First Venezuela's socialists ran out of toilet paper, then medicine, then food...and now?
As Democrat politicians constantly, enthusiastically tell us how wonderful socialism is, socialist Venezuela chalks up yet another milestone of its ghastly descent into misery, poverty, starvation and disease:
The capital city has only intermittent running water.
Caracas--a city of 3 million--is about 3000 feet above sea level, and most of its water is pumped from lower sources. But with the efficiency that characterizes all socialist systems, maintaining the critical water pumps was near the bottom of the priority list. The socialist government was spending most of the country's oil revenue on other things, like scotch for top officials, and the water system managers eventually used all their spare parts.
Socialist president Maduro’s administration ignored warnings that the system desperately needed new spare parts to keep running. The former head of the state-run utility in charge of the city's water system explained that “For many years this deterioration wasn't noticeable. But now the water transport systems are very damaged.”
And as a result, in recent months many residents don't have regular running water. In addition to the obvious problems, lack of water has triggered health concerns--particularly since Venezuela has very few supplies of antibiotics and no money to buy more, since any such medicines must be imported.
Unsurprisingly, the socialist government typically says problems with water service are due to "sabotage by right-wing terrorists.”
Intrigued, we asked a dozen leaders of the Democrat party how they would solve this problem. Here are some of the responses we got:
The capital city has only intermittent running water.
Caracas--a city of 3 million--is about 3000 feet above sea level, and most of its water is pumped from lower sources. But with the efficiency that characterizes all socialist systems, maintaining the critical water pumps was near the bottom of the priority list. The socialist government was spending most of the country's oil revenue on other things, like scotch for top officials, and the water system managers eventually used all their spare parts.
Socialist president Maduro’s administration ignored warnings that the system desperately needed new spare parts to keep running. The former head of the state-run utility in charge of the city's water system explained that “For many years this deterioration wasn't noticeable. But now the water transport systems are very damaged.”
And as a result, in recent months many residents don't have regular running water. In addition to the obvious problems, lack of water has triggered health concerns--particularly since Venezuela has very few supplies of antibiotics and no money to buy more, since any such medicines must be imported.
Unsurprisingly, the socialist government typically says problems with water service are due to "sabotage by right-wing terrorists.”
Intrigued, we asked a dozen leaders of the Democrat party how they would solve this problem. Here are some of the responses we got:
- Democrat senator (and the favorite to win the party's presidential nomination in 2020) Kamala Harris: "The U.S. should offer to buy Venezuela's entire cocaine crop, for $2 Billion. That would enable the country to buy as many new pumps as needed from our friends in Mexico.
- Dem/socialist Bernie Sanders: "If water is short, pass a law requiring all residents to catch rainwater and pour it into the city reservoir. After all, the essence of socialism is community effort."
- Democrat speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: "Letting those poor people suffer from a lack of water is a crime against humanity! They need to do what we do here in Northern California when global climate change cuts rain: drink wine."
- Democrat rep Maxine Waters: The fact that Trump hasn't already ordered the U.S. military to ship millions of gallons of water to Venezuela is a crime against humanity! It's one more reason to impeach fody-fi!
- Wildly popular new Dem representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "Their president just needs to order the people who run the water system to fix it. It's so obvious!"
- Dem senator Elizabeth Warren: "My people have always lived in harmony with nature, so when they needed rain they'd do a rain-dance. It always worked."
- Dem senator Chuck Schumer: "This is Trump's fault! My sources in the intel community tell me Trump sent SEAL teams to Venezuela to sabotage the pumps. The only way to solve this is to get rid of Trump and Pence and elect a good Democrat."
- Former Dem presidential candidate Hilliary Clinton: "I know exactly how to solve that problem, but I can't tell you. But I'll tell Maduro. Tell him to email me."
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