Cristy Li

“Feel the Bern” — Cuban’s Have Been Dying Trying to Escape It
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(Nasdaq) Million of pounds of provisions stuffed into three dozen 747 cargo jumbo jets arrived into oil rich Venezuela Caracus from countries around the world to service its starving economy but instead of food and medicine, the aircraft carried another resource that often runs scarce, bank notes of Venezuela currency, the Bolivar.

The shipments were part of the import of at least 5 Billion bank notes that Venezuelan President Nicola Maduro’s administration authorized over the latter part of 2015 as the government boosts the supply of the country’s increasingly worthless currency.

In January, Bloomberg reported that the Intl Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that Venezuela hyperinflation, already the worlds highest will more than double to 720% this year from 275% last year, according to a note published by the IMF’s Western Hemisphere Director Alejandro Werner — Spiking prices and widespread shortages for staples have driven discontent in Venezuela.

“A lack of hard currency has led to scarcity of intermediate goods and to widespread shortages of essential goods–including food,” Werner said. “Prices continue to spiral out of control.”

What economic genius is going to gut the bad parts of Socialism and usher into the United States a so called ‘Democratic Socialism’ utopia Bernie Sanders — The one time Vermont columnist who penned a disgusting article in 1972 fantasizing about masturbation and rape of Women?

Is this the best the Democrats have to offer America in 2016?  The choice between one old Vermont Socialist who Honeymooned in the Soviet Union in 1988 writes George Will during the final years of the Cold War and a life long Democrat political opportunist Hillary Clinton Tweeting praises to her friend Burmese Democratic-Socialist Aung San Suu Kyi, whose political party won a super-majority in its legislature last year.

God help us.

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