25 Replies to “How Deep, Señor Maduro?”

  1. That communist Maduro was a bus driver ?
    Well at least he had a job,unlike that cockroach Karl Marx who never worked a day in his life.

  3. Have some Maduro, m’dear. You really have nothing to fear.
    I’m not trying to rule you, that wouldn’t be right,
    You don’t need to vote, when we’re in such a plight.
    Have some Maduro m’dear. It’ll make everything nicer here.
    I don’t care for Yankees, democracy’s out,
    Individual freedom we can all do without.
    It’s simply case of droight de seigneur.
    Have some maduro m’dear.
    (Apologies to the Limelighters)

  4. From The Guardian: Nicmer Evans, a political analyst:
    “We are facing a real and deep economic crisis. Ruling by decree allows the president to do in months what it would take the assembly years,” said Evans. “It has none of the parameters of socialism. It is [a return] to normal capitalism because it is not normal that Venezuelans pay 1,000% over price.”
    So, the message is that when total collapse occurs, it will be capitalism’s fault. Got it.

  5. “Enabling Act”, “National Emergency” Where have we heard that before? No doubt he would have preferred to have a fire engulfing the national assembly, but the arsonists sent to get matches were probably stuck too long in the line up to buy them.

  6. I’m convinced that Maduro and the like could take a child’s lemonade stand, bankrupt that and then hold the entire neighbourhood hostage.
    It’s like communist dictators have missed some kind of vocational calling. Where they may have been passable wall painters or something, they buggered up entire economies.
    HOW?!

  8. Flanders and Swann recorded a terrific version of that song as well.

  9. Song originally by Flanders and Swan. The Limeliters really popularized it, though, and have great renditions.

  11. So when are the Ontario border signs going to be changed to: Welcome to Ontario, Venezuela of the North?

  12. Watching Venezuela these days is like reading Atlas Shrugged for the third time.

  13. Señor Maduro is really going to have to give himself a good thrashing – possibly even send himself to jail or a year or so.
    After all, he is responsible for the mess.

  14. NEVER … and I mean NEVER !! put someone in charge of MORE than they have the intellectual capacity to understand. This bus driver doesn’t understand Business Admin. 101. He knows nothing of wealth or how it is created. He knows nothing of natural resources. He knows nothing about human resources. He knows nothing about managing wealth. Most of us have learned by 10yo about saving for a rainy day (such as the worldwide collapse of oil prices) … but bus driver SPENT and SPENT and STOLE more $$$$$$ than his economy could ever support. Now his Socialist nirvana looks like the same old shhhhhitttthole as every other Socialist nirvana (see: Greece, Brazil for eg.). So now, the BLAME comes. Blames “capitalism”. Which is like saying you blame the sky for raining. Idiot. I feel for his people … until … I realize THEY voted these mental midgets into power. Then I just shrug and say ohhhhhhhh mammmmmmmmaaa …

  15. In times like this, how come there’s never a “Che” type to mount a revolution against the corrupt leader,overthrow the SOB and form a new and enlightened government that will serve ALL the people?
    Oh, yeah,I guess that was the original intent of the bastards who put Chavez and Maduro in power in the first place.
    I wonder if Stephen Harper would agree to form a guerilla band in the outback of Venezuela and pester the hell out of the commies for a while.
    But who’d back them?
    Nobody.

  17. How could it keep happening in Venezuela? Well, have you ever tried to convince a true blue, er, RED NDPer about how terrible the party is/was, in any given jurisdiction?
    I’ve had some hilarious conversations with Dippers, regarding the BC Dips, when they got slaughtered 77-2 in 2001. The dyed in the wool commies will ALWAYS blame others, the media, a right wing conspiracy, etc, etc, for what happened.
    Didja know the Dips had the best GDP in the country under the NDP?
    Didja know they had a great job creation record?
    Didja know they ran small deficits?
    Didja know that they got slaughtered in the election anyways, or depsite their grandiose claims?
    They always cherry pick their facts, without a Big Picture review of the economy. BC was a mess with the Dips, out migration was at an alltime high, home prices were in steep decline and real incomes were in decline too. Things the NDP would never tell you. Oh and yeah, their so-called balanced budget? It was based on a onetime transfer from the public pension fund to the gubmint budget, ncie slight of hand manouver.
    The commies will always double down on their agenda. Just watch Rachel go!

  18. Isn’t that why young Turdeau admires the Chinese so much? So much easier to rule that way.

  19. I can’t speak for Wretchard T Cat but I can guess why he’s posted this today… that the changes sought during the time of Presidential Decree (given to him by their legislative assembly) weren’t enough to stave off the inevitable decline that has taken place. It has been sped up substantially by the decline in petrodollars flowing into Venezuela, but it would have happened at some point in the medium future, (3-6 years?).
    The real value of the Venezuelan currency..
    https://dolartoday.com

  21. ‘Humanity consists of billions each of whom must hold up his tiny corner of the sky. ‘
    I really like that quote. At least something good came from that article.

  22. Venezuela should be so lucky. Mussolini actually was able to get the Italian economy hitting on a few cylinders, at least.
    Maduro’s role model is Pol Pot.

  23. Wretchard AKA Richard Fernandez of Belmont Club is a daily read.
    Unfortunately it is a often times depressing daily read, as he cuts through the BS and relates the trends to the big picture and also history.

  24. I recollect the theory being put ‘out there’ that Marx needed to keep busy whilst he enjoyed the warmth and shelter provided by the library in jolly ol’ England where he set up shop.
    ergo, an economic theory based on robbing everyone to pay paul or whatever.

  25. While I liked the message Atlas Shrugged was trying to teach…I found it boring and long-winded. Then again…I find most women writers to be very long-winded (no matter how important their message is). I prefer Bernard Cornwell. Many of his stories revolve around characters who were born in inopportune circumstance…yet by hard work, daring, intelligence (and violence) they rise far above the station society had “reserved” for them.

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