In Venezuela, the Lights Are Going Out

[bripat9643]

Ah, the joys of socialism, where everything is free. This is what you can expect if you want a Bernie Sanders style government:

In Venezuela, the Lights Are Going Out​

Venezuela is, once again, in the throes of a full-blown electricity crisis. Citizens complain of unannounced blackouts are shutting down factories, forcing shopping malls to close early, and otherwise wreaking havoc on an already-sputtering economy. The crisis is so severe that President Nicolás Maduro has curtailed working hours for government workers. Last week he even extended the Holy Week holiday to reduce power usage.

And Venezuelans are preparing for even worse news. Many are anxiously monitoring the dwindling water supply of the enormous Guri dam, which supplies roughly half of the country’s electricity. Experts are predicting that, as soon as next week, water levels will reach such a low level that the turbines will have to be shut down. If that happens, the electricity crisis will turn into a catastrophe.

As Venezuelans await the fate, they must be wondering whether their country’s electricity supply will outlast its incompetent government. Because even though the imminent shutdown of the Guri dam is the result of a drought, it’s the socialist government’s incompetence — manifested in myriad fashions — that is the root cause of the energy crisis.​

 

[Agit8r]

 

[1stRambo]

Ah, the joys of socialism, where everything is free. This is what you can expect if you want a Bernie Sanders style government:

In Venezuela, the Lights Are Going Out​

Venezuela is, once again, in the throes of a full-blown electricity crisis. Citizens complain of unannounced blackouts are shutting down factories, forcing shopping malls to close early, and otherwise wreaking havoc on an already-sputtering economy. The crisis is so severe that President Nicolás Maduro has curtailed working hours for government workers. Last week he even extended the Holy Week holiday to reduce power usage.

And Venezuelans are preparing for even worse news. Many are anxiously monitoring the dwindling water supply of the enormous Guri dam, which supplies roughly half of the country’s electricity. Experts are predicting that, as soon as next week, water levels will reach such a low level that the turbines will have to be shut down. If that happens, the electricity crisis will turn into a catastrophe.

As Venezuelans await the fate, they must be wondering whether their country’s electricity supply will outlast its incompetent government. Because even though the imminent shutdown of the Guri dam is the result of a drought, it’s the socialist government’s incompetence — manifested in myriad fashions — that is the root cause of the energy crisis.​

Yo, these IDIOTS don`t care? They won`t say nothing until the shit happens, that is how stupid they are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"GTP"

 

[Agit8r]

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He probably paid women to call him that while he licked their stockings.

 

[waltky]

Venezuela is close to declaring a national humanitarian health crisis...

Venezuela seeks foreign medical aid amid health crisis 'genocide'
April 6, 2016 -- Venezuela is closer to declaring a national humanitarian health crisis that would force the ruling government of President Nicolas Maduro to accept foreign medicinal aid.

The Bill to Address the Humanitarian Health Crisis passed the first of two votes in Venezuela's unicameral National Assembly on Tuesday. After a health crisis is declared, Venezuela can then receive medications as a form of aid from other countries, specifically in Latin America and Europe. Venezuela would also be allowed to request assistance from the World Health Organization. José Olivares, president of Venezuela's Commission of Health, introduced the bill during debate and warned that Venezuelans living with HIV and cancer are particularly at risk, also criticizing Maduro and his health minister, Luisana Melo. "In Venezuela the problem is not with pharmacies, the problem of Venezuela is that there are no medications," Olivares said. "I hope you can sleep peacefully, as hundreds of Venezuelans do not sleep peacefully because they can't find their medicines."

Venezuela continues to experience shortages of medicine, lack of food for the sick, shortages of infant formula, increased maternal mortality rates and loss of transplant organs due to power failures. Parliament members belonging to or allied with Maduro's ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, or PSUV, abstained from voting. They said they disagree with what the opposition views is the cause of Venezuela's health crisis.

The Democratic Unity Roundtable, or MUD, opposition coalition blames government inaction for exacerbating the country's health crisis, whereas the PSUV argues the crisis is a symptom of an economic problem. "This humanitarian crisis is an economic emergency you rejected," PSUV's Carmen Meléndez said, referring to an earlier economic emergency decree Maduro established that the MUD-controlled National Assembly rejected. "The deaths hurt us, it hurts us that there are no medicines, but we are going to work together."

Loengri Matheus, member of a party allied to Maduro's PSUV, rejected the bill, stating it "seeks only to bring foreign intervention to Venezuela." "Countries in which there has been a humanitarian crisis declared are those who have lived pandemics such as Ebola," Matheus said. "There must be an extraordinary situation." MUD member Virgilio Ferrer condemned the PSUV's inaction as attempting to "defend the indefensible." "You are committing the largest genocide in the country. Give answers to the people," Ferrer said.

Venezuela seeks foreign medical aid amid health crisis 'genocide'

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Venezuela patients resort to pet medications
August 9, 2015 - Kevin Blanco got a life-saving kidney transplant 15 years ago, but the chronic shortages gripping crisis-hit Venezuela have put his life at risk again.

Faced with the disappearance of prednisone and CellCept, the drugs he needs to take every day to keep his immune system from attacking his kidney as a foreign object, Blanco had to resort to taking veterinary versions designed for pets. "It's a bit humiliating," he said as he brandished a bright pink box of prednisone with a picture of a dog on it, which costs 90 times more than the human version because it does not benefit from government price controls.

Venezuela's Pharmaceutical Federation estimates that 70 percent of medications have disappeared from the shelves in Venezuela as the country struggles through an economic crisis exacerbated by falling prices of its main export, oil. Transplant recipients told AFP that in early July, their immunosuppressant drugs vanished altogether, forcing them to take desperate measures to prevent their bodies from rejecting their vital organs. "When the human version (of prednisone) ran out, everyone started looking for the canine version," said Pharmaceutical Federation president Freddy Ceballos.

