Education is no longer a priority for many poor and middle-class Venezuelans who are swept up in the all-consuming quest for food amid a wave of looting and riots.
Between 30 percent and 40 percent of Venezuelan teachers fail to show up at school each day, mainly because they are standing in lines for food or medicine, their biggest union estimates.
Pupils’ attendance is also dropping because children have not eaten, know there will be no food at school, or must line up and help their parents shop, according to the union.
Frequent power and water cuts are disrupting classes, and schools have been closed on Fridays for about the last two months.
Given the left’s iron grip on modern miseducation, it’s hard to know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Isn’t that what’s supposed to happen to oil nations according to the statists?
Mission accomplished. On to Canada. Their most fervent hope to crush capitalism, and thus prosperity, safety and freedom,in America.
Good show so far. Shared misery (not them of course) is their goal. Fat and happy taxpayers get turned into political road kill; what irony.
If only those peasants would do what they were told, socialism would work so great.
/S
Has Susan Suranndon heard this?
Maybe she’d claim it was all right-wing propaganda.
Golly gee, guess ol’ Abe Maslow was right after all.
Is marijuana legal there? It should take the bite away from the hungry pains. I suspect a good % of the population still blame those nasty business people for their troubles.
“Forget it Jake. It’s Venezuela”
Or
Who cares?
Or
What are you complaining about? Yourvoted for it.
I dunno, maybe someone should ask Sean Spicoli
If they had stayed in villages where they could grow their own food then they wouldn’t be starving. This has happened because the sheeple flocked to the cities, and now can’t feed themselves. Urbanization is the dead end of evolution.
Ah yes, socialism works so well. With its oil reserves Venezuela could be the richest per capita country in South America.
The Reuters video reminds me exactly of what our parents went through as young school children in Russia in the early 1920s while they were experiencing the socialist utopia.
There’s a lot more to it than the failure of socialism.
Compare Cuba and Venezuela.
Venezuela is what happens when socialism is combined with an extremely corrupt self-serving dictatorship.
In some ways Cuba is much better off than the kleptocracy of the corporate welfare state in the US and Canada. Medicine is one example, food and nutrition is another. Poor people in Cuba are much better off than poor people in North America. Litter, graffiti and homelessness are almost non-existent in Cuban cities.
Try google: ‘truth about cuba health care’
One would suspect that he teachers voted for the socialist.
Don’t see that they would have a problem with that.
It is what they wanted.
Ain’t it?
And Matt Damon has their back, if you remember he was complaining that his mom, being a teacher did not make enough money.
Heh, how thing come together.
Ain’t it cool?
Got to tell you one thing though.
Socialist / fascist dictators are so removed from reality, literally and in fact, they have no clue what the population goes through.
The clique that runs them, much like the airhead in Ottawa, keeps them out of the loop, so it is quite possible that they have no clue.
Who else HATES auto-run videos on websites?
Better yet, speak with people who have actually been to Cuba, instead of falling for anti-communist propaganda. For example, they still make their vaccines using the traditional methods we successfully used in the ’50s. Each vaccine is tailored to a specific disease. As a result they have much lower rates of vaccinatable diseases than the US or Canada where the modern multi-diasease vaccines are used. Far fewer negative side effects as well.
“Medicine is one example”. Had an offspring who – on a vacation to Cuba – had occasion to visit a doctor there. Said offspring was appalled at the conditions under which the Cuban doctor had to work, not to mention the really poor salary. It’s one thing to say that doctors and garbage workers are all “workers” under the system; it’s another to ask those who have spent many years studying and working to give good medical care to be paid essentially the same wages as the itinerant worker who has not invested those years of hard work and study.
Cuba’s Cutting-Edge Pharmaceuticals
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/701459011610
Cuba’s health care system is sooooo amazing they beg for expired medical supplies and used textbooks from Canadian tourists. (Google for Not Just Tourists).
Well, it appears that at least one person has swallowed the communist disinformation.
really? I expected better from you than personal insults. disappointing….
sure, Jean, sure. Cuba is just a power house of economic prosperity and Cubans are just so wealthy and happy it makes my heart sing. S/
Amen. If you gave Cubans a choice between staying in their socialist paradise or leaving for Canada or the U.S., there’d be nothing left but skinny donkeys and scrawny dogs.
Jean, the reason you’re being handled at arm’s length is that what you’re saying is the equivalent of a visitor to the southern US 200 years ago hearing slaves singing in the field who then goes home to say loud and proud “those blackies sure do love picking them some cotton.”
