Sultan Knish: Venezuela, a failing socialist state, has gifted its people with the sixth minimum wage hike in one year. The 150% increase last week won’t help too much because inflation is up to 1.7 million percent.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Minimum wage hikes don’t help when your currency isn’t worth the cost of the paper it’s printed on. That’s literally true in Venezuela, which has tried switching to an even more worthless cryptocurrency.
Forget the #Fightfor15, in Venezuela it’s a fight to afford basic food supplies or even a cup of coffee.
The cost of a cup of coffee rose 285614% in a year and doubled in seven days. Under the new currency, you can grab a cup of the good stuff for 400 bolivars. Too bad that the minimum wage is 4,800 bolivars and 90% of the population is impoverished. It isn’t looking to buy a cup of coffee, but is starving because it can’t actually buy food. Alternatives have included eating zoo animals, pets and wild donkeys.
“Juntos: todo es possible”, the Obamaesque slogan of the regime declaring, “Together, anything is possible”, looms over a frightened starving population from billboards decorated with socialist icons.
The trouble is that anything really is possible. It’s possible to starve to death, to sit in the dark because there’s no power, to be unable to go to work because there’s no fuel, to be killed in food riots by government thugs, to have your savings wiped out, or to die of a treatable illness because there’s no medicine. Socialism has made “anything” possible in Venezuela. But all the possibilities are horrifying.
The regime’s other election slogan was, “Vamos Venezuela”. And Venezuelans are going. more here
h/t Forcibly Deranged .
Well, they can kill ya and they can cook ya, but they can’t make you taste good.
Minimum wage hike in Venezuela? Now THAT”S funny! lol
Minimum wage hike in the liberal parts of USA? That’s sad! 🙁
Perhaps we can send Missing Cortex and Bernie down in an advisory capacity. Venezuela will be enriched and the natives might find them “Delicious”.
The only thing that will end the misery is regime change. Now that Putin is propping up Venezuela, the populace is in for a very long bout of misery.
The regime’s other election slogan was, “Vamos Venezuela”.
They really need to teach history there.
Vamos original definition is “your F’ed”.
Crematoriums in Venezuela no longer reduce the remains to ashes as in the past. The operators now take requests with the choice of rare, medium rare, and well done.
Gee Wally, even Nikita Khrushchev said: “We will bury you!”
Destroy the left before they destroy us.
“Birds gotta eat, same as worms.”
– J. Wales, 1865 –
Could it be otherwise?
“There is only one minimum wage – Zero.”
(Sowell)
A phony philosophy in a phony country. Venezuelans need guns more than they need money (of which there seems *SEEMS* plenty).
But, if memory hasn’t failed me, Venezuela has been through this shit 3 or 4 times in my life – and has learned absolutely nothing. And I’m sure that the average (?) Venezuelan isn’t a moron – they just appear to be collectively moronic. May be a lesson in there.
izlamo delenda est …
Does anyone remember when Vice President Nixon’s motorcade was mobbed by a large bunch of rioting, angry Venezuelans in Caracas in April 1958 during a good will tour of Latin and S. America. They didn’t like us then and they still don’t like us now, what else is new. If it wasn’t for oil they would’ve never been anything more than a 3rd world shithole and they squandered that under socialism. Nixon was also lucky to escape with his life because that mob was pissed at US policies towards Venezuela.
@Tim December 27, 2018 at 8:23 am
> May be a lesson in there.
Says every en-titled American, “Nope”.
I know – – let’s invite them to live here then we can become a shithole too!
Yeah, starting with the 1000 they released into NM and TX thanks to libtard fed judges.
I was digging through TP USA’s website last night because they’ve just had their last conference for 2018, their annual Student Action symposium in Florida a week ago, and the speaker roster was impressive. Made me want to be back in high school — to be able to hear all those speakers in one place.
In the course of looking at some of the videos, I happened across Charlie Kirk’s “Greatest Hits” in which he shuts down the indoctrinated Leftist (college aged) audience members’ arguments in favor of socialism. Here for your viewing pleasure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK6apLq6B-s
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