Story from CNBC. (H/T Barb’s Blog)
Excerpt:
Mountains of rotting food found at a government warehouse, soaring prices and soldiers raiding wholesalers accused of hoarding: Food supply is the latest battle in President Hugo Chavez’s socialist revolution.
Venezuelan army soldiers swept through the working class, pro-Chavez neighborhood of Catia in Caracas last week, seizing 120 tons of rice along with coffee and powdered milk that officials said was to be sold above regulated prices.
[…]Critics accuse him of steering the country toward a communist dictatorship and say he is destroying the private sector.
They point to 80,000 tons of rotting food found in warehouses belonging to the government as evidence the state is a poor and corrupt administrator.
Jose Guzman, an assistant manager at a store raided in Catia, watched with resignation as government agents pored over the company’s accounts and computers after the food ministry official and the television cameras left.
“The government is pushing this type of establishment toward bankruptcy,” said Guzman, who linked the raid to the rotten food scandal. “Somehow they have to replace all the food that was lost, and this is the most expeditious way.”
Well, the best way to get control of the people is to create an artificial shortage so that they depend on the government. It’s like passing a carbon tax, or instituting a moratorium on drilling – you reduce supply and then take control when the people get angry.
Who Chavez remind me of?
Oh yeah.
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WINTERY KNIGHT 
Your essay is awesome, and I say this somewhat self-referentially because I have published several essays that finished with the same photo of Obama and Chavez – one of the most amazing and revealing wretched bits of evidence against our dictator-loving president.
But this particular pictorial essay will really pump you up and make you laugh, and I offer it to you in particular with pleasure:
http://wp.me/pMW8w-hP
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Sounds like communist Russia all over again under Lenin and then Stalin. Food shortages, innocent citizens accused of hoarding, raids by gov’t officials, etc., etc.
Socialism has never worked and now look at what it’s doing to Venezuela. Socialism leads to communism which leads to starvation, death, suffering, and destruction. Hmmm, some utopian paradise.
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