Ain't Socialism Grand?
 

Don't know about y'all, but I can't wait for the full US conversion to Socialism. :rolleyes:

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,2210473,00.html]Venezuela scrambles for food despite oil boom[/url]

[quote]Welcome to Venezuela, a booming economy with a difference. Food shortages are plaguing the country at the same time that oil revenues are driving a spending splurge on imported luxury goods, prompting criticism of President Hugo Chávez's socialist policies.
Milk has all but vanished from shops. Distraught mothers ask how they are supposed to feed their infants. Many cafes and restaurants serve only black coffee.

Families say eggs and sugar are also a memory. "The last time I had them was September," said Marisol Perez, 51, a housewife in Petare, a sprawling barrio in eastern Caracas.

[b]Government price controls on staple foods are so low that producers cannot make a profit, they say, and farms and businesses hesitate to invest in crops or machinery, or stockpile inventories, for fear of expropriations.[/b]
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Are you sayign you actually believe that politicians will try to institute a command economy?

This has been the scene of Venezuela and Chavez for years. People live in shacks with nothing to eat and all of the sudden Chavez as his men show in Black Denalis with a box of chicken gizzards and pigs feet. Praise Chavez!