A taste of Bernie’s Socialism.
Venezuela’s socialist government ordered public workers on Tuesday to work a two-day week as an energy-saving measure in the crisis-hit South American country.
President Nicolas Maduro had already given most of Venezuela’s 2.8 million state employees Fridays off during April and May to cut down on electricity consumption.
“From tomorrow, for at least two weeks, we are going to have Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays as non-working days for the public sector,” Mr Maduro said on his weekly television program.
Water shortages and electricity cuts have added to the hardships of Venezuela’s 30 million people, already enduring a brutal recession, shortages of basics from milk to medicines, soaring prices, and long lines at shops.
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April 30, 2016 at 8:55 am
[…] Source: Venezuela orders two day work week to save energy […]
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April 29, 2016 at 10:31 am
I remember during an “Energy Crisis” some years back when our local gas and electric company was telling people to turn their thermostats down and to use extra blankets and wear more clothing in cold weather to save on electricity and fuel. But the corporate profits of the utility companies never went down did they? Socialism always lives better at the top of the heap than at the bottom despite all their claims of shared reward and shared responsibility. There always elitists no matter what and Socialism is one of the worst … and people in America are actually considering trying it out for themselves this time around? Give me a break!
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April 28, 2016 at 12:41 pm
We should be a kinder country bunker. They don’t even have toilet paper for crying outloud. I say that we send them lots of bags of rocks and sticks instead of TP. The turd is going to take them back several centuries at this pace.
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April 28, 2016 at 12:57 pm
So far they are Catholic. We are lucky. They kicked out our energy companies and took over. This is what they have. Sitting on all that oil wealth.
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April 28, 2016 at 1:10 pm
Oil isn’t worth what it was when they were borrowing money, is it? Being Catholic is meaningless. They are a country run by the religion of thievery and lies. I would say that most of Latin America is run the same way.
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April 29, 2016 at 10:32 am
Toilet paper? They can be like some of the Mid Eastern countries and use their bare left hands.
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April 27, 2016 at 7:10 pm
And this is what the left is striving for…
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April 27, 2016 at 7:11 pm
Of course if we are working less we will be depending on the government for more and that is the ultimate goal.
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April 27, 2016 at 9:28 pm
Make us totally dependent. Something for nothing. Yea, really has worked out swell in the past.
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April 29, 2016 at 10:33 am
The problem with that argument is that nobody works less than the government. They get all the perks and the big salaries and they are barely ever on the job.
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April 28, 2016 at 1:11 pm
Yes. somehow that lecture on socialism was missed that day in class.
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April 27, 2016 at 6:50 pm
Well, if the adopt a Muslim cultural technique they can save a lot on toilet paper.
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April 27, 2016 at 9:29 pm
So if they go Muslim they won’t miss the paper!!
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April 27, 2016 at 11:06 pm
Childhood deprivation. Never knew of or had a Sears and Roebuck Catalog. 🙂
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April 29, 2016 at 10:34 am
Now you know why I am so careful about where I buy my donuts!
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April 27, 2016 at 5:27 pm
Yes … Communism is a great system.
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April 27, 2016 at 5:53 pm
Yes indeed…. a once prosperous nation full of oil goes down the tubes.
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April 27, 2016 at 9:28 am
I’m writing in an independent running for 2016. Did you study up on all those running for pres, or only the few wrapped up in MSM drama? I like Andy. We are from WA. We’ve got Starbucks, Microsoft, and legal weed in WA and our consciousness screams for a higher leader. andy2016/proposals
The rest is up to you to learn about and make your decision based on all running for leader, not just who the establishment delegates as PIC.
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April 27, 2016 at 5:54 pm
Good luck with it. See how Hillary works out.
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April 27, 2016 at 8:52 am
Maduro should pass a law that his people must hop rather than walk since doing so would mean less steps taken and thereby cut down on their carbon footprints which we all now know causes global warming, the most pressing issue on the planet -ask Bernie, Hillary, Obama and the socialist leaders of western Europe- and by doing so the cooling Venezuela and the electricity saved by lower air conditioning use would solve the energy crisis, the drought, el Nino, government corruption, socialism, failing economy, hatred of america, over eating, out of wedlock pregnancies and the price of oil. Viva las socialistas!!!
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April 27, 2016 at 9:12 am
IF they start to hop, the country might tip over. One of my early blogger friends, Jim, from Conservatives on Fire lives there, and haven’t heard from him in over a year. They could be a very rich country with all the oil they had revenue from. But much stolen by Chavez daughter I read the other day.
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April 27, 2016 at 9:20 am
Yes. I often wonder myself what may have happened to Jim? As for Venezuela we know that socialism is doing there what socialism does best everywhere it is tried, destroying economies and destroying people; for their own good of course.
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April 27, 2016 at 9:25 am
I don’t understand why people can’t look at history and understand the future.
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April 27, 2016 at 9:26 am
P.S. Jim at times changes his header on his blog, had snow flakes at Christmas so….but no posts.
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April 29, 2016 at 10:35 am
Give everybody a pair of hyper-lubricated-bearing roller skates and power them with flatulence (The human jet stream a.k.a. “Farts.). LOL
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