Jim Morin for February 23, 2014

Have you tried the Illuminati?

Barry fans just blame Bush for all their failures.

I think the crisis in Venezuela should be of special interest to all those occupy idiots who kept demanding a redistribution of wealth.

This is the ultimate demise of every Socialist economy.

Main thing is that Maduro continued the worst parts of Chavez’ policies without the relatively good bits, or the smarts Chavez had.

Heh Adrian – Try reading a Newspaper once in awhile. The Venezuelans are getting tired of the shortages. Shortages produced by people unwilling to work and take risks because they know the State will rob them of their efforts.

Where-ever you have weak property protections (Warlords, Communists, Socialists) you have lower productivity and eventually shortages.

You may not like conservative posts but you can’t possibly be thinking that if you ignore the situation it just won’t matter to your liberal bubble.

Venezuela was doing fine as long as oil was in high demand. Then along comes fracking which allows the US to become very good at producing their own oil again. The price of a barrel declines and Chavez can’t get enough cash to pay for all those social programs his supporters demand.

This is a warning for the rest of us as well. Oil is entirely fungible and will go where the cash to pay for it is. If Venuzuela has a major strike, the price of oil and then Gas will go up. Look for $4 and $5 gas come summer.

Somebody ran out of their Dr prescribed greenery today.

Yeah, and they learned from bush, who blamed everything on Clinton. Who had left him peace and prosperity, both of which bush threw away on 9/11.