re: Venezuela overtakes Haiti as poorest country in western hemisphere

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Good. I hope the Marxists starve to fricking death.

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That's not how Marxism works. The actual Marxists are the last to starve. Everyone else gets to "fair share" themselves to starvation before the Marxist goes hungry.

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From NPR - Proving my point

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So those who are paid in petrodollars — opposition business people or political elites from the ruling socialist party — can afford to eat here.

"There are people for whom this is the best of times, because things are very cheap and people can go out to dinner every night," Smilde says. "The rest of the country has no chance of affording a place like this."

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I ask Smilde why so many things are scarce in Venezuela right now. He blames years of price controls, subsidies and artificial currency controls.

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The result, Smilde says, is the worst crisis in Venezuela's modern history.

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