This is Why Communism Doesn’t Work

As Venezuela continues to spiral into abject poverty driven by leftist thugs, people begin to starve. Meanwhile, the remaining infrastructure of private property and services is targeted to be shut down. Me? I think its hilarious.

From Reuters here:

Shoppers in oil-rich Venezuela often can’t find basic food items in stores but the government of President Hugo Chavez on Sunday turned up a huge stash of milk and chicken in a private health clinic.

Supposedly, the products had been illegally diverted from a chain of state-run subsidized grocery stores, which sell primarily to poor Venezuelans who form Chavez’s support base.

The clinic will face fines for violating an anti-hoarding law Chavez passed last year and a possible criminal investigation.

Chavez has repeatedly complained that private clinics charge too much for services and has threatened to take them over.

Chavez has won broad support from the nation’s poor by using oil revenues to finance social programs, but his supporters are increasingly complaining about food shortages, rampant crime and poor trash collection.

Milk and chicken spoil in a couple of days. How convenient that the food showed up at a medical clinic that the government hates. Now maybe that milk and chicken will show up at a bank that the government hates, and then at a news station that is critical of Chavez. It would be the chicken and milk Venezuela tour of ’08. Meanwhile, the leftist bastards that put the madman in power can go on and starve.