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In reply to the discussion: Venezuela to create new workers militia [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)Venezuela is not a desert or a hopelessly barren rocky country. It has rain, trees, soil, people. From which to make TP, butter, milk, etc. in whatever quantities are needed.
There should be no shortage in a country, socialist, communist or otherwise, of such basic goods. Americans don't have to import these goods. Why is Venezuela doing so?
A system of government and society that isn't manufacturing its necessities is terribly out of balance. I have asked this a couple of times.
Personally, I liked Chavez. He definitely was not perfect, and Venezuela is not the USA in culture, education, opportunity, religion and whatever. But it's not a desert.
Why the heck are these things being imported? Why were they not being produced in a socialist country, where one expects full employment and making those things are good employment?
Do Venezuelans all work in the oil industry and disdain doing agricultural work? What is going on there?
This is very disappointing to hear of this going on, it makes no sense in what is supposed to be a country organized to take care of its people.
The situation cannot be blamed on globalists or the USA. Is the idea that foreign countries are preventing Venezuelans from exploiting their own bounty of nature for themselves?
They've had land reform. The oil industry is nationalized, which is a good thing. I find these figures of shortage to either be wrong - or else there is something wrong with Chavez or now Maduro's government
Please chime in, those with an opinion...