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[–] 4478220? 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

*Unwelcome symptom of trying to start an economic war with the United States just as the price of your only valuable good drops

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[–] YoungerX 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

The crashing oil price is the nail in the coffin for Venezuelan socialism.

I have enjoyed following the story since early in Chavez's reign. It wasn't all bad, more than a million people were taught how to read. But they always had a problem with the price of basic goods and inflation.

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[–] fagnig 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The Planned Economy Works!

Disclaimer: So long as the oil prices remain sky high.

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[–] myth2sbr 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

Or when your governor is Chris Christie.

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[–] PlasmaDistortion 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Toilet paper is old news. Now they can't even buy food.

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[–] TheDude2 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

That solves the need for more toilet paper.

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[–] Ruthven 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago  (edited ago)

It's also an excellent metaphor for socialism.

Keep up the downvotes leftards!

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[–] BoiseNTheHood 4 points 5 points (+9|-4) ago 

Socialism will never be "executed properly." Economies can't function without resources being allocated in a rational manner, and that is only possible under capitalism and free markets.

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[–] fagnig 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Can we stop pretending that socialism in general is a bad thing, if executed properly. Venezuela is just another thinly veiled and extremely corrupt dictatorship, nothing more.

What Socialist states, ones without a capitalist economic system, have been a success?

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[–] twitch1982 6 points -1 points (+5|-6) ago 

Right? look at how often Britain, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Iceland, and Norway run out of toilet paper. There's also varying degrees of socialism, Venezuela actually had government ownership of the means of production, very different from anything being proposed in America or any currently "socialist" state.

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[–] TheDude2 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago  (edited ago)

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425800/bernie-sanders-socialist-success-sweden

Have you seen parts of Sweden lately? Apparently Socialism works when you attach it being Nationalistic.

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[–] EdSnowden 5 points 1 point (+6|-5) ago 

Feel the bern

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[–] gosso920 ago 

Toilet paper shortage is par for the course in Socialist countries.

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