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  1. 07-30-2016, 10:27 AM #1
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    Venezuela Celebrates Chavez’ Birthday With $100,000 Cake, While Citizens Starve

    Yeah, ain't Socialism grand, Bern Victims?

    While Venezuelans are crying at the sight of food from hunger, I am crying at the sight of this cake which belongs on Fail Blog with a "nailed it" tag.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-0...ile-citizens-s

    Nothing describes socialism more aptly than baking a 4 feet tall cake weighing 90 kilos for Hugo Chavez’s birthday (a dead man) while the rest of the country starves, cannot find basic necessities



    The cake is a recreation of the “Cuartel de la Montana”, the palace that Chavez famously stormed in 1992 as an army commander to protest Carlos Andres Perez’s government.
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    According to a local newspaper, the following ingredients were used :
    • 720 eggs
    • 23 kilos of butter
    • 90 kilos of flour
    • 90 kilos of sugar
    • 44 gallons of milk



    with the state sponsored food program. Evidently, the government’s priorities are elsewhere.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
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  3. 07-30-2016, 10:29 AM #2
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    Last edited by presence; 07-30-2016 at 10:31 AM.

    'We endorse the idea of voluntarism; self-responsibility: Family, friends, and churches to solve problems, rather than saying that some monolithic government is going to make you take care of yourself and be a better person. It's a preposterous notion: It never worked, it never will. The government can't make you a better person; it can't make you follow good habits.' - Ron Paul 1988

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    ...the familiar ritual of institutional self-absolution...
    ...for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment...
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    Did somebody say cake?
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    They work very hard, and government is a thankless job. /snark
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    It's a symptom of the problem. The cake itself isn't the problem...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucille View Post
    Yeah, ain't Socialism grand, Bern Victims?

    While Venezuelans are crying at the sight of food from hunger, I am crying at the sight of this cake which belongs on Fail Blog with a "nailed it" tag.
    LOL, I had to do a double take. I thought surely, that's not the fancy cake. There's no way in hell I'd eat a cake baked for that man. It's probably got all kinds of $#@! (literally) in it.
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  8. 07-31-2016, 04:20 AM #7
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    Im sorry, but $100,000 isn't $#@! compared to what most oligarchies spend on their lavish, taxpayer funded parties. 100,000 is a fart in the wind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by UWDude View Post
    Im sorry, but $100,000 isn't $#@! compared to what most oligarchies spend on their lavish, taxpayer funded parties. 100,000 is a fart in the wind.
    Oh well in that case...

    I suppose the paltry thousands he's murdered is OK, too... I mean, compared with the tens of millions Mao butchered, not to mention Uncle Joe.

    Nothing to see here. Move along. Four bells and all's well...
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    The Socialist President of France spends $14k on his haircuts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by presence View Post
    Are the normal people allowed to eat it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by William Tell View Post
    Are the normal people allowed to eat it?
    I think they have to walk to Colombia to do that.

    'We endorse the idea of voluntarism; self-responsibility: Family, friends, and churches to solve problems, rather than saying that some monolithic government is going to make you take care of yourself and be a better person. It's a preposterous notion: It never worked, it never will. The government can't make you a better person; it can't make you follow good habits.' - Ron Paul 1988

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    ...the familiar ritual of institutional self-absolution...
    ...for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment...
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  14. 07-31-2016, 10:10 AM #12
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    Cake or death?

    Cake, please!

    Well, we're outta cake!

    So my choice is 'or death'?

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    Quote Originally Posted by osan View Post

    I suppose the paltry thousands he's murdered is OK, too...

    Maduro has murdered thousands?

    How about proof he has murdered 1 person first, dumb ass.
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