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Traveler

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The citizenry all starves together. Take note Democrats.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/world/americas/venezuelans-ransack-stores-as-hunger-stalks-crumbling-nation.html?_r=0
 

Steve

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Sugar fields in the country’s agricultural center lie fallow for lack of fertilizers. Unused machinery rots in shuttered state-owned factories. Staples like corn and rice, once exported, now must be imported and arrive in amounts that do not meet the need.


It has not always been clear what provokes the riots. Is it hunger alone? Or is it some larger anger that has built up in a country that has crumbled?

Inés Rodríguez was not sure. She remembered calling out to the crowd of people who had come to sack her restaurant on Tuesday night, offering them all the chicken and rice the restaurant had if they would only leave the furniture and cash register behind. They balked at the offer and simply pushed her aside, Ms. Rodríguez said.
“It is the meeting of hunger and crime now,” she said.

I can understand hunger. But I can never understand the destruction that goes hand in hand with protests, or should I say riots.

few Christians would condemn a person for taking meager food to feed his/her family, but the senseless destruction is so unneeded.

often it is other hard working folk who are the victims of that destruction of property.
 

Brad S

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Interesting how consistently hunger follows expansion of the state and prosperity follows contraction of the state. How can "educated" people miss this universal dynamic?
 

Steve

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Brad S said:
Interesting how consistently hunger follows expansion of the state and prosperity follows contraction of the state. How can "educated" people miss this universal dynamic?


same as liberals missed many of the other inconvenient facts.
 

Traveler

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Steve said:
Sugar fields in the country’s agricultural center lie fallow for lack of fertilizers. Unused machinery rots in shuttered state-owned factories. Staples like corn and rice, once exported, now must be imported and arrive in amounts that do not meet the need.


It has not always been clear what provokes the riots. Is it hunger alone? Or is it some larger anger that has built up in a country that has crumbled?

Inés Rodríguez was not sure. She remembered calling out to the crowd of people who had come to sack her restaurant on Tuesday night, offering them all the chicken and rice the restaurant had if they would only leave the furniture and cash register behind. They balked at the offer and simply pushed her aside, Ms. Rodríguez said.
“It is the meeting of hunger and crime now,” she said.

I can understand hunger. But I can never understand the destruction that goes hand in hand with protests, or should I say riots.

few Christians would condemn a person for taking meager food to feed his/her family, but the senseless destruction is so unneeded.

often it is other hard working folk who are the victims of that destruction of property.
I think it's what happens when their sense of entitlement isn't met. At that point they have very little dignity or sense of right and wrong, anyway.
 
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