Under communism the lives of most people are a lot like the lives under slavery or serfdom, except that the individual (or the land they live on, that defines who owns them) cannot change hands. You’ve rebuffed those who politely tried to disagree with you by suggesting how you can see things from a different point of view by doubling down and quoting (the equivalent of) the slaveowners association noting that slaves don’t starve and get free health care. Go ahead and promote slavery if you want. We will (and do) think less of you for it.
“Poor people in Cuba are much better off than poor people in North America. ”
In Venezuela, they line up for food that isn’t there. In the USA, poor people are fat.
It was not meant as a personal insult. Merely that someone has snowed you big time. You obviously have no experience with the lies that communists peddle. The hospital there for the non-tourist areas are at best cesspools and the common folk do not get that Potemkin village medical attention that visitors see. Do not kid yourself,there are security personnel making sure that the proper narrative is given to visitors.
My wife and I personally saw from the deck of a cruise ship a tramp freighter filled to the gunnels with people leaving that utopian paradise.
C_Miner, thank you for articulating it better than I.
The then leader of the Progressives told them in the debate “math is hard”.
Interesting that they did not catch on.
Maybe the socialist/fascist purposely don’t want the masses to know math since that would mean that they could add up the taxes they have to pay.
They would add up the waste that the Big Brother does with their money.
They would add up to know that the Big Brother is picking their pockets.
If they can’t add up, the Big Brother can do those things and the plebeians would be just as happy.
At least the kids are getting a *real* education on what socialism looks like, now.
No more fairies and unicorns.
Venezuela had all the School lunch programs the progs are putting in here and the U.S.
The collapse in the school system will raise a better breed of non- brain washed self reliant citizens.
objectivity–
Striving (as far as possible or practicable) to reduce or eliminate biases, prejudices, or subjective evaluations by relying on verifiable data.
I’m certainly not claiming that Cuba is a paradise, and the fact that it’s not like Venezuela indicates that it’s not just socialism that’s causing Venezuela’s problems.
Why do you think Cuba is remarkably free of litter, graffiti, homeless drug addicts roaming the streets, young punks beating up people on public transit, etc. like Vancouver, Toronto or almost any North American city?
We should objectively evaluate the successes in other countries and at least attempt to ascertain why they don’t have the problems endemic in our society. n’est-ce pas?
Jean: “not claiming that Cuba is a paradise, & .. that it’s not like Venezuela indicates that it’s not just socialism that’s causing Venezuela’s problems.”
You’re right, socialism couldn’t do all that damage all by itself. It needs help from corruption. But that always results; it goes with the system, without fail. Don’t kid yourself on Cuba. Corruption is not just theft, it’s extreme incompetence that hurts the whole economy and standards of living.
“Corrupt practices also include bribery, misuse of state resources and accounting shenanigans. In its post-Soviet incarnation, Cuba has become a state on the take.”
In Cuba’s so-called “productive” sectors, much wheeling and dealing goes on behind the scenes as state managers swap goods, concoct inventories, fabricate receipts, and deal in imaginary resources. They are aided by an accounting system that equates the Cuban Peso (CP) with the Cuban Convertible Peso (CUC) on paper, though the real exchange rate is 26 to 1. (For example, some official state purchases are made in CUCs while others are made in CPs.) To aid in the confusion, Cuban managers and accountants still track their accounts with paper and pencils. The resulting morass of numbers is so incomprehensible that even “clean” managers are forced to play accounting tricks in order to do their jobs.”
Some state installations are run by de facto “mafias.” One manager of a bread distribution center put his friends in key jobs. He eventually came to control an entire chain of state bakeries.”
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/cuba/corruption.htm
This was written about two years after their “crackdown” in 2011.
much wheeling and dealing goes on behind the scenes as state managers swap goods, concoct inventories, fabricate receipts, and deal in imaginary resources.
…and that is different from the shenanigans of the lieberal govts in Canada and the USSA in what way?
“Why do you think Cuba is remarkably free of litter, graffiti, homeless drug addicts roaming the streets, young punks beating up people on public transit, etc. like Vancouver, Toronto or almost any North American city?” for the same reason that there was no crime to speak of under the rule of Vlad the Impaler. Fear. Which backs up the point that people of Cuba are like slaves who don’t see a change in ownership coming anytime soon.
This is different from the usual hijinks in Canada because the Liberals are corrupt and rob from the public purse to pay their supporters, but they don’t have political prisons which routinely torture their political enemies to death, or celebrate a mass murderer (Che) as a national hero.