Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Venezuela grapples with endless crisis • FRANCE 24 English" video.

  1.  @davet9708  While becoming a basket-case in the process through mismanagement and oppressing its own people. LOL
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  2. Not really. Much of Venezuela's suffering was of its own making.
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  3.  @mikenogozones  And as a matter of fact, Chavez was busy destroying whatever diversified economy Venezuela had.
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  4. Because the oil price collapsed and Maduro was no longer able to keep up the facade.
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  5.  @myztroogeegibson3568  The sanctions came 3 years after Venezuela collapsed. It's not the US's problem that Venezuela decimated whatever local economy it had with price controls, high taxes and nationalizations en route to being oil-dependent. And then when the prices hit rock-bottom, it had nothing to fall back on.
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  6.  @AztecSamurai01  Exactly.
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  7.  @adrianostarks-chaves9256  Exactly.
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  8.  @desmondburnett9286  No. Reinstate the private sector and watch Venezuela grow.. <remove the embargo and watch Venezuela grow.> Like it did in 2014-16?
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  9.  @freedomofpress5605  It is pathetic as Venezuela collapsed well before any sanction was imposed.
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  10. They voted for it.
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  11.  @fillthefeeder  Like Trinidad & Tobago of all places.
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  12.  @markc5025  Nigeria is not quite in the same boat.
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  13. Exacerbated by Chavez and Maduro's wholesale decimation of local production which made the country reliant on imports and high oil prices to pay for them.
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  14.  @desmondburnett9286  <are you forgetting about the embargo and the billions seized by the US and England.> They're of little consequence. Plus, Chavez and Maduro would would have lined their own pockets with it if not piss it all away like they did with the oil revenues.
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  15. Not really as they happily voted for it.
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  16. Exactly.
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  17. First reinstate private enterprise.
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  18. Another victim of socialist folly.
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  19. Because this is what your people voted for. No one is doing anything about it except letting them enjoy it in peace.
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  20. No. Inhuman socialism caused Venezuela's misery.
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  21. Actually, it's 76.6%.
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  22.  @Patriot11111  Due to welfare.
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  23. How about simply reinstating private enterprise and local production?
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  24. The sanctions are the least of Venezuela's problems. Chavez and Maduro crippled whatever ability the country had in feeding and supporting itself.
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  25.  @wahtusy3519  And it no longer has the infrastructural means to put it to use.
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  26. But it doesn't last.
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  27. Only because of the free money.
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  28. They already had such. His name was Hugo Chavez.
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  29. Yet they swear they're self-reliant. LOL
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  30.  @Clairemont7893  These are the people he was trying to help LOL. While bankrupting the country in the process.
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  31. No. Just reinstate the private sector.
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  32. Socialism doesn't work even in places where it was done properly.
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  33. No. Just socialism running its natural course.
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  34. Exactly.
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  35. Nope. Another country ruined by socialism and socialists.
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  36.  @KuromiDarklord  Social democracy is not sustainable. See Western Europe.
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  37.  @alexandermutune6131  But it still wouldn't be a sustainable way of running a country. The Middle East is dependent on US military protection and foreign migrant labor as the locals are too spoiled to work.
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  38. Where Justin Trudeau is trying to do the same.
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  39.  @poncedeoly469  No. Socialism killed the economy. The sanctions are of little consequence.
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  40.  @ggonterriquez213  No it's not.
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  41.  @samc269  LOL
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  42.  @machsimillian14  Yes it does.
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  43. That came well after Venezuela's 21 century socialism ran its course and went bankrupt.
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  44.  @Indiansareallpajeets  No. Venezuela made this.
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  45. Whatever, Chavista!
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  46. America will lift the embargo when Venezuela reinstates the private sector.
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  47. Another leftist-run hellhole.
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  48. That's what Venezuela gets for biting the hand that fed them.
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  49. Interesting indeed.
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  50. Socialism has always been about control and power.
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  51. Yes they do. They got what they voted for.
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  52. Exactly. Don't forget theft. It's not like socialists were known for fiscal responsibility.
