorial Guinea.
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  78. But America has roughly 10x Venezuela's population.
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  79. The US done nothing to the Guyanas. And Guyana didn't need outside interference for its socialist experiment to fail.
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  80. Namely Party bureaucrats.
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  81. Alongside his predecessor's daughter, Maria Gabriela Chavez.
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  82.  @n.r.2258  Singapore, South Korea, Monaco, Switzerland for starters.
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  83. The Spanish Empire earned its demonization.
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  84.  @ranitanner4928  Plus he killed the Public Transit tax credit.
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  85. Canada is not a socialist country. Sorry!
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  86.  @nemo320  No. Venezuela is functionally socialist. And its leader sells resources to Russia, Cuba and China.
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  87.  @AdaireBlanche  For all of its faults, the system you're currently living under still beats what North Korea has which is perpetual deprivation and regression
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  88. Why don't you help out? Rich people owe Venezuela nothing.
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  89. Does that include you?
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  90. <successful socialist country> Like? And capitalist welfare states like Sweden doesn't count.
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  91. Kabila.
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  92. Coupled with low supply.
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  93. The same people that voted for said rulers that in turn made their lives a living hell?
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  94. Bureaucracy and not enough educated and killed people to do much with them.
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  95.  @kanoraguy  Try public transit for one as they're next to non-existent in smaller cities and towns.
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  96. That's not saying much since Pyongyang = Potemkin Village.
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  97. Maduro.
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  98. But that would be racist and xenophobic. LOL.
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  99. Yes we still would have hunger and poverty issues. All the money in the world can't fix stupid and ignorant. There's a reason why many lottery-winners go back to being broke in a month.
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  100.  @Bruh-mg5ff  And how much of that starvation under capitalism was due to state expropriation of land as consistently found in North Korea, China, Cambodia and the old USSR?
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  101. No. Try Chavez and Maduro.
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  102. And like Marx, Bernie hardly worked a day in his entire adult life and lived off of his girlfriend.
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  103. Venezuela is functionally socialist. The government owning the means of productions has always been one of the hallmarks of socialism/communism.
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  104. Don't they have a border dispute with Guyana?
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  105. Because no one wants to live in Alberta or Western Canada in general.
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  106. It's her money and she's free to spend it however she likes. Not really. You would have done what Kylie is doing, because bleeding-heart virtue-signallers only care about the poor and downtrodden when it's expedien and at someone else's expense.
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  107. Because that's where all the jobs and opportunities are at.
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  108. Nicolae Ceausescu style!
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  109.  @rodrigogregorio5247  Agreed.
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  110. Socialism/communism and dictatorships go hand in hand.
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  111. With the "greater good" being the Chinese Communist Party.
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  112. What people? The people that should be gaining profit from oil are the same people the government chased out. The skilled and experienced personnel that made the oil profitable in the first place.
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  113. LOL.
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  114. LOL. Weather-wise, Canada is anything but decent.
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  115. No it doesn't. What it needs is the reinstatement and establishment of the private sector as central planning failed miserably at trying to be everything to everybody.
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  116.  @psauer1234  Except state jobs which can only be gotten by nepotism and patronage.
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  117. The US has nothing to do with Mongolia. Take it up with China!
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  118. Whatever, Chavista!
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  119. Just ask Germany. They had to put up with it under Angela Merkel's watch.
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  120. Private gardens are banned and the people traded their self-determination for free stuff.
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  121.  @mrk45  Which has plenty to do with Chavez and Maduro seizing and shutting down private enterprise just to prop the oil industry that they eventually ran into the ground.
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  122.  @ishitunot5152  Only because it adopted capitalism in the early 1980's to avoid the fate of its fellow communist neighbors, Cambodia and North Korea.
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  123.  @ishitunot5152  True. It may have adopted capitalism to get its economy going, but it's still very much socialist to the core as the state still controls the economy and just about everything else. Even Marx and Lenin admitted that capitalism is the better system in the end as socialism/communism on its own is not a revenue-generator.
