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2016-07-30 Caribbean-Latin America

Venezuela's new decree: Forced farm work for citizens

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Posted by Steve White 2016-07-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Ever onwards until the quota is met.
All and everything for The Front!

Posted by Shipman 2016-07-30 01:46|| 2016-07-30 01:46|| Front Page Top

#2 You have to know what you're doing, even with a hoe. Not that it takes a lot of training to, say, weed with a hoe, but you do need to know what's a weed and what somebody will eat.
Although, come to think of it, there may be no difference.
Anyway, a bunch of amateurs is going to mess up more than they produce.
How about decreeing 24 hours of sun per day and no rain 'til after sundown?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2016-07-30 06:34|| 2016-07-30 06:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Shades of Sov. U.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-07-30 06:35|| 2016-07-30 06:35|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm pretty sure I've heard of this before.

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kims of various flavors.

Did it ever work?

Did they ever return?

Posted by AlanC 2016-07-30 07:51|| 2016-07-30 07:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Welcome to the ~~killing~~ fields amigo.

Venezuelan officials indicated that public and private sector employees could be forced to work in the country's fields for at least 60-day periods, which may be extended "if circumstances merit."

Ah, yes, those Donk talking points about mandatory 'public service' they are do fond about come to mind. Again, for the little people.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-07-30 07:54|| 2016-07-30 07:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Coming up eventually will be a decree declaring Soylent Green is not people.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-07-30 08:07|| 2016-07-30 08:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kims of various flavors.

When I was a kid in SU in late sixties, early seventies it was sorta like summer camp.

Did it ever work?
Well, an acquaintance made his first score on one of these trips.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-07-30 08:16|| 2016-07-30 08:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Doesn't North Korea do this too? I expect similar results from Venezuela.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-07-30 09:21|| 2016-07-30 09:21|| Front Page Top

#9 "Grow those eggs, comrades! We need a bumper crop of chamois this year or your term is extended!"

Posted by Frank G 2016-07-30 10:02|| 2016-07-30 10:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Hard for them to revolt if they're all locked up in forced labor camps.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-07-30 13:15|| 2016-07-30 13:15|| Front Page Top

#11 I've always admired the Great Leap Forward, and the streamlining effect upon the general population.
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Posted by OregonGuy 2016-07-30 14:02|| http://oregonguythinks.blogspot.com/ 2016-07-30 14:02|| Front Page Top

#12 The democrat party's platform

Posted by newc 2016-07-30 15:26|| 2016-07-30 15:26|| Front Page Top

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