Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Special Report: Inside Venezuela" video.

  1.  @MagicMike_101  No one in Iran is starving.
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  2. Or North Korea.
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  3.  @jorgeortiz4485  And once upon a time, Venezuela was the wealthiest country in South America.
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  4. Their narcissism, ego and delusions of grandeur know no bounds.
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  5. Pretty much.
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  6. Exactly.
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  7. Exactly.
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  8. By any means necessary.
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  9. Iran would like a word with you on that.
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  10.  @xzqzq  Yes. Cuba gets free oil in exchange.
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  11.  @danhilbert6163  No. Actually socialism calls for the downfall of capitalism. The abolition of private property, workers seizing the means of production from their bosses, socialism needing to be worldwide since it cannot operate in the presence of capitalist competition, etc.
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  12.  @buttbuttson737  Socialists claim that socialism cannot succeed until capitalism is abolished so there's nothing to undermine it. Hence, the complaints about outside interference.
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  13. <It is a lot harder when they are unable to arm themselves.> Because they happily gave up their gun rights to Chavez.
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  14.  @HC-wo2tz  <He should've, but I understand that Chavez did in fact strip wealthy landowners of their property and gave it to the workers. > Who then mismanaged it to ruin. Anyone can own the means of production, but not everyone knows how to operate said means of production in an efficient and productive way that ensures viability, profitability and sustainability.
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  15. He nationalized it and let it crumble beyond repair due to mismanagement and corruption. Never mind the fact he fired all the skilled workers and replaced them with political friends and bootlickers.
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  16. Communism/socialism is even dumber.
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  17. The story of Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.
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  18.  @Avaricumstudios  Iran is a theocracy.
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  19. Pretty much.
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  20. LOL. Spain hasn't had anything to do with Venezuela in the past 211 years.
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  21. Or what Pol Pot did to the average Cambodian?
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  22. And to Cuba to keep the population in line.
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  23. LOL. No. Chavez coasted off of high oil prices while destroying the local economy and letting the oil infrastructure collapse due to mismanagement and corruption after firing all the skilled employees in favor of political friends and supporters. He was just fortunate enough to die before SHTF on the oil prices with Maduro left holding the bag.
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  24. They failed to do so, because they were too busy undermining and sabotaging it with price controls, high taxes and minimum wage and punitive regulations.
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  25.  @dsbougie  Well, democratic socialism bankrupted Greece and Jamaica.
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  26. Venezuela collapsed 3 years before Trump took office.
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  27. <In Venezuela that doesn’t happens. There, everyone has a place to live and everyone has something to eat.> LOL. They don't have much to eat, hence why they're eating rotten meat and zoo animals. And the place they have to live lacks basic utilities like electricity for their AC's as some die of heatstroke.
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  28. Only to loot the country themselves. How else do you explain Chavez dying a billionaire and his daughter being the richest person in the country?
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  29. Like Chile and Costa Rica?
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  30. Or give them free helicopter rides.
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  31. They used to have one until the people gave it up in exchange for free stuff from Chavez.
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  32. <This is not a result of Chavez economics> Yes it is. And Chavez was just fortunate enough to die before he could see them blow up in his face.
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  33. It's Maduro using the poor as a bargaining chip.
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  34. The high oil prices at the time allowed Chavez to put up a front for Venezuela prospering.
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  35. Socialism earned its bad rep.
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  36. LMAO. True.
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  37. That would be the Venezuelan government as the people are barely even allowed to make an honest living in their own country.
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  38. Exactly.
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  39.  @HC-wo2tz  <It is a quote that demonstrated his ignorance of socialism in the Eastern Bloc.> Not really as most of the Eastern Bloc were Soviet client states and collapsed when the Soviets stopped supporting them. Albania and Yugoslavia pretty much died with Hoxha and Broz. <the poverty of India> Was largely due to socialism it adopted after independence that stifled it for decades until the economy was liberalized in 1993.
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  40.  @sonnytanod8862  But it still reigns true.
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  41.  @justanothergoy5900  Thanks to the oil price collapse and Venezuela no longer having a thriving private sector to soften its fall to rock-bottom because Chavez decimated it.
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  42. What Republicans? When Venezuela's economy collapsed in 2014, the Democrats were in charge.
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  43. LOL. Tankie, please!
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  44. Pretty much.
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  45. <The country prospered under Chavez (who was repeatedly re-elected by the people there in fair elections) because he kicked the U.S. oil companies out, focused on it's state-owned company (Citgo) and distributed the oil revenue to basic social programs. > While letting the infrastructure deteriorate and crumble beyond repair and undercutting the private sector and whatever diversified economy it had.
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  46.  @Nameless-qe9hu  Yes they do. Let them lie in the bed they made for themselves.
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  47. Like every other self-respecting country.
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  48.  @ciaranryan5265  So they can live without much food or consistent electricity. Never mind a sustainable local economy should the oil money run out and the prices collapse.
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  49.  @HC-wo2tz  Yes they will. And Chavez became exactly the same wealthy he chased out of the country.
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  50. And sanctions via Maduro's ego and mismanagement.
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  51. Just like every other socialist.
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  52. Exactly.
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  53. Dictatorship + socialism = poverty and chaos for everyone except the government.
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  54. And the whole Hollywood Left.
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  55. Reinstate the private sector without interference from the Venezuelan government.
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