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  124. That's if they know how to grow vegetables or are legally allowed to without getting their crops seized.
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  125.  @dionysus649  No. They're being starved by their own government they voted for.
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  126. Apparently not. They're just waiting on Maduro to toss them a few crumbs off his table, or should I say rations?
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  127. How? The government own the land. And most can't anyway, even if they wanted to.
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  128. Sources please!
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  129. But there no jobs there plus the commutes are long.
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  130. Maybe when Maduro stops chasing out the most skilled, productive and intelligent and seizing everything they worked for in the name of "social justice."
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  131. Just ask Black people.
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  132.  @ranitanner4928  But foreign speculators make up little more than 1% of the total immigrant population. Even if we taxed the crap out of them, it still won't make any difference. The real problem lies with the local government and the restrictions that keep housing supply low.
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  133. The US and the UK are not responsible for Venezuela's food policies. You need to take that issue up with Nicolas Maduro.
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  134. Exactly.
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  135. City mayors.
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  136. Women are allowed to exist there only as maids and breeding machines.
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  137. Actually this is socialism as those dozens of nations across Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe have all practiced.
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  138. Namely leftists.
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  139. It is a utopia. Namely for socialist government bureaucrats and the well-connected.
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  140.  @derricklovell  Maintenance.
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  141. Better question: How about the mismanagement, the ineptitude and the never-ending victim-playing by Maduro and the gang?
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  142. You mean the Venezuelan government. And the average Venezuelan who voted for this.
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  143. So are political ideologies like the one Iran's backers, Russia and China, was famous for.
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  144. But the oil reserves are now useless due to mismanagement and neglect by Chavez and Maduro chasing out the executives and skilled labor in favor of political stooges, not investing in infrastructure upgrades. Instead, with the oil profits, they blew it all on buying votes from the poor and illiterate voter-base.
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  145.  @hmmmmmmm8412  Or they don't bother using them.
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  146. Public services =/= socialism. Try state-controlled economies.
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  147. But the people of the country enabled them by their inability and unwillingness to take responsibility for their own lives always wanting someone else to take care of them.
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  148. Despite the results being more or less the same, this is socialism.
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  149. Exactly. And also to drown out the local demographics. Liberal left-wing styled gerrymandering.
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  150. You mean the Netherlands.
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  151. Britain's hungry and homeless problem is largely local. Venezuela's hungry and homeless national is national. Big difference!
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  152.  @Appleriver3  It has plenty to do with socialism.
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  153. But Gary = Detroit 2.0.
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  154. Like Eastern Europe?
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  155. They actually do have an idea. From the very same Venezuelan government that's starving them, because they shut down all the producers.
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  156. If not that then anyone that promises them free stuff for all.
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  157.  @WorldTraveller0001  But Barrie is part of the GTA.
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  158. And modeling.
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  159.  @SageGamersX  Yes it did. It's just that the Mugabe regime proved to be wolves in sheep's clothing.
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  160. LMAO. NO. China's economy is strong due to Deng's capitalist reforms and Bill Clinton shipping America's jobs over.
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  161.  Abraham Shekelbergstien  Not on the same scale.
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  162. Nope. It's largely confined to certain parts of various US cities while what's happening in Venezuela is nationwide.
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  163. Venezuela is not war-ravaged. It's far-left politics-ravaged.
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  164. Venezuela is not one of them. Venezuela imploded on its own.
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  165. Why are you waiting on someone else to stop this?
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  166.  jojofromtx  Public service and social programs =/= socialism.
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  167. Because protestors are disappeared.
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  168. Agreed.
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  169. Absolute power corrupts.
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  170. Not it's not. The only people living off of Ramen noodles are neckbeards that live in their mom's basement playing XBox One all day.
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  171. Only to go broke and the people hungry by the end of the month.
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  172. The problem is in socialism. This is what happens when you cede all power to the state.
