Maduro: "No more whining, I want solutions comrades!" This is a Mr. Thompson moment! Now that the food has run out, Venezuela has had its Minnesota grain/train moment.

But, but, socialism has never been fully implemented.....(sarcasm)

Maduro said, "No more whining, I want solutions, comrades!"
Me dino has two~
1. Throw off all the shackles of socialism. Adopt open market free trade capitalism unhindered by any Progressive alterations.
2. And if you can't do #1, follow the example of failed yet honorable Japanese military leaders in the past.

Venezuela, an oil rich country, but economically socialist. Its economy is in the crapper and the people are suffering. Gee whiz, who could have seen that coming? And yet, though the evidence is as clear as a 25 cent peep show, they still can't see to include as a remedy a great big hunk of capitalism. Its one thing to be philosophically opposed to an economic system, its quite another to be blinded by cause and effect. So, they think, it cannot be that socialism failed it must be some other reason. It is sabotage is what it is. It is caused by the (you name it) and their scheme to take over the government by starving people. Lets get these scoundrels! __ And, so it goes. You know the rest.We all see the situation clearly, but they don't, or can't allow themselves that everything they have been taught and relied upon as true has now proved to be lies. And they can't admit to themselves that they have been stupid enough to fall for the B.S. of socialism, so they make up hundreds of excuses as to why it failed, none of them true.Bye-bye Venezuela.

This is like Mister Thompson of AS admitting that Directive 10-289 was a failure, and signing an order for its immediate revocation.

It would be as if Mister Thompson acceded completely to John Galt's demands:

"Start by abolishing all income taxes."

"Fire your government employees."

All that's left is the final Stalin solution. That is "Guns and Gulags" on a massive scale.

Fidel Castro also stated that the Cuban communist economic model doesn’t work.

Gee, ya-think?

Last night, watching catch-up of Blue Bloods on Netflix, a rookie cop snagged an illegal from Venezuela, felt bad for doing her job, and was fired for following the rule book.

So far this season has sucked. It might be time for the network to define the end of the series.

No! You're kidding!

Venezuela is a real study of the rise and fall of socialism. It would be a great tv series. As it gets more desperate. It could show us what desperate steps it takes to stay in power

"Boomalay boom on the big bass drum,
Where is the money coming from?
It's used in research, children dear,
For ways to increase the tax next year."
-- Ogden Nash
A certain element of truth, there.
You don't think politician's pockets are lined with lint, do you?

recalling an old movie: "The Mouse That Roared"
Maduro could make a military strike on the US
which would immediately fail and then get money from then US or UN to "reconstruct his vanquished country." Do we still do that?

At least he isn’t giving up on socialism itself. He says all the social protections, at least what’s left of them. Will remain. One day he and socialism will die there

He is asking for a handout to bail out the failed system so it can continue

Send him Milton!

Who knows...maybe a former Venezuelan, now a naturalized American citizen, will become our next Ayn Rand???

Who's for a sequel to Atlas Shrugged?

Is Bernie Sanders or Ms Cortez listening?

What a man; he admits that the socialism instigated by the threat and use of violence has not worked! Now that socialism has proven itself a failure he demands that others need to help him come up with a better socialist plan that is more controlling to get the economy under control; the government needs to own more from the lives of the people and everything will finally get better! No more people starving, not working, this can work! If you eliminate enough people through murder and prisons that kill off the people then the employment percentages will increase because you will have a smaller population base from which to draw workers!

Please, please, please - will someone please ask a Democratic politician, "What do you think of Venezuela?"

From one of the richest South American Countries to one of the poorest. That is not Failure that is Cratering on the order of the meteor impact 65,000,000 years ago.

And, as usual, his socialist solution is more government.

Fools are not impressed. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-6z2...

Poor Maduro is unaware that there is no such thing as successful communist economic model. He did not learn from Soviet and Eastern European history.
He is repeating it like a sheep.