Venezuelan transplant recipients say their immunosuppressant drugs have vanished altogether, forcing them to take desperate measures including taking veterinary versions of drugs designed for pets​

But this last resort is "putting people's lives at risk," said Francisco Valencia, the head of a foundation that provides support and free medicine to transplant recipients. Blanco, 47, said his doctor told him taking animal prednisone would be "at your own risk." But, left for a month with no medication, he had little choice until the government health service resumed deliveries of his meds this week.

Natacha Albarran, who received a kidney transplant 12 years ago, also resorted to the veterinary versions of prednisone and CellCept for 23 days. "The doctor told us to go to a store where they sell veterinary drugs, which has the same active ingredient," said the 44-year-old shopkeeper. Leftist President Nicolas Maduro's government, which has not released official figures on the shortages since February 2014, denies that prednisone supplies ran out, saying a shipment of 1.2 million tablets arrived from Cuba last month.

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[paulitician]

Yeah, where's Sean Penn now? Betcha he's got plently of electricity in all his luxurious mansions and villas. And i don't see him over there handing out cash or buying supplies for folks. He's completely abandoned his Socialist/Communist 'Paradise.' Shame on em.

 

[NightFox]

Ah, the joys of socialism, where everything is free.

Uh-Huh, all the free darkness, hunger and thirst you can handle with an extra helping on Sundays.

"Nothing is more expensive than the free shit government hands out"

 

[SassyIrishLass]

LOL I remember a few years back the left loons screaming the virtues of socialism in Venezuela....poof!!! They done went and ran out of other people's money

 

[NightFox]

LOL I remember a few years back the left loons screaming the virtues of socialism in Venezuela....poof!!! They done went and ran out of other people's money

Bah... Venezuela just did it wrong, don't worry though, the gub'mint worshiping dickheads here in the U.S. will do socialism "the right way".

 

[SassyIrishLass]

LOL I remember a few years back the left loons screaming the virtues of socialism in Venezuela....poof!!! They done went and ran out of other people's money

Bah... Venezuela just did it wrong, don't worry though, the gub'mint worshiping dickheads here in the U.S. will do socialism "the right way".

The problem is it can't be done "right" it's a failed concept and has never worked....and never will

 

[LordBrownTrout]

True leeches of society.

 

[jon_berzerk]

LOL I remember a few years back the left loons screaming the virtues of socialism in Venezuela....poof!!! They done went and ran out of other people's money

I remember a few years back the left loons screaming the virtues of socialism in Venezuela
they quit doing that when pictures of folks standing in line

for miles waiting to be able to get a roll of toilet paper

started to surface

--LOL

 

[LordBrownTrout]

LOL I remember a few years back the left loons screaming the virtues of socialism in Venezuela....poof!!! They done went and ran out of other people's money

Bah... Venezuela just did it wrong, don't worry though, the gub'mint worshiping dickheads here in the U.S. will do socialism "the right way".

Yep, they all say that this time will be different. We need the right people in there. It has never worked.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

LOL I remember a few years back the left loons screaming the virtues of socialism in Venezuela....poof!!! They done went and ran out of other people's money

I remember a few years back the left loons screaming the virtues of socialism in Venezuela
they quit doing that when pictures of folks standing in line

for miles waiting to be able to get a roll of toilet paper

--LOL

LOL Yeah when you run out of TP it's obvious socialism had failed on an epic level

 

[paulitician]

Communism/Socialism sounds good, and looks good on paper. But in practice, it's just forced shared misery. America had the greatest system ever devised and practiced. It's how it became the world's greatest power. It's why so many risked everything to get there. However, that is changing. The Socialists/Communists are on the rise there too.

The U.S. is definitely headed towards becoming Venezuela. And that's very sad. It shouldn't scrap the greatest system ever devised. It works. It's been proven for hundreds of years.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Sir Winston Churchill

 

[mdk]

Socialism causes droughts. Some good ole' fashioned capitalism will make it rain again. lol.

 

[NightFox]

Socialism causes droughts. Some good ole' fashioned capitalism will make it rain again. lol.

correction: Socialism causes failures in water supply management, capitalism fixes the problem.

Just ask the Venezuelan's what they'd prefer at this point:
a.) More Socialism, cause lord knows we're not hungry & thirsty enough and that whole electricity thing was way overrated anyways.
b.) Maybe we should try that free market thingy

 

[mdk]

Socialism causes droughts. Some good ole' fashioned capitalism will make it rain again. lol.

correction: Socialism causes failures in water supply management, capitalism fixes the problem.

Just ask the Venezuelan's what they'd prefer at this point:
a.) More Socialism, cause lord knows where not hungry & thirsty enough and that whole electricity thing was way overrated anyways.
b.) Maybe we should try that free market thingy

You won't get any disagreement from me as Venezuela is a hot mess. Their economy needs diversification.

 

[Moonglow]

LOL I remember a few years back the left loons screaming the virtues of socialism in Venezuela....poof!!! They done went and ran out of other people's money

What government has ever worked in Venezuela?

 

[NightFox]

LOL I remember a few years back the left loons screaming the virtues of socialism in Venezuela....poof!!! They done went and ran out of other people's money

Bah... Venezuela just did it wrong, don't worry though, the gub'mint worshiping dickheads here in the U.S. will do socialism "the right way".

Yep, they all say that this time will be different. We need the right people in there. It has never worked.

Of course, just takes the right people for the job and fortunately American Left Wingers are the BEST left wingers in world since when it comes to taking a bad idea and turning it into an absolutely fucking horrible idea ...

"Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby, you're the best"

So I hope that lays your fears about socialism coming to the United States to rest and ... you're welcome.