Dozen Eggs Cost $150 Hyperinflation Horrors Hit Socialist Utopia (death, Sanders, border)

[petch751]

Venezuela's "Death Spiral" - A Dozen Eggs Cost $150 As Hyperinflation Horrors Hit Socialist Utopia

Today, a once comfortable middle-class Venezuelan father is scrambling desperately to find his family's next meal -- sometimes hunting through garbage for salvageable food. The unfortunate 75% majority of Venezuelans already suffering extreme poverty are reportedly verging on starvation.

Severe shortages of food, clean water, electricity, medicines and hospital supplies punctuate a dire scenario of crime-ridden streets in the impoverished neighborhoods of this nearly failed OPEC state, which at one time claimed to be the most prosperous nation in Latin America.

Venezuela's "Death Spiral" - A Dozen Eggs Cost $150 As Hyperinflation Horrors Hit Socialist Utopia | Zero Hedge

[golimar]

This is sweet music to a Democrat.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJBjjP8WSbc

[PCALMike]

Good thing things are so well in other "non-socialist" countries in the region like Haiti, Honduras and Nicaragua then. I am sure Venezuela was amazing in the 1990s. These countries switch between various types of corrupt plutocracies and call themselves whatever they want. These labels are meaningless.

[Nepenthe]

Originally Posted by golimar

This is sweet music to a Democrat.

Nice false dichotomy there from Mr. Sanders. So your choices, according to Sanders, are either A) long breadlines or B) starving to death.

Good insight into the mind of a resolute authoritarian, who can only view the world (left and right) through the lens of authority and control.

Here's another good ZH article: Socialism - the World's Greatest Poverty Generator

[Snowball7]

b.s.

don't bother with zero hedge, they are sensationalists..

31 milllion people in Venezuela, I'm sure lots of them ate eggs today.

here's your real news.

Non-Aligned summit set to back Maduro in Venezuela

[Nepenthe]

Originally Posted by Snowball7

don't bother with zero hedge, they are sensationalists.

Okay, here's some WaPo:

Venezuelans are storming supermarkets and attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle

Venezuela’s democratic façade has completely crumbled

Venezuelans are so desperate they are streaming over the border to buy food

Venezuela’s death spiral is getting worse

Emaciated pets abandoned as Venezuela's recession continues

[engineman]

All countries need term limits.

[Frank DeForrest]

I wonder what bernies take is on this?

[cruxan]

Originally Posted by Nepenthe

Okay, here's some WaPo:

Venezuelans are storming supermarkets and attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle

Venezuela’s democratic façade has completely crumbled

Venezuelans are so desperate they are streaming over the border to buy food

Venezuela’s death spiral is getting worse

Emaciated pets abandoned as Venezuela's recession continues

If not already, Soon they will be eating those dogs^^

[d4g4m]

I guess this mean the $3.99 breakfast special is no longer available?