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  173. How do you do that in a country that killed off the private sector along with the entrepreneurs and successful business-owners in the name of "social justice?"
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  174. Stop the sanctions and what? Enrich the Venezuelan military as the goods still won't get to the people anyway?
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  175.  @nateskywalker3571  Feminism is destructive.
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  176. It's easy to have empathy when it's not at your own expense.
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  177.  @yashnanaidoo7556  The same corrupt government that Venezuelans themselves voted for? What you're seeing here is a corrupt government elected by an equally corrupt populace.
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  178.  @LuisFernandez-cz8ob  No. It's called mismanagement and incompetence.
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  179. Because they benefit from it?
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  180. How about remove zoning restrictions and increase supply?
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  181. Iran is not starving.
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  182. Socialism is state-organized crime. Socialism in Venezuela is working exactly as intended.
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  183. Leftism and Islam are mutual allies.
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  184. LMAO. Like which? Those capitalist welfare states that the left loves to point at as proof of socialism's success?
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  185. Hardly. How come Iran isn't starving?
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  186. <Maduro's ideas for an economy are supposed to help homeless and hungry females, instead they are sitting duck> And how is that going to work without a decent private sector to establish a tax base to fund programs to help said homeless and hungry females? Something that Chavez destroyed on the way to making Venezuela an oil-dependent country.
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  187. That's because Africa is bad. And regardless of "Babylon system" misdeeds, Mugabe is the face of plenty things wrong with post-colonial Africa including the leadership. And people like you excusing him isn't helping Africa move forward just because you have some personal, albeit legitimate, beef with the former colonizers.
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  188. LOL. Sure, tankie!
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  189. Chavez and Maduro.
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  190. What about the stupid horny woman that can't keep her legs closed?
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  191.  @bri1085  Zimbabwe is not a capitalist country and has been ran by socialists since 1980. And many of the other 3rd world countries are barely a generation removed from their experience with socialism.
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  192. No. Thank Chavez and Maduro for reaffirming what Thatcher and Churchill long said about socialism.
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  193. China and North Korea = communist holdouts.
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  194. LOL. No. And China scrapped its 1-child policy in 2017 to save its demographics.
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  195. Maybe so, but Venezuela has just shown once again that socialism is the worse of the two. Concern for our fellow humans or a slave to the collective usually the state devoid of anything of his/her own?
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  196. So?
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  197. South has nothing on Haiti or Somalia.
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  198.  @UnclePutte  Not really.
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  199. @LordSear1982 Maybe it's because this is of Venezuela's own doing?
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  200.  Black Obsidian  Too bad if left up to women, civilization = dead on arrival.
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  201. Forget visiting. They need to go live there like the average Venezuelan.
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  202. Not really. That's just the standard excuse leftist 3rd-world government give for their failure to live up to their free ___ for all promises.
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  203. Oh please! The only people the Venezuelan government care about giving resources back to are themselves and their political allies.
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  204. Why?
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  205. Tell Maduro to reinstate commercial farming.
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  206. And they just recently did away with it because now it's messing up their demographics.
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  207. <In poor countries is really difficult.> Due to bad governments and underdeveloped economies.
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  208.  @fahoodie1852  Yes it is socialism. And in Venezuela, it's just doing its usual socialist thing.
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  209. <due to the Government's need for people to work longer> You mean men as women get to retire earlier.
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  210.  @jamiev3908  How do you get a job in a country with a non-existent job market?
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  211.  @tcritt  As in government bureaucrats own the means of production and the real workers are at their mercy.
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  212. It looks like you don't know much about socialism either. Since when did basic infrastructure and public services = socialism or socialist policies?
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  213.  @Appleriver3  It has everything to do with the government.
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  214. @DAN Yes it is true.
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  215.  @choreboy988  Nah. Most liberals are communism's useful idiots as described by Vladimir Lenin.
