Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Venezuela: Mothers giving away babies - BBC News" video.

  1. Nah. It's the Venezuelan government.
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  2. Let me guess. Maduro is an innocent victim, right?
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  3. 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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  4.  @withastickangrywhiteman2822  Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Il-Sung, etc.
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  5.  @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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  6.  @keniacobacci1873  A left-wing rag. GTFO indeed.
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  7. In the case of Venezuela, Maduro, Chavez's family and the PSUV are the 1%.
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10.  @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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  11.  @sizanogreen  Compassion? Or virtue-signalling.
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  12. Birth control is the least of its issues. Venezuela's #1 issue is the Maduro government.
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  13. The US done nothing to the Guyanas. And Guyana didn't need outside interference for its socialist experiment to fail.
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  14.  @nemo320  No. Venezuela is functionally socialist. And its leader sells resources to Russia, Cuba and China.
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  15. Does that include you?
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  16. Bureaucracy and not enough educated and killed people to do much with them.
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  17. 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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  18. No. Try Chavez and Maduro.
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  19. 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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  20.  @psauer1234  Except state jobs which can only be gotten by nepotism and patronage.
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  21.  @dionysus649  No. They're being starved by their own government they voted for.
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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. Just ask Black people.
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  25. 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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  26. Exactly.
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  27. It is a utopia. Namely for socialist government bureaucrats and the well-connected.
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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. And modeling.
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  31. 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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  32.  Abraham Shekelbergstien  Not on the same scale.
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  33. Nope. It's largely confined to certain parts of various US cities while what's happening in Venezuela is nationwide.
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  34. Venezuela is not war-ravaged. It's far-left politics-ravaged.
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  35. Why are you waiting on someone else to stop this?
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  36. Only to go broke and the people hungry by the end of the month.
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  37. 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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  38. It's easy to have empathy when it's not at your own expense.
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  39.  @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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  40. Socialism is state-organized crime. Socialism in Venezuela is working exactly as intended.
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  41. <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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  42. No. Thank Chavez and Maduro for reaffirming what Thatcher and Churchill long said about socialism.
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  43.  Black Obsidian  Too bad if left up to women, civilization = dead on arrival.
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  44.  @jamiev3908  How do you get a job in a country with a non-existent job market?
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  45. 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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  46. Isn't Flint yet another Democrat-ran shithole?
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  47.  @simonesimone1101  But men are the first to suffer as they're the most able to fend for themselves.
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  48. Maybe so, but it still won't stop people from squandering it and trying to get more than they need.
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  49. Socialism and its delusions of grandeur.
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  50. 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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  51. WTF you mean should?
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  52.  @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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  53. But Venezuelans are not quite legally allowed to farm.
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  54. Can we start with you?
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  55.  Black Obsidian  Care to name even 1 successful women-led society?
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  56. Because you probably expect to hear it from CNN, MSNBC or some other left-wing media outlet.
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  57. Or have a government tell them what to do and how much they're allowed to have?
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  58. Only to get your crops seized by the government?
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  59. <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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  60. And both of them are ran by leftists.
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  61. How? Private gardening is banned there.
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  62. Hardly. Iran is doing better in spite of the sanctions. Ditto for Russia.
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  63. 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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  64. Thanks to Venezuela for starving the people with its state-expropriation policies.
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  65. 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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  66. Since when was BBC right-wing?
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  67. But that doesn't stop greed.
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  68. Better question: where are you? And why don't you share your hard-earned bread with the poor?
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  69. The Venezuelan government? LMAO.
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  70. And pray that the government doesn't come to seize it.
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  71. 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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  72.  @huntingfortingles  Thanks to the government and the policies they voted for.
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  73. Those people are not BBC News's responsibility.
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  74.  @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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  75. Due to ignorant parents who voted for frauds and thieves that went on to run their country into the ground.
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  76.  @bruh1k63  And on the casting couch of her "superiors."
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  77.  @ishitunot5152  Thanks to capitalism implemented by Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970's.
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  78. Venezuela doesn't belong to you.
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  79. 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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  80. And further enrich the Venezuelan government?
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  81. But the women are not being raped as they opened their legs by choice.
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  82. Why don't you give them some of YOUR money?
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  83. Not in Venezuela's case as its starvation is due to resource-confiscation and mismanagement.
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  84. 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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  85. Case in point: Cuba and Cambodia.
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  86. Venezuela killed off its diversified economy a long time ago under Chavez.
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  87. Pretty much.
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  88. Enabled and voted for by an equally corrupt and ignorant people at the bottom just looking for a free ride.
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  89. 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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  90. How come none of the Arab Gulf countries are poor?
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  91. The Venezuelan government is the cause of the problem.
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  92. The Venezuelan people are not Trump's duty. Take that up with Maduro.
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  93.  @womanofgod2948  And women are naive.
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  94. That's what a general lack of human capital will do to a society.
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  95.  @ayojoy1443  You mean power. But yeah!
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  96. 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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  97. No. Venezuela is yet another country making the long list of countries ruined by socialism.
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  98.  @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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  99.  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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  100. But has been rendered useless due to mismanagement and neglect by the Chavista regime.
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  101. 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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  102. Justin's daddy got the ball rolling.
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