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  53. Maybe Venezuela should reinstate the private sector and shrink the size of government.
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  54. Chavez died of cancer.
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  55. Venezuela collapsed well before any sanction was imposed.
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  56. Not really. Venezuela and Cuba did a much better job of that with price controls and nationalizations destroying the private sector and local production.
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  57.  @DCFunBud  Price controls as in merchants were no longer able to turn in a profit to offset operating costs which negatively affected their ability to re-stock shelves and stay in business. <What do you mean they "did a much better job?"> Chavez and Maduro's policies did far more damage. That's what I mean. The sanctions are of little consequence as Venezuela collapsed well before any sanction was imposed.
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  58. Socialist programs are about controlling people under the guise of helping them further perpetuating poverty.
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  59. Only to piss away the oil wealth on power consolidation via vote-buying, undercutting and bankrupting the local economy setting the country up for failure that Maduro is now responsible for.
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  60. Because they're dependent on them for their day-to-day survival.
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  61. Exactly.
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  62. The blockade is not the reason Venezuela is starving. Chavez and Maduro decimated the local agricultural sector in favor of imports.
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  63.  @freedomofpress5605  Right. When liberators become oppressors.
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  64.  @dominic6055  Socialism is the father of fascism.
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  65. LOL. What sanctions? Venezuela hit rock-bottom 3 years before any sanction was imposed.
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  66. No. They are under attack from Caracas.
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  67.  @Sirjohnwilliamuk  Yes it is. Ever heard of import bans and high tariffs?
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  68. As in state-imposed servitude for the people and power to the political elite.
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  69. It's not that the promises are false. It's just that whatever promise it does deliver on is often short-lived.
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  70.  @hubreydavid7864  LOL. Like Equatorial Guinea?
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  71. Exactly.
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  72.  @HughJass-313  <Used the Oil money to fight against poverty, homelessness, and illiteracy.> While setting the country up for failure.
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  73. Or Michael Moore?
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  74. Chavez died a billionaire.
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  75. And socialism destroys not just economically, but politically and socially.
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  76. Exactly. While undermining the country's ability to feed and support itself.
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  77. <just because they have theirs own ideas of politics.> That happens to have a 104-plus year record of failure. And it failed even in countries that weren't under Western sanctions.
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  78. <have forgotten there old ways of living> That is not sustainable.
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  79.  @machsimillian14  Typical socialist response. I bet you weren't saying that back in 2012 when Chavez was alive and Venezuela prospered from the high oil prices.
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  80.  @machsimillian14  <Poverty had been reduced by extreme metrics.> Only by Chavez throwing money at the problem while decimating whatever diversified economy it had upon making Venezuela oil-dependent. <You cannot have socialist dictators, that takes the power from the people to be able to decide how the government/economy functions. > LOL <That coupled with sanctions by the US, > They weren't imposed until 3 years after the collapse. And also if anything, Venezuela didn't do itself any favors bad-mouthing the very same US that bought its oil and becoming reliant on imports as it no longer had the capacity to produce anything locally.
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  81. Because the government might seize it?
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  82.  @teole6364  Only after the government allowed people to farm for themselves as forced collectivization caused 10's of millions of deaths by starvation.
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  83.  @floxy20  Especially when socialists love to boast about being self-reliant.
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  84. No. Thanks to 21st Century socialism. <They can’t use US$,> Shouldn't have bit the hand that fed them. <they can’t sell their oil,> Because it's of low quality. Plus, they don't have the infrastructure or personnel to refine it locally. <can’t get spare parts medicine and food.> Because Maduro imposed an import ban. <This was a planned crime against the people of Venezuela> Not nearly as much as it is the end result of the socialism they voted for especially when the money runs out.
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  85. Exactly.
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  86. What sanctions? They didn't come until well after Venezuela collapsed and Bush Jr. was long gone from office.
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  87.  @roccocalderone6868  Because Chavez didn't bother to re-invest in the oil industry and just used the revenues to buy votes.
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  88. Like Greece?
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