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  216. Because handouts/charity has never and will never get people out of poverty. And long-term, it creates dependency, and eventual slavery as the poor loses the ability and desire to help themselves and become at the mercy of their benefactors.
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  217. And a Russia-founded ruling party.
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  218. No. Venezuelan socialism in action.
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  219. Isn't Flint yet another Democrat-ran shithole?
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  220.  @simonesimone1101  But men are the first to suffer as they're the most able to fend for themselves.
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  221. Maybe so, but it still won't stop people from squandering it and trying to get more than they need.
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  222. Socialism and bad economics go hand in hand.
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  223. Learn some French first.
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  224. And power.
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  225. Socialism and its delusions of grandeur.
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  226. No they can't, because the government is part of the reason why this is a thing in the first place.
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  227. Namely in places few people want to live.
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  228. But how come it hasn't happened anywhere besides Venezuela on a similar scale?
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  229. I blame them especially if they voted for and supported the governments responsible for why they ended up having to flee in the first place. Letting them in the country just so they can vote for the same kind of politicians and policies that bankrupted their home countries is foolish.
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  230. Maduro, Chavez's daughter and the gang are the rich.
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  231. Unfortunately, the less fortunate of Venezuela were selfish enough to vote for a government that promised them free stuff even if it means that their supposedly well-off neighbors get robbed and the country goes bankrupt in the process.
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  232. This is not America's problem. Take it up with the people that run Mongolia.
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  233. How about remove Venezuelan government control then see the people recover?
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  234. WTF you mean should?
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  235. Hard to do that when the government controls the food supply.
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  236.  @vforvendetta60  LOL @ Thomas Sankara. The only reason he's considered a great humanitarian is because he didn't live long enough to run Burkina Faso to the ground like his killer and right-hand man Blaise Compaore did or his contemporaries like Mengistu Haile Mariam, Siad Barre, Robert Mugabe, Mathieu Kerekou and Julius Nyerere.
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  237.  @mentoslat6140  Like Oprah Winfery and every other semi-famous rapper?
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  238.  @KindCountsDeb3773  It is socialism. It achieved its "classlessness" by killing off the middle class and confiscating their property as advocated by Karl Marx.
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  239. <Where are the welfare for the poor and needy?> There's no money to fund it because the once-profitable oil industry collapsed and the private sector it used to rely on for taxes have been decimated by price controls and property-seizures. <Where have the country's money gone to?> The bank accounts of PSUV elites and the Chavez family. <Why are there no food supplies at the supermarket?> Chavez and Maduro seized and shut down all the factories and farms. And whatever food (imported) is available, it is controlled by the Maduro via the military.
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  240. But Venezuelans are not quite legally allowed to farm.
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  241. Sweden hasn't had socialism since the 1970's when it went all but completely bankrupt.
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  242. That would be the GTA.
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  243. Can we start with you?
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  244. Um. No. The Earth doesn't need saving as it's not going anywhere.
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  245. For everyone except her, her family and comrades.
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  246. Canada is one of onl3 countries in the world where private healthcare is banned. The other 2 are communist regimes, Cuba and North Korea.
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  247.  Black Obsidian  Care to name even 1 successful women-led society?
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  248.  @sharsasuke01  They know what socialism is. It's just that they're too embarrassed to admit they prefer the USSR/Eastern European/Chinese/Cambodian/Chinese/North Korean model.
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  249.  @Pugetwitch  That is what true socialism is as it has been practiced since Lenin. State, oops! I mean collective control.
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  250. Since when was Los Angeles a country?
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  251. Because you probably expect to hear it from CNN, MSNBC or some other left-wing media outlet.
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  252. Exactly.
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  253.  @emilegriffith1473  Easy to say that when you're on the wrong end of the enslavement.
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  254. Except the ruling class and the well-connected.
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  255. Look no further than the Black community for what Democrats have planned for America.
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  256. Venezuela has been independent since 1811. Spain doesn't owe Venezuela a thing.
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  257. This is socialism and far-left corruption.
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  258. Who make up 80% of the population.
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  259. State-controlled economy.
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  260. But state-run economies suck even more.
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  261. Because politicians are home and property-owners themselves. So are most of their voter-base.
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  262. The sanctions started in 2017. Venezuela's collapse started in 2014.
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  263. Or have a government tell them what to do and how much they're allowed to have?
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  264. Only to get your crops seized by the government?
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  265. Pretty much.
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  266. Mostly because no one really wants to live in Alberta.
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  267.  @theknowall2232  Don't believe the MSM, but believe in Maduro, a typical socialist POS?
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  268. And watch the country go bankrupt like it did in the 1970's under their leadership.
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  269.  G  Or an MPLA lackey.
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  270. <not the revolution.> Yes the revolution. That revolution is why Venezuela is no longer able to support itself while reducing itself to being oil-dependent.
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  271.  @MrOBalert  So far, it's the Persian Gulf countries.
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  272. Greed, sloth, pride, etc.
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  273. And both of them are ran by leftists.
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  274.  @annieblumentritt9518  Sanctions have little to do with why Venezuela is broke. The oil industry collapsing, the decimation of private enterprise and local production, etc. did far more damage to Venezuela.
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  275. In the bank accounts of the Chavistas.
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  276. How? Private gardening is banned there.
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  277. Meh. it's always better to live in abundance than destitution. In the lady's case, state-imposed destitution.
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  278. But the evil plaguing the land is from within, though.
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  279. Hardly. Iran is doing better in spite of the sanctions. Ditto for Russia.
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  280.  @frankgarrett9500  Pride. They think they have all the answers for what ails the world.
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  281. But you might have to do without basic utilities and access to basic goods and services while living in isolation.
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  282.  @gerri577  And neither is Maduro and his comrades.
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  283.  @justathought973  This has plenty to do with socialism. You need to follow your own advice and lay off the far-left so-called alternative media.
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  284. Hardly. And Maduro was already doing the job long before Trump even considered running for President.
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  285.  @jacob.g.l1592  Since when was Canada a socialist country?
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  286. Venezuela's food problem has nothing to do with corporations and plenty to do with the Venezuelan government's quest for power at all costs.
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  287. In all fairness, Apartheid overstayed its welcome and had to go.
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  288. Bartering only works if you have something of value to barter. Otherwise, you're SOL.
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  289. But most of Canada is uninhabitable. And the only inhabitable places are along the Canada-US border.
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  290.  @antonnnn464  <It's even cheaper in Atlantic provinces> But with far fewer jobs and amenities. There's a reason why many of their young move out.
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  291. Thanks to Venezuela for starving the people with its state-expropriation policies.
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  292. And since when did socialists care about the people aside from exploiting them for power?
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  293. No. Venezuelan ineptitude and corruption are the cause of this.
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  294. But those Southern hicks have better weather which makes living in a trailer somewhat bearable.
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  295. No. Try local zoning restrictions.
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  296.  @GANTZ100pts  Just like the black market.
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  297. @ BicBoi Yes they do! Or at least once did when Kim Jong-Un's grandfather ran the show.
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  298.  @ten_tego_teges  They barely have any young people to hold hostage.
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  299. Mostly corrupt national politicians that some of the people voted for. Who would have thought that running the skilled, productive and successful out of the country had negative consequences for its long-term viability and sustainability?
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  300.  @bigbrothersyouth6040  LOL. Of course they wouldn't know. Their idea of a "good" leader is someone who promises them free stuff without much regard for where the money is going to come from to pay for it or how it's going to be gotten (often by theft from the productive among them).
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  301. LOL Still making excuses for an ideology that was DOA.
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  302. Because Maduro ran out of free stuff to bribe the people with after the oil industry collapsed and he and Chavez have long done away with the private sector.
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  303. @P Pierre And only soy-boys take offense to that term.
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  304.  @Appleriver3  It has plenty to do with socialism.
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  305. Yes it is a privilege as no one is owed food and no one is obligated to give food. Learn to earn!
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  306.  @minigaangsta  In other words, children are their social safety net.
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  307. So far, Venezuela is one of the better off countries unlike its neighbor to the south, Brazil.
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  308.  @Bronco57  Venezuela has a lower case and death count, all things considering, ignorant!
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  309. Since when was BBC right-wing?
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  310. But that doesn't stop greed.
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  311. Just like you are apparently as you have no problem believing whatever the Venezuelan government and its state-owned tells you.
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  312. Subsidized by England. By the way, social programs =/=socialism.
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  313.  @peterrooke5336  Or in this current case, Chinese investments?
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  314.  @KB-dj2cg  Exactly.
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  315. Cuba has military presence in Venezuela.
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  316. South Africa is already dictatorship of the proletariat. Too late.
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  317. Exactly.
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  318.  @sinistertantrum7653  She's actually American from Puerto Rico.
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  319. Like the Ukraine?
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  320. Better question: where are you? And why don't you share your hard-earned bread with the poor?
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  321. Literally speaking.
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  322. No they weren't.
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  323. No. Another country destroyed by socialism just like its neighbor to the east it barely acknowledges, Guyana.
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  324. Living off of US military largesse.
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  325. The Venezuelan government? LMAO.
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  326.  @colezee7640  Not all working people are honest.
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  327. It is socialism's fault. And the US doesn't owe Venezuela jack s___.
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  328. And pray that the government doesn't come to seize it.
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  329. No. Venezuela is yet another socialist casualty.
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  330. And there are no honest citizens either as they happily voted for those politicians in hopes for free stuff and easy living.
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  331. No. Sanctions are not responsible for Venezuela's lack of domestic production due to Chavez and Maduro seizing and decimating private enterprise while reducing the country to oil-dependency in which they blew the revenues on buying votes from the poor leaving infrastructure to decay and crumble.
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  332. First, Venezuela need to ditch socialism and reinstate free enterprise.
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  333. Because apparently, it wasn't practiced by the right kind of people.
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  334.  @huntingfortingles  Thanks to the government and the policies they voted for.
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  335. Those people are not BBC News's responsibility.
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  336.  @ng4804  What works in the US doesn't work in Venezuela, because Venezuela's private sector is borderline non-existent for women to advance themselves in due to Maduro's oh-so-typically socialist policies of central planning and state expropriation of any and everything private.
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  337. Where? I'm in Canada and the shelves are still full.
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  338. Because Venezuelans turned in their guns a long time ago under Chavez.
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  339. Well, in all fairness, every other country that did business with Russia ended up poorer and worse off in the long run. Ethiopia, Somalia, North Korea, Moldova, (East) Germany, all the ex-Soviet Bloc Central Asian countries, etc.
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  340. France is already somewhat socialist.
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  341. No it's not.
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  342. And that's how social democracy comes undone.
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  343. Due to ignorant parents who voted for frauds and thieves that went on to run their country into the ground.
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  344. It's Venezuela. Are they even legally allowed to without getting their crops seized in the process?
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  345. And so are the people of Venezuela who voted for it oly to find out the hard way that the joke is on them.
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  346.  @bruh1k63  And on the casting couch of her "superiors."
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  347. So why aren't you out there helping them?
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  348.  @ishitunot5152  Thanks to capitalism implemented by Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970's.
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  349. LOL Such leaders never existed as most of them were opportunists and aspiring oppressors they often turn out to be.
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  350. Venezuela doesn't belong to you.
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  351. And that Maduro diet.
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  352. Venezuela is a functionally socialist country. <socialism is when the government owns everything and EQUALLY distributes the profits.> Namely among PSUV members.
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  353. And further enrich the Venezuelan government?
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  354. Like Guyana in the 80's.
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  355. But the women are not being raped as they opened their legs by choice.
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  356. Yet he has no problem being Russia's puppet.
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  357. Why don't you give them some of YOUR money?
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  358. And another socialist failure at that.
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  359. What about the food and medical aid that got seized at the border by the Venezuelan military on orders from Maduro?
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  360. Venezuela can't buy food, because its currency that it voluntarily devalued is worthless and mismanagement rendered its oil refineries inoperable.
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  361. Not in Venezuela's case as its starvation is due to resource-confiscation and mismanagement.
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  362. No. Maduro is the one doing the starving of the country. If anything, he's Latin America's Robert Mugabe.
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  363.  @MoreFire853  Public infrastructure and services =/= socialism. Try command economies. <Socialism does not create dictators> Tell that to Madagascar, Ghana, Benin, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Guinea, Mozambique, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, USSR, (East) Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Mongolia, North Korea, Laos, China, Burma (Myanmar), India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba, Guyana and Grenada. <USA clearly had a dictator in Trump.> LOL. Spoken like a Democrat-voter.
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  364.  @libconservative3481  <and yet some of their citizens go the US for treatment due long ques in the system (e.g. NHS in the UK)> Also in Canada while vehemently opposing private healthcare.
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  365.  @libconservative3481  And people like him are the biggest cheerleaders for socialism.
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  366. No it didn't. Who told Maduro to seize and shut down the private enterprise demonizing the entrepreneurs and successful business-owners responsible for the prosperity the country once enjoyed? Who told him to let the oil infrastructure crumble after running out the investors and skilled personnel in favor of his political stooges? Who told him to blow all the oil revenue on buying votes from the poor as opposed to re-investing it? And who told him to get Cuban military help?
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  367. Namely due to adopting capitalism in the early 1908's by Deng Xiaoping to avoid another mass starvation and collapse.
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  368. Because Canada is still a major improvement over whichever countries people are fleeing from.
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  369. Um. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge was the reason why Cambodia was poor as they killed off all their best, brightest and productive citizens wholesale and is now currently ran by a guy who once worked for them.
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  370. You can thank the UK, Canada and the US for that. And all 3 had right-leaning governments in charge.
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  371. No. Canada is rather underpopulated.
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  372. State seizure of private enterprise?
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  373.  @realdeal5712  Equal rights only when it suits them.
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  374. But they voluntarily chose to work in Kuwait.
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  375. Case in point: Cuba and Cambodia.
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  376. Venezuela killed off its diversified economy a long time ago under Chavez.
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  377. Pretty much.
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  378.  @simo8924  Capitalist welfare states =/= socialist. Why don'y you just admit that what you really want is centrally-planned economies, one-party rule and the populace at the government's mercy?
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  379.  @WineAndWits  Democratic socialism is exactly what got Venezuela in its current mess. The people voted for their own subjugation.
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  380.  @wilcoxwilcox3272  All of which have been seized and/or shut down by Maduro making Venezuela functionally socialist.
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  381. Maybe because in the US, the currency is still worth something for now. And citizens are not standing in long breadlines waiting for government-rationed food much less starving. And society hasn't collapsed to the point they have to fear for their lives. The problem is largely local while Venezuela's problem is national due to the national government being the culprit behind it.
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  382. Enabled and voted for by an equally corrupt and ignorant people at the bottom just looking for a free ride.
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  383. Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro.
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  384. Um. No. This is a made-in-Venezuela problem.
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  385. The poor were greedy enough to vote for governments that promised them free stuff by stealing from the productive responsible for the prosperity the country once enjoyed.
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  386. LOL.
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  387. How come none of the Arab Gulf countries are poor?
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  388. Not in a socialist country where you can get thrown in jail, have your things confiscated and barely even allowed to move within the country.
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  389. The Venezuelan government is the cause of the problem.
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  390. But the problem is Calgary is located in Alberta, a province no one really wants to live in.
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  391. No it doesn't happen all over the world as most of the world don't have the food policies that Venezuela currently has giving the government 100% control of the food so it can feed its supporters while starving everyone else.
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  392. The Venezuelan people are not Trump's duty. Take that up with Maduro.
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  393. <Here in Venezuela, where 95% of the population is poor can barely afford to eat, while the rich live like kings,> Namely Maduro, the Chavez family and Chavista gang.
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  394. Inflation thanks to the government.
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  395.  @mariuszfurman6531  That's probably because you're a government lackey.
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  396. In Maduro's bank account.
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  397. That's not global warming. That's just standard desert weather.
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  398.  @womanofgod2948  And women are naive.
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  399.  @bobs_toys  Very much.
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  400. That's what a general lack of human capital will do to a society.
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  401. Canada doesn't have many cities people would consider desirable aside from Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
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  402.  @ayojoy1443  You mean power. But yeah!
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  403. And greedy people that voted for it only to get taken for suckers in the end.
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  404. No it's not. Bolsonaro didn't seize all the food and have Brazil starving like Maduro has done with Venezuela.
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  405. No. They wouldn't be begging for food had Chavez and Maduro decimated the private sector and commercial farming with price controls and property-seizures having the country depend on oil and imports to compensate for the lack of domestic production.
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  406. Joe Biden was to the Taliban what Jimmy Carter was to the Iranian Revolution. Enabler and facilitator.
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  407.  Carlos Baez  LOL. Only thanks to the US's money and infrastructure. And yet even with that, Puerto Rico damn near went bankrupt.
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  408.  @barbara1904  As in the government corruption that socialism and communism enabled.
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  409. Ditto for AOC. Like every other socialist, she came from a privileged background.
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  410. How? They traded away self-sufficiency for free government stuff if it isn't already illegal to farm.
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  411. So, you rather live like a North Korean?
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  412.  @mikejones3863  Canada a socialist country? You obviously are not from here. Canada is anything but socialist. Even the most left-leaning province isn't close to being socialist.
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  413.  @mikejones3863  Free healthcare, free education, free daycare =/= socialist. We don't have a state-controlled economy and a heavily restricted private sector if it exists at all.
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  414. No. Venezuela is yet another country making the long list of countries ruined by socialism.
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  415.  @xXWorldgamefunXx  LOL. So how did the Soviet Union, China and North Korea manage to starve when they operated independent of the markets?
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  416. Like the average North Korean?
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  417.  @MM-ue4ol  <By the way socialism is not all bad > Actually it is all bad if you value freedom and individuality. <but it will not get a chance in capitalist world,> It had 104+ years of chances and blew every last one.
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  418. <No social housing, > You have only Jean Chretien and the Liberal Party of Canada to thank for that.
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  419. The report is sympathetic to socialism and doesn't want to admit that its beloved system was the cause of Venezuela's current troubles.
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  420.  @deconstructionreclaimingth5885  Yet Zimbabwe is poorer overall than both Nigeria and South Africa.
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  421. Apparently.
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  422. Jamaica sold itself out to China.
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  423. Hardly.
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  424. That and commercial farming is outlawed.
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  425.  @tribinaaux4043  That same private sector that have long since been shut down and seized by the government?
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  426.  John Mitchell  And much of India's poverty is due to taking the socialist route post-independence that stagnated the country until it opened itself to the free market in the early 1990's.
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  427. But has been rendered useless due to mismanagement and neglect by the Chavista regime.
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  428. @Melon Sauce With what land?
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  429. Or greedily invest the entire county's wealth into buying votes from the poor masses to stay in power.
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  430. And Chavez's daughter is the richest person in the country.
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  431. South Africa = Venezuela without the uber-dictatorship.
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  432. Because your Founding Fathers cared about economic development and allowing people to prosper on their own keeping what they earned rightfully as opposed to other countries all too happy to give up their freedom for free stuff thinking it's the government's job to take care of them for life as in the case of Venezuela.
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  433. No it can't. And what's even more unsustainable is a population full of lazy and dependent people.
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  434. Justin's daddy got the ball